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Article: TALKING TURKEY.(filmmaker Kutlug Ataman makes a movie on inhabitants and Kurdish people named 'Kba')
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- WWD
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- May 19, 2006
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Byline: Suna Erdem
ISTANBUL - Turkish artist and filmmaker Kutlug Ataman is used to creating an outcry - especially in his own country.
His most recent contemporary artwork, the Carnegie Prize-winning film "Kba," about the inhabitants of an outsider's shanty town, was criticized by Turkish nationalists as propaganda for the Kurdish minority. Ataman, though, says he only wanted to tell the stories of the fascinating individuals - by no means all Kurdish - who lived there.
"I came across this neighborhood in Istanbul and decided that they had interesting stories and decided to broadcast them," Ataman says simply. "Here are young people with a lot ...