“The real danger is our opinions. It is not certain that they will not arrest me when I will go out from this room.”
“If I am not living my freedom, I won’t hide. I will die in this way. If I die in this way I can have proud. I will die on these ideas, it’s an honour for me.”
“There are problems with word feminism in turkey. But I am not against feminism, on the contrary I advocate it. Feminism is not a bad thing, the system caused feminism to appear, and the system creates feminism as a consequence of itself.”
Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Prize, 2017.
“I have faced every kind of gender discrimination, first as a little girl and later as a woman. I cannot wear what I want, because in court cases, rapists can get his sentence reduced by saying the victim was wearing miniskirt.”
“If we look at Turkey through class, the class that uses the word feminism is very intellectual, middle class, or upper class, it's like a pistol in their hands.”
Finalist, National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017.
“Even though you’re feminist or call yourself as feminist, you accept some values which are patriarchal. But you don’t even notice it, because it is part of your culture it is in your blood, I don’t know, it is under your skin."
"Inequality between men and women, gender hierarchy and polarisation actually advance the power of the government.”
