Ertuğrul Mavioğlu is a Turkish journalist. He worked at a number of

newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ...

s and

television network A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television show, television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or ...

s for 30 years. From 1980 to 1991, he spent eight years

imprisoned Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is considered " false imprisonment". Impri ...

for political reasons. He received two awards from the Progressive Journalists Association. He is also a

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

maker and co-created the film ''Bakur'' (Turkish for "North") in 2015 together with

Çayan Demirel Çayan Demirel (born 1977, Istanbul) is a Kurdish film director best known for his documentaries about the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. His film ''Prison Number 5 (1980-1984)'' on the Diyarbakir prison won several awards and he was prosecuted for ...

. The film was used as evidence to prosecute him under the

Anti-Terror Law of Turkey The Anti-Terror Law of Turkey (ATL), Anti-Terror Act of Turkey (ATA) or ''Terörle Mücadele Yasası'' (TMY) in Turkish, is a nation-wide law in Turkey that was written in 1991 to strongly criminalize acts of terrorism. Background The ATA was ...

. He has stated that “Any

propaganda Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded l ...

one can find in this film would be propaganda for peace.”

External links

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Bakur
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Q & A with Ertuğrul Mavioğlu
on YouTube

References

Living people Turkish film producers Turkish dissidents Turkish human rights activists Turkish television journalists Turkish male journalists 20th-century Turkish male writers 21st-century Turkish male writers 20th-century Turkish journalists 21st-century Turkish journalists Turkish people imprisoned on terrorism charges Year of birth missing (living people) {{Turkey-journalist-stub