On the anniversary of the death of director and actor Yılmaz Güney, Habertürk writer Nagehan Alçı joined the debate on violence against women that started over actress Farah Zeynep Abdullah's comment.
Alçı claimed that Güney was “targeted because he is Kurdish”.
Stating that he had been following the debates in Libya, where he had gone to follow the floods in Derna, Alçı argued that in the current situation, the reason for the criticisms against Güney was his ethnic origin.
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In his post on the X platform, he said, “What is written against him about violence is true. These have been written many times,” Alçı said, adding, “But in this conjuncture, the reason for the attack campaign against Güney, which started with Farah Zeynep, is that Güney is Kurdish. This is the essence of the matter.”.
Right now, in Haftar's Libya, I am watching the discussions on Yılmaz Güney. What is written against him about violence is true. These have been written many times. But in this conjuncture, the reason for the attack campaign against Güney, which started with Farah Zeynep, is that Güney is Kurdish. This is the essence of the matter.
- Nagehan Alci (@Nagehanalci) September 17, 2023
Fatih Altaylı: Yilmaz Güney is a murderer
Journalist Fatih Altaylı reminded once again in his column in Hürriyet 23 years ago, when this debate started, that “For me, Yılmaz Güney is a murderer who destroyed Turkey's image in Europe and did it for his own interests.”.
Altaylı wrote as follows:
“An interview in Hürriyet Sunday. The subject is Yılmaz Güney.
The pages explain that Yılmaz Güney had to flee abroad because he was denied the opportunity to make movies in his country, that he was a great filmmaker and a man of thought, and that he was forced to leave Turkey for this reason.
Güney's life was going to be made into a movie. İnci Aral was writing the script. I have no objection to the movie, but I object to what İnci Aral said. Since new generations don't know what Yılmaz Güney was, they keep writing this hype.
Yılmaz Güney is a woman-beating, intellectually weak, macho man.
A man who beat his first wife Nebahat Çehre, a man from whom Çehre escaped.
The fact that he escaped from prison and went abroad has nothing to do with ideas.
He's a killer. He's a killer.
He shot the judge of Yumurtalık at the drinks table.
There is no political aspect to it.
A common murderer. Then he escaped from prison and created a political façade for himself to survive abroad.
It's like he's a thought criminal.
İnci Aral, who wrote the screenplay, never mentions this murder in the interview. She refers to it as ‘the Yumurtalık incident! The so-called Yumurtalık incident is omitted because it would reveal Yılmaz Güney as a simple murderer.
Facts are distorted to create a myth out of a woman-beating murderer.
For me, Yılmaz Güney is a murderer who destroyed Turkey's image in Europe and did it for his own benefit.
It is the legacy of Yılmaz Güney that still plagues us in Europe today...
The rest is bullshit”
Ümit Özdağ Yilmaz Güney is a divisive punk
Zafer Party Chairman Ümit Özdağ also made controversial statements about Yeşilçam actor Yılmaz Güney in a broadcast.
Here are Ümit Özdağ's statements about Yılmaz Güney:
“Yılmaz Güney is a man who shot and killed an unarmed judge on a movie set just to bully him. A man who beat women. A complete lumpen punk. But not only that, he is also a separatist who actively works for the division of the Republic of Turkey. He doesn't hide this either, there are already speeches. If you say you are an Atatürkist and you love Yılmaz Güney, it means you don't know Yılmaz Güney. If you know these characteristics and say you are an Ataturkist, you are not an Ataturkist.”
What happened?
On the anniversary of Yılmaz Güney's death, writer Murathan Mungan said: “This is the 37th year of Yılmaz Güney's death. Besides being a good director, a good actor, a good screenwriter, he was the best walking man of our cinema. No one has ever again been able to touch the farthest part of our hearts while looking sadly with his neck slightly bent to the side like him.”.
Responding to Mungan on social media, Farah Zeynep Abdullah said, “Let's say he is the best walking man of our cinema shjs and beats women and uses rich and effective weapons in terms of types of violence.”.
Yılmaz Güney's family reacted to these statements and said, “We will use all our legal rights.”.