Banksy denounces the turkish censorship

After an attempted of putsch in Turkey in 2016, Erdoğan government has reduced freedom of expression and silenced several alternative voices: journalists, editorialists, artists … Regardless of this, a conflict opposes for several decades Anatolia to the Kurds. Zehra Doğan was a paintress and reporter for a pro-Kurdish news agency. Since September 2017, she is serving a sentence of 2 years and 9 months. His fault? To have drawn a Turkish military operation against the PKK (a radical Kurdish movement). Her painting reproduces a photograph on which we see Turkish flags placed on the rubble of a Kurdish city. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*kUQAvUFm_1tEAWgiembSOw.jpeg" style="height:750px; width:450px" /> <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*AOj-GRQiemNUI0v4tBTkIw.jpeg" style="height:613px; width:551px" /> To denounce this condemnation, Banksy has, once again, invested a wall of New York, in collaboration with the street-artist Borf (John Tsombikos, who himself was even sentenced — to a lesser extent — for tagging in the street). Together, they painted traits that count Zehra Doğan’s days of imprisonment and symbolize prison bars. These ones become pencils for the cell of the Turkish paintress, represented looking outward. Bottom right, an explicit message: FREE ZEHRA DOĞAN. <a href="https://medium.com/stephaniethrt/banksy-denounces-the-turkish-censorship-dbd85a6dd7e6">Visit Now</a>