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AKP Chairman and Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the Grand Presidential Awards Ceremony for Culture and Art held yesterday at the Presidential Palace. Speaking at the ceremony, Erdogan listed the characteristics of the “artist he has been waiting for.”
WHAT DID ERDOĞAN SAY?
Erdogan said he was living in a time when art theories collapsed, definitions of art changed, the art environment changed, and art thefts hit the face.
“In this era, our country will not only present new works to the world, but will also lay the pillars of future art theories. As our artists act with this understanding, the poet’s decree that “He is part of the earth and they do not know the world” will lose its validity. We are waiting for that artist. The artist we are waiting for will know his world with his identity, he will be himself first and will express his cause with his art. The artist we are waiting for will show his time and energy with the works he has produced for the good of the world, while doing his art he will surpass his peers in the world.
The artist we were waiting for will shake the charts of the world with his song as a cry against cruelty and injustice, and will change the universal understanding of music. The artist we are waiting for will not try to show himself shouting slogans, and his achievements will be applauded in the most magnificent halls in the world. The artist we are waiting for will have his name written in the history of art with an artistic style that he creates himself or an art form that he invented.
The artist we are waiting for will show his finger by what he produced, and will drag everyone behind him with his style. The artist we were waiting for will bring the agenda to the world instead of being carried away by the agenda, he will enter the record book with his performance and create an artistic fashion with his style. The artist we are waiting for will produce his own art instead of despising the nation he belongs to and constantly complaining. The artist we were waiting for will show his opposition not with the political controversies that he launches from his social media account, but with the art that flies. “
ATATÜRK’S RESPONSE TO ERDOĞAN’S WORDS
The artists’ reactions to Erdogan’s words are as follows:
Genco Erkal:
“He wants a clown, not an artist.”
Onur Aydin:
“Teachers; All can be deputies. You can be a minister or even a president. But you can’t be an artist. ‘ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk “
Nejat Yavaşoğulları:
I do not agree with the saying ‘he despises his people’. Personally, I do not do folk songs or Turkish Classical Music, but I do not despise my people, on the contrary, I am a person who always tries to make products from where I am, not changing the style of music that I will always make myself that I care about. I think it is more useful for my people, maybe it opens horizons for them, maybe it makes them find other thoughts. We never despise our people like me and my other friends, we are already in the people. It is not possible to participate in this. “
Ataol Berhamoğlu:
“It is not correct that no ruler gives fatwa on artists like this, it is not such a thing. The artist does what he does, sometimes he complains, sometimes he praises, sometimes he gets angry, he rejoices. You are not given a directive that says ‘so be it, so be it’, it’s wrong from the start. Regarding the subject of complaints, I do not understand that, “The artist will necessarily object”, something like this is wrong. The artist is free. Your free spirit does everything you tell it to. But you can’t direct the artist. “
Levent Üzümcü: Actor Levent Üzümcü was one of the names who reacted to Erdoğan’s definition of an artist. The highlights of Üzümcü’s speech, which was connected to the public television broadcast, are as follows:
“THEY WAIT FOR AN INTERESTING NATURAL ARTIST, SOMETHING LIKE THE MESSIAH”
“From what I understand, they expect an interesting artist. I hope you find the artist you are waiting for, that artist is coming. This is how I understand something like Christ. I am trying to do my art as much as I can. For example, the state theater performed hundreds of times, described trying to play in various places in Turkey’s Your Story Download game.
I cannot enter and play in any province where they have governorates or municipalities of the city, and I do not say bad words in the game. I don’t say bad words and there is nothing to worry about personalities. But some police chiefs or mufti offices are deciding that I can’t play that game there. Who supports these people? What political phenomenon do these people support? It should look like this for a moment. I am trying to do my art. 3-5 people like me try to make their art.
“THE PRODUCERS ARE SIGNING THE DOCUMENT IN FRONT OF THE CRITICISM”
“As I am not one of the actors who affirmed with firmness that they would not criticize their political party and the political movement they made, so as not to alter their personalities, I cannot find a job on television. Because the producers said: ‘People who criticize this political oddity don’t act in our dramas. If we can’t play them in our series, it doesn’t matter which series it is from. But if someone uses the reputation he gained there to criticize the government, they will close our company.
I wonder if there are some of the expected artists who would not sign them. I do not think so. The expected artists will be applauded in the world who will accept them, will submit to them, will sit with people who will not say anything about this stranger and will sing his song ”.
“IF NAZIM HIKMET LIVED TODAY, WOULD YOU SUPPORT THIS POLITICAL STRUGGLE?”
“We saw the state of the people who were applauded in the world. We saw what happened to those people with the strike teams that he hired on social media. I’m right? Have we not seen or experienced them? People who want to make art with dignity in this country have not only happened for 20 years, but what has happened to these people since the history of the Republic. Didn’t this country see Sabahattin Ali, Nazım Hikmet, Orhan Kemal, Yaşar Kemal, Abidin Dino? Don’t we know what happened to these people? This is a terrible situation.
If Nazım Hikmet were alive today, would you support this political oddity? He is one of the most famous poets in the world. Do these world-renowned people like Zülfü Livaneli and Ahmet Ümit support this political oddity? They are being applauded all over the world, where are these people coming from now? Is it because dozens of people are shutting down or our children are ruined in a terrible educational system? The artists started talking about them so we couldn’t see them. No sir, they shouldn’t dump it off social media, they shouldn’t save it. Where do we say our word? It is not pleasant for a political party that prevents our plays and talks about art like that ”.
Berna Laçin:
“Far from there! Is that happening? The artist does not kiss! On the contrary, he kisses the artist’s hand! Mustafa Kemal Atatürk”
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