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Şehbal Şenyurt
Bülent Arınlı
Şehbal Şenyurt, Umut Baltan, Koray Kesik
Etyen Mahçupyan, Dilek Kurban
Derya Demirler
Dilhun Ekmekçi
Ethem Dural |
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Relationship between the state and its citizens is discussed in the documentary through non-Muslim foundations, which has been a highly debatable subject in Turkey. The story of the state’s seizure of non-Muslim foundations’ properties with a legal application started in 1974 is told.
While the memories about the lives of Turkish and Armenian neighbours, the houses of whom were dissolved with this application are refreshed, lawyers discuss about the unfair legal applications. Presidents of Armenian, Greek, Jewish, Assyrian / Chaldean foundations display the effects of these applications on their societies. Othering feeling created on the citizens by this human rights problem is stressed.
Documentary considers the narratives of the people, who experienced these problems, unfair practices experienced by non-Muslim people in Turkey; property tax, September 6-7 incidents, exiles in 1964 and incidents like the murder of Hrant Dink and the backgrounds of the problems of foundations.
“Since 1960s, the state has seized hundreds of immovable of non-Muslim foundations, management of these foundations and properties owned by them. The first policy was grounded on the Declaration of 1936 and the second one to the application of “registered foundation.” While some of the properties seized are hold by General Directorate of Foundations and Minister of Treasury and Finance, some others were sold to third parties. Foundations’ Law, which was launched in 2008, anticipates the return of some immovable hold by the state, however it does not anticipate any compensation for the assets sold to third parties.
Community foundations, which have been conducting educational, medical, religious and social institutions of non-Muslim citizens since the period of Ottoman, try to make churches, hospitals, rest homes, primary schools and high schools sustain without receiving any financial support from the state with their own resources. Seizure of the management and property of these foundations make them deprived of the financial resource non-Muslims need for the continuation of these institutions and endangers the future of these institutions
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