In this seven-part series Bram Vermeulen travels through Turkey - From Istanbul to the sparsely populated mountains in the east; from the closed borders of Armenia to the open southern borders shared with neighboring Arab countries - observing the rapid changes in a country that has a renewed fresh confidence.
In Turkey, was awarded the Special Award Discourse and Politics at the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards 2011 in Vienna.
EPISODE 1: The Father of the Turks
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk swept together the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and founded the modern Republic of Turkey in 1923. His reforms were a revolution in all respects: he replaced Sharia law with European laws, separating religion and state, exchanged the Arabic script for the Latin.
Thus he made the big difference between Turkey and the Middle East. Ataturk's been dead 72 years and although Turks stubbornly stick to his ideas, his legacy is under pressure.
© VPRO First publication: 27 march 2011
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Produced by VPRO, The Netherlands
Presentation: Bram Vermeulen
Direction/Editor in Chief: Stefanie de Brouwer, Doke Romeijn
Camera: Erik van Empel, Jackó van 't Hof
Sound: Bert van den Dungen, Rik Meier
Research: Yilmaz Akinci, Mahmut Kaya, Emran
Küçük, Somnur Vardar
Production: Judith van den Berg
Editing: Matthieu Hes en Obbe Verwer
Colour correction: Gerhard van der Beek
Sound Mix: Rob Dul
Music: Wouter van Bemmel
translation: Emran Küçük, Halil Ozpamuk,
Fatih Yüksel, Nian Bakal, Beriwan Khalil
Special thanks to: Alex Booy, Huibert Boon
English, French and Spanish subtitles by Ericsson and co-funded by the European Union.
