Kurdish People In Blackboards

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The portrayal of the Kurdish people is evident in both films Blackboards by Samira Makhmalbaf and Journey to the Sun by Yeşim Ustaoğlu. Both films show the struggles and sufferings that the Kurds go through for example not having a belonging and brutality from government authorities (police, border patrol, etc.). The films also contrast in the sense of relationships between the Kurdish and Turkish, the community of Kurds differs, as well as the difference between Turkey, Iraq, and Iran in regards to the Kurdish people. Blackboards and Journey to the Sun show how Iran, Iraq, and Turkey marginalize their Kurdish population culturally, politically, and regionally. One way of the marginalization was coming from the government authorities. For