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30 Years with Kardeş Türküler
Detail
  • Director Çayan Demirel - Ayşe Çetinbaş
  • Producers Ayşe Çetinbaş, Gökçe İnce
  • Director of Photography Koray Kesik
  • Project Coordinator Tülay Dikenoğlu
  • Editing Özcan Vardar, Tatlıhan Tuncel, Erhan Örs
  • Advisors Berke Baş, Can Candan, Uğur Yeşiltepe, Somnur Vardar

Our documentary is a feature-length project that tells the musical and political journey of the ‘Kardeş Türküler Project, which started within the Boğaziçi University Folklore Club in 1993… in a way a chronicle of“togetherness”, children, women, trees, rivers, a fraternity of cultures and languages that cannot be divided by borders. Not only languages, but history, culture, poetry, writers and artists meet on the stage: Hrant Dink, Neşet Ertaş, Reem Kelani, Sezen Aksu, Arto Tunçboyacıyan, Sayat Nova choir, the list goes on… So this movie, brings forward for the first time the 30-year old story of Kardeş Türküler as they navigate and reflect with their music the political and social realities of the recent history of Turkey.