
Diyarbakır ya da Sodom'un 5 No'lu Zindandaki Bin Günü
I watched a movie... and I was shocked to the bone by how much what happened in the movie, what was "constructed", was so similar to what "happened".
This 1975 film, directed by Pierre Pasolini, based on Marquie de Sade's book The 120 Days of Sodom or The School of Debauchery, which caused a great sensation when it was published in 1904, is about the fascist groups established by the Nazi occupation forces in Northern Italy between 1943 and 1945. It takes place in the Republic of Salo (Italian Social Republic).
The events described in the film took place between 1981 and 1983, during a period that the people living in Diyarbakır Military Prison No. 5 described as the "period of brutality", lasting approximately a thousand days... That is, in the Republic of Esat Oktay Yıldıran...
I wonder if those who designed Diyarbakır Prison No. 5 as a political-social experiment center had watched this movie? If they have not watched it, this must be a terrible example in terms of understanding the universal understanding of fascism in degrading the human personality.
Diyarbakır Military Prison No. 5 was more than just a prison, it was a special "laboratory of violence" aimed at destroying the political, ethnic and sexual identities of prisoners and humiliating them into submission. What was experienced here was such that it would challenge one's imagination... A small part of these experiences were written in the book you have in hand; from the bodies and memories of the living...
Publisher | : | Footnote |
Number of pages | : | 134 |
Publication Year | : | 2022 |
ISBN | : | 9786057414397 |
The heart | : | Turkish |