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Evrim Alataş

Evrim Alataş

First Kurdish female script-writer in Turkey
"From now on I want to do everything faster."

Date of Birth: 15/04/1976 1976

Place of Birth: Gölpınar Village, Akçadağ, Malatya

Date of Death: 12/04/2010 2010

Place of Death: Diyarbakır

Burial Site: Gölpınar Village, Akçadağ, Malatya

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Evrim Alataş

Field of Activity

Script-writer
"I want to talk about the first Curdish political film Min Dit - The Children of Diyarbakir. I wrote the script together with my cousin Miraz Bezar. He told me about his experiences and I told him about mine and then we combined the two to make something new. Miraz was brought up in Germany and he really wanted to make a film about the conflicts. And he managed it. With local men and women acting, with limited resources and with children traumatised by the war. It is the story of Diyarbakır, which would only be recognised by those who had experienced it.
The way the film came about was an interesting process for us. There were unexpected reactions from unexpected places. The period in which the film takes place made us reflect about previous Curdish films. Our film tells the story of two children who lost their parents during the fightings.
The first showing of the film took place in Spring 2009 in Diyarbakir. At the 46th Altın Portakal Film Festival in Antalya it won the Behül Dal special jury award."
Evrim Alataş
Evrim Alataş, „'Min Dît' ve sahipsizlik", Taraf, 8.4.2010.
Evrim Alatas as Journalist

Evrim Atalaş worked as reporter and editor for the newspapers Yeni Politika, Demokrasi, Özgür Bakış, Ülkede Özgür Gündem, wrote columns for the newspapers Evrensel Gazetesi, Birgün, Özgür Politika, Radikal İki (supplement of Radikal) and Taraf.

Evrim Atalaş' articles was published also in the socialist magazine Birikim, the anarchistic magazine Siyahi, the feminist magazine Amargi and also in the Curdish magazines Esmer and Tiroj.

Publications of Evrim Alataş
  • Biz Bu Dağın Çiçeğiydik, İletişim Yayınları, Istanbul, 2010.
  • Her Dağın Gölgesi Deniz'e Düşer, İletişim Yayınları, Istanbul, 2009
  • Mayoz Bölünme Hikayeleri, Aram Yayınları, Diyarbakır, 2003

Awards

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Memberships

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Education

Primary School, Gölpınar Village, Akçadağ, Malatya

Middle School, Gölpınar Village, Akçadağ, Malatya

Contributions to Society

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Family and Friends

  • Mother:İsaf Alataş
  • Father:(No information available)
  • Sister: Mukaddes Alataş
  • Marriage: Fikri Kutlay (doctor)
  • Uncle: Teslim Töre
  • Friends: Kemal Ulusoy (actor), Gülten Kışanak (woman journalist, woman politician), Osman Baydemir (politician), Mikail Arslan (artist), Yıldırım Türker (journalist), Selami İnce (journalist), Yasemin Çongar (woman journalist)

Commemorative Projects

İLEF Evrim Alataş Award Against Discrimination

Since 2011 The Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Ankara (ILEF), has awarded an ILEF Evrim Alatas Prize

The winner of the ILEF Evrim Alatas Prize is chosen each year by the students of Ankara University who attend the seminars on Discrimination. The student group choses a journalist who uses non-discriminating language, who throws light on cases of discrimination or who develops new strategies against discrimination and thus contributes to changes in society.

In 2011 this award was given to the journalist Yıldırım Türker.

Further Reading

Sources

Quoted Sources:
  • See the "Further Reading" section

Source of Visual Images:
Translation into English: Çetin Alanya, Istanbul, Turkey
Editing: Lyndall von Dewitz, Oberasbach, Germany
©2012 Meral Akkent
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