The Circle

Kurdish born on 1976 in Diyarbakır –Turkey, she lived in Istanbul, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Athens, Vienna, Venice, Kiev, San Diego and Moscow. She graduated with an EMA in Human Rights and Democratization from European Inter University Consortium on Human Rights and Democratization, Venice (2002), after having completed programmes in University of Vienna and University of California Los Angeles, and a BBA in University of Marmara, Istanbul (1999). She worked a number of years as human rights expert for United Nations with honours and recognitions, and following that as lecturing professor on human rights in the university as well as representative of NGOs and an activist for social collective initiatives. After having a serious injury in 2014, she was in long bed rest where she has developed a number of stories and screenplays with an aim of advocating human rights and reaching public through medium of films. Written & directed & produced ‘Hevêrk’ as her debut film in 2016. She is now based in Istanbul and in process of her new film ‘Aether’.