Le cinéma politique et engagé turc

Abstract

This article is about Turkish political cinema. The cinema, which began with the authorization of the state during the fall of the Ottoman Empire, did not have an important political role during the construction of the Kemalist Republic. In the 1950s, it entered its golden age in pro-American Turkey. At the end of the 1960s, especially in the lead years (1970), political cinema was used on several occasions as part of the ideology of the far right and the revolutionary left. After the violence of the military coup of 1980 he remained rather cynical and disengaged. Political interpretations represented the Kurdish question on several occasions during the democratization process of the 2000s. In recent years, with the pressure of political power and the distribution market, it has been rather in a phase of political zigzagging.