A story that the national press wouldn't touch: a campaign of ethnic cleansing perpetrated against Kurdish minorities by the Turkish military, using US-made weapons. This independently produced film - nine years in the making - delves deeply into the US's complicity in this human rights disaster, indicting the mainstream news outlets that, by staying quiet, helped perpetuate the violence. Shot, in part, by three-time Academy Award winner Haskell Wexler, Good Kurds, Bad Kurds travels from Santa Barbara, home to a small Kurdish refugee community, to Washington D.C., where an activist struggles to gain the attention of lawmakers and the media and fight his deportation, and to Turkey, where the anti-Kurd campaign continues.
Produced and directed by Kevin McKiernan.
Presented by ITVS.
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For more information on the Kurdish minority in Turkey, please visit Human Rights Watch.
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