In A New Wave of Defiance, Turkey’s best-known contemporary writer in English – Kaya Genç – reviews two politically outspoken films that examine Erdoğan’s regime, Yellow Letters (Sarı Zarflar) by Ilker Çatak and Salvation (Kurtuluş) by Emin Alper, which won awards at the recent Berlinale film festival: Since the violent crackdown on the Occupy Gezi protests of 2013, an uncanny hush has dominated the … Continue reading Turkish Cinema: Dissenting Voices Recognized at Berlinale →