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İlhan Sami Çomak

Nascimento : , Karlıova

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İlhan Çomak (born 1973) is a Kurdish poet from Karlıova in Bingöl Province. In 1994, Çomak was studying at the University of Istanbul when he was arrested being associated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). He denies the charges against him and he eventually confessed to the charges under torture. In jail, Çomak has released eight books of poetry and become one of Turkey's longest serving political prisoners.

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Posted by: İlhan Sami Çomak

Himself

The story puts İlhan Çomak at the center, even though he is not physically present in the film. It focuses on the 21 years that İlhan spent in prison and his family’s experience of those years without him. The narrative is constructed through the letters İlhan wrote and aims to describe his life, his emotions and longings. The film constructs İlhan’s history through a chronology in the prison but refrains from restricting it only to a “prisoner’s quest for justice”, and rather tells a story of the situations he finds himself in over the years and his emotions and their equivalents in life.