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Today's Zaman, Turkey
Sept 5 2014
`Museum of shame' to be opened by Çankaya Municipality
The inauguration of the fifth edition of the `Museum of Shame,' an
exhibition featuring documents and images from the 1980 military coup,
will be opened at the Çankaya Municipality Contemporary Arts Center on
Sept. 12.
The exhibition, which commemorates the bloody events of the 1980 coup,
will be open to visitors until Sept. 23. The opening will take place
after a black wreath is placed before the US Embassy in Ankara. The US
is widely considered to be behind the coup of Sept. 12 in 1980 in
Turkey.
The bloodstained clothes of the assassinated journalist Abdi Ä°pekçi,
the pullover of revolutionary student leader Mahir Çayan and some
belongings of Kurdish protest singer Ahmet Kaya will be displayed in
the exhibition for the first time.
In a briefing to the press, on behalf of the Revolutionary 78ers
Federation Mehmet Ã-zer stated that that the event will take start at 5
p.m. on Sept. 12 after a march to the US Embassy of Turkey to lay the
wreath.
Noting that the slogan for year's event will be `Freedom and Hope are
still alive' Ã-zer said that the spirit of Gezi protests will be
commemorated by the items on display in the exhibition. Underlining
that the event will contribute to the collective memory of the Sept.
12 coup and other incidents Ã-zer further mentioned that the exhibition
will feature sections of photographs under the titles of `Code Name
301,' `Roboski,' `Rojava' and `The Letters of Mamak.'
Ã-zer said that the stalls on which Deniz GezmiÅ?, Hüseyin Ä°nan and
Yusuf Aslan were executed will also be exhibited.
He mentioned that the exhibition will feature movie screenings and
panel meetings besides the images. The panels will be held under the
titles of `Grieving the Armenian's History,' `The child prisons must
be closed,' `Rojava's Woman Revolution,' `Migration and Health,'
`Freedom to the Patient Inmates,' `Sept. 12 and Alevis,' and `Filistin
My Love.' Furthermore a movie called `Goodbye Tomorrow' will also be
screened.
In the museum that will be inaugurated by Çankaya Mayor Alper TaÅ?delen
the goods of the deceased in the Roboski Masacre, the clothes of a
revolutionist martyr UÄ?ur Kaymaz and photographs collected from all
over the Turkey during the Gezi protests will be displayed said Ã-mer.
https://www.todayszaman.com/national_-museum-of-shame-to-be-opened-by-cankaya-municipality_357837.html
Sept 5 2014
`Museum of shame' to be opened by Çankaya Municipality
The inauguration of the fifth edition of the `Museum of Shame,' an
exhibition featuring documents and images from the 1980 military coup,
will be opened at the Çankaya Municipality Contemporary Arts Center on
Sept. 12.
The exhibition, which commemorates the bloody events of the 1980 coup,
will be open to visitors until Sept. 23. The opening will take place
after a black wreath is placed before the US Embassy in Ankara. The US
is widely considered to be behind the coup of Sept. 12 in 1980 in
Turkey.
The bloodstained clothes of the assassinated journalist Abdi Ä°pekçi,
the pullover of revolutionary student leader Mahir Çayan and some
belongings of Kurdish protest singer Ahmet Kaya will be displayed in
the exhibition for the first time.
In a briefing to the press, on behalf of the Revolutionary 78ers
Federation Mehmet Ã-zer stated that that the event will take start at 5
p.m. on Sept. 12 after a march to the US Embassy of Turkey to lay the
wreath.
Noting that the slogan for year's event will be `Freedom and Hope are
still alive' Ã-zer said that the spirit of Gezi protests will be
commemorated by the items on display in the exhibition. Underlining
that the event will contribute to the collective memory of the Sept.
12 coup and other incidents Ã-zer further mentioned that the exhibition
will feature sections of photographs under the titles of `Code Name
301,' `Roboski,' `Rojava' and `The Letters of Mamak.'
Ã-zer said that the stalls on which Deniz GezmiÅ?, Hüseyin Ä°nan and
Yusuf Aslan were executed will also be exhibited.
He mentioned that the exhibition will feature movie screenings and
panel meetings besides the images. The panels will be held under the
titles of `Grieving the Armenian's History,' `The child prisons must
be closed,' `Rojava's Woman Revolution,' `Migration and Health,'
`Freedom to the Patient Inmates,' `Sept. 12 and Alevis,' and `Filistin
My Love.' Furthermore a movie called `Goodbye Tomorrow' will also be
screened.
In the museum that will be inaugurated by Çankaya Mayor Alper TaÅ?delen
the goods of the deceased in the Roboski Masacre, the clothes of a
revolutionist martyr UÄ?ur Kaymaz and photographs collected from all
over the Turkey during the Gezi protests will be displayed said Ã-mer.
https://www.todayszaman.com/national_-museum-of-shame-to-be-opened-by-cankaya-municipality_357837.html