Requiem for Metin Altıok

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Requiem for Metin Altıok is an oratorio by Fazıl Say from 2003 for his friend, the poet Metin Altıok , who burned to death in 1993 with 34 other artists in an attack by Islamists in Sivas .

premiere

The world premiere took place in 2003 at the Istanbul Festival in front of an audience of 5,000.

Reactions

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey ( Kültür ve Turizm Bakanı ) issued the statement “We don't want to be reminded” , according to Spiegel in consultation with Prime Minister Erdoğan . The play was performed, but shortened by the sentence in which Say remembered the victims. Television images of the arson attack that the artist wanted to integrate into the performance were not allowed to be shown. A performance planned for the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2008 was canceled following interventions by Erdoğan and the Turkish Ministry of Culture.

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  1. ↑ Antje Harders: “Will I still be able to play Beethoven?” In: Spiegel Special from September 30, 2008 . No. 6 , 2008.
  2. ↑ Helmut Peters: Turkish Ambassador of Classics. In: welt.de . February 15, 2009, accessed February 7, 2017 .