8 Turkish Video Activists You Don’t Want To Miss
Against all the goverment media censorship and social media blackouts, there are too many video activists in Turkey. After the media shutdown at 2013 Gezi Park protests, video activists undertake a great task: To film every scene of the Gezi Park protests. Actually, video activists change the roles with Turkish mass media. They are coming from different news collectives and telling different stories of Turkey.
1-Barikatın Arkası / Behind the Barricade
World’s Best Molotov Shootouts
At their youtube channel they always shooting videos from hot spots from the protests.
2-Fatih Pınar
Don Quixote Social Center — A Story of the first occupied house in Turkey
A video journalist from Turkey. Fatih Pınar shooting videos from different culture groups of Turkey. He tell the stories who cannot speak. In their videos he shoots especially marginalized people from Turkey.
3-Dokuz 8 Haber / D8 News
Ankara Bombing Scenes Taken By Dokuz 8
Dokuz 8 is a news collective and citizen journalism model of Turkey. Dokuz 8 was established after the Gezi Park protests and there are a lot of citizen journalists in their crew.
4-Seyri Sokak
Tuzluçayır/Ankara Protest
Seyri Sokak is a video news collective mostly located in Ankara. Videos based on activist incidents and protests.
5-Güray Ervin
Tin Can Money
Güray Ervin is working as a video journalist at Al Jazeera Turk. He tells stories about Turkish unknown characters. Like a tin can seller in the middle of nowhere…
6-Öğrenci Kolektifleri
A Super Mario Game At Anadolu University
Öğrenci Kolektifleri is a student union solidarity. Based on problems of the students at Universities.
7-Kazım Kızıl
The Tree of Eternity: The Yirca Resistance
Kazım Kızıl is a documentarist and a freelance video journalist. He shoots short documentaries about ecological problems of Turkey.
7-Soydaner Gündoğdu
Soydaner is amovie director, documentarist and a freelance video journalist. He shoots about people, places and events. He has also a warzone journalist history in his career.
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