Karin: The journey of a minority para-athlete
Karin is a documentary about the life of a minority para-athlete from Turkey‘s Armenian community. Despite facing new challenges after moving to Istanbul, Karin…
Middle East (West Asia)
Middle East (West Asia)
Ana: A Journey of Resilience and Resistance in Istanbul’s Alevi Community
Ana is a film about Sevim Yalıncakoğlu, a 43-year-old accountant who leads a congregation of Alevi people in Okmeydanı, an…
Anybody Hear Me: A short film that Explores the Endangered Kirmancki Dialect of Kurdish and its Impact on Generational Connections
‘Anybody Hear Me’ is a poignant film about the Kirmancki language of Kurdish, which is at risk of linguistic endangerment. Spoken mostly by elderly…
The devastating impact of the recent earthquakes on Turkey’s minorities
On 6 February 2023, 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes occurred at 04:17 hrs and 13:24 hrs respectively, centred on Kahramanmaraş,…
Making the invisible visible
By Anna Alboth, Media Officer at Minority Rights Group Europe ‘Statelessness is often referred to as an invisible problem, because…
Music Beyond Borders: A short film about anti-Kurdish discrimination in Turkey
Join us in exploring the powerful story of a banned language and a silenced culture. This short film takes you…
Towards an anti-discrimination law: strategies and opportunities in Iran
Faced with the unyielding political terrain in Iran, a space to protest, advocate and rethink the country’s trajectory has been…
Language discrimination in Iran
According to UNESCO, every two weeks one language disappears and at least 43% of the 6,000 spoken languages in the…
EVENT: Statelessness, watercolours & ink – Zahra Marwan – An MRG Sofa Talk
Zahra Marwan is the winner of last year’s UN International Art Contest: Minority Artists Working on Statelessness Themes. She was…
Latest updates regarding minorities in Turkey – December 2022
The MARC bulletin is a bi-annual publication produced by a network that aims at documenting, monitoring and promoting minority rights…
