My Life as a Turkey

Son Darbe: 28 Şubat

12 episodes documentary about Turkish political history focused on period between 1993 and 2002.

2012

Turkeys for Xmas

Feathered friends prepare to meet their fate in this seasonal newsreel outing to a Norfolk turkey farm.

1915

Öcalan and the Kurdish Question

Kurdistan, partitioned between Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, could play a major role in a torn Middle East. But who are the Kurds? What influence do t

2015

Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity

Fragmentary perspectives on Human Rights and transgender (trans*) People in Turkey. What remains at the place where a murder happened? What constitut

2015

Atatürk, père de la Turquie moderne

2023

Girls' War

As the forces of ISIS and Assad tear through villages and society in Syria and Northern Iraq, a group of brave and idealistic women are taking up arms

2016

Visitors at the Door

Are we alone in the universe? This question has been preoccupying humanity for decades. Today, people don’t believe in extraterrestrial life. But ther

2018

İHA'nın Arşivinden 17 Ağustos 1999 Depremi

2022

Cyprus 1974: Landing For Peace

On the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation, TRT World revisits the island's turbulent history and asks: Is there still hope for reconciliat

2024

Mon père, la révolution et moi

A documentary tragicomedy of a father-daughter relationship, told by the subjective perspective of the young director. She tries to understand how a r

2013

My boy, look at the stars

February 28 is Deniz Gezmiş's birthday… He would have been 75 years old today; but it only lived for 25 years, and in those 25 years, it had an impact

2012

Afganistanbul

2018

Köy

KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for home, for belonging and the freedom of the self. Three women from three generations are united by t

2022

Byzance

Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Ch

1964

Istanbul

All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it was, not just as it is at the precise moment that P

1964

Maître Galip

Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompany a series of evocative images

1964

Golden Horn

La Corne d'or is mostly concerned with religious ritual, examining the mosque (and former cathedral) discussed in Byzance. As a contrast against Istan

1964

Pehlivan

Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a thousand years to the time of the Ottoman Empire, o

1964

Bosphore

Short doc by Maurice Pialat. The first film in the series set at Turkey, Bosphore, is also the only one that was shot in color.

1964

Der Jungfrauenwahn

For young Muslims who live in a free society, how is the culture of origin of the parents compatible with their own wishes? What significance does the

2015