Intercultural Dialogue Platform (IDP), along with Solidarity with Others, will present “Purge Museum” exhibition and “The Noose” documentary screening on April 9 at Brussels Press Club.
Purge Museum is a collection of objects which witnessed the massive government crackdown targeting more than half a million followers of the Gülen movement in Turkey.
Looking through the lens of these objects, the exhibition reveals individual or collective stories persisting after a destructive persecution of hundreds of thousands.
Turkey has detained some 500,000 people and sacked nearly 140,000 public servants over the alleged Gülen links. Each person added another heart wrenching story in that pile of tragedy.
Prior to exhibition visit, the victims of Turkey’s crackdown, now being refugees in Europe, will offer their accounts in detail.
The exhibition can also be visited at the Press Club from April 9 till April 12, 2019 between 08:30 and 19:30.
The Noose is a documentary produced by Greek journalist Thomas Sideris on Turkey’s regressing democracy.
As a project launched in June 2016, the documentary mainly focuses on oppression the Turkish journalists has been facing.
“The Turkish government is putting a noose on press freedom, free speech, human rights and democracy,” Mr. Sideris concludes.