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Article: Turkish cinema turns a corner. (Mosaic).(Kurds represented in motion pictures)(Critical Essay)
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- The Middle East
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- February 1, 2002
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Jon Gorvett and N Buket Cengiz report from Istanbul
It is 28 years since the word "Kurdistan" was shown, scrawled across a wall in director Yilmaz Guney's classic film, Yol -- a scene which promptly got the film banned from Turkish cinema screens until 1999.
These days, cinema-goers in Turkey are spoilt for choice over which film focusing on the -- formerly taboo -- Kurdish issue they should watch. And all of the choices feature a language that for years carried harsh prison sentences for publishing or broadcasting in it -- Kurdish.
"If this were three years ago," says director Handan Ipekci, whose film Big man, small love, won four Golden ...