CÜRÜK – THE PINK REPORT
Ulrike Böhnisch | Germany, Turkey 2011 | 75 Min. | OmeU
No names, no faces, no responsibility. “Çürük” is an intense, entirely anonymous recording, of the mortifying procedure used by the Turkish military to make it possible for gay men to exempt themselves from military service. The humiliation includes psychological tests, anal examinations and the photographical proof of gay sex. The impact on gay men`s self-esteem becomes more than obvious, when one of the protagonists doubtfully asks: “Do you think I´m a real man?”
