How Did We Get Here
The origins of Turkey's social context, traced via artworks, and elements of popular culture and social movements since 1980.
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191/205. 2010
In January 1985, the General Directorate of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) banned the use of 205 words on TV and radio broadcasts on the grounds that they do not comply with the general structure and operation of the Turkish language and that they are beneath the level of standard Turkish. The order banned words such as “memory, remember, recollection, experimental, motion, revolution, nature, dream, theory, possibility, history, freedom, example, conversation, whole, life,” but it was ultimately repealed.
"191/205" is a song created with the Turkish MC Fuat, consisting of 191 of these banned words found in TRT archives and newspapers.
© Photo: Mustafa Hazneci
Courtesy of SALT Istanbul
The origins of Turkey's social context, traced via artworks, and elements of popular culture and social movements since 1980.