Çerçi Film Days, which was held in the city annually, was cancelled. Mardin International Theater Festival for Children and Youth, which was organized every November since 2009 was not conducted as the organizer, Dramatic Arts Education and Research Association (DRASED), was closed. Four months later, reopened with another decree issued on November 22, the association declared that they are going to organize the festival in November 2017.
Most of those who were fired are still unemployed. Many of them are looking for jobs in different areas. I personally found a job in the news site Özgürüz. But when you have so many unemployed friends, you don’t feel like doing journalism. I can’t say that we are doing our job as willingly as before. But in the end, they closed the door on us, but we entered from the chimney. There are numerous friends who could not enter from the chimney.”