Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Turkish Rights Group Turns to Art to Represent the 'Disappeared'

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Human rights groups in Turkey blame the state for hundreds of disappearances dating back decades as the military wages a war against separatist rebels of the PKK. Those rights groups are also turning to artists such as Anil Olcan to call attention to the victims of enforced disappearances. Olcan spent a year capturing images connected to the disappearances. He painstakingly superimposed photographs of the missing onto small marble columns. “Marble is associated with death,”...

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