Çayan Demirel

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Award-winning filmmaker Demirel was sentenced in 2019 to nearly 5 years in prison for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” after screening Bakur, a film he co-directed with Ertuğrul Mavioğlu, in a mostly Kurdish-populated province during the Turkish-Kurdish peace process. He was sentenced to 2 years and 1 month in prison in December 2023.