Melike Aydın

 

DERSİM- Meral Uç, who has shot a documentary film entitled ‘A City’s Statutory decree (KHK)’, about public laborers, who have created their own alternatives, after being dismissed from their duties by statutory decree (KHK), stated her aim is to show that there is a resistance against psychology, which is wanted to formed in people’s mind by the state after dismissals.

 

Meral’s ‘Statutory decree (KHK) of a city’ documentary film, which is about six public laborers, who creates their own alternative solutions after being dismissed by statutory decree (KHK) issued last year, in Dersim, reflects a resistance against the psychological breakdown created by the system.

 

Former Education and Science Workers' Union (Eğitim Sen) Secretary in Dersim, Meral Uç, has worked with a camera for the first time, being in solidarity with her friends in Diyarbakır to shot her 23-minute documentary film. Meral, said that she has shot the documentary film to certify what kind of things the public laborers have faced after the dismissals.

 

'We want to shoot those, who resist against dismissals’

 

Despite the problems created due to the dismissals, Meral, who said that her documentary film brought about good results in terms of seeing the potentials of the people inside of themselves, told about the shooting phase of her documentary film as follows: "We wanted to shoot particularly friends, who forced their own opportunities to live in Dersim. For this reason, most of our friends had to leave from Dersim due to not having opportunities after being dismissed from their duties. We have searched and found the public laborers, who have created their own alternatives although they have been dismissed from their duties. We all knew that the purpose of dismissalswas to displace public laborers and we want to shoot people, have resisted against this understanding.”

 

'Women have no alternative due to the social roles’

 

Stating that they had taken the documentary film without getting any professional help film and without any equipment, within 10 days, Meral added that they wanted to give power to people, who have difficult times and want to die after the dismissals, with this documentary film. Pointing that dismissed women have more difficulties to create alternatives than dismissed men do, Meral said, “I think that, there is serious psychological differences between men and women. First, women mostly have not created economic alternatives themselves, yet. The women are in the process of waiting because they think that they will return their posts. They are passing this process mostly looking after their children and their family. Of course, they have unseen solidarity among them. However, to struggle for something for society, is more notable for men because men feel that they have to earn money in some ways. However, women have expectation to return to public service.”

 

'People have lost their faith in justice’

 

Saying that in addition to these, a dismissed woman friend of Meral lives off beekeeping in the mountainside, Meral emphasized that there are also women, who break down social roles. Pointing that Dersim is the only city that is under pressure, and the all kinds of civil society activities in Dersim always encounters obstacles during the process of state of emergency (OHAL), Meral continued as follows: “Laborers, farmers, officers all of them complain about not being able to express themselves. Everyone is suffering from injustice, asking 'What will these pressures cause?’ If there is no justice in a country, people lose their belief in justice. My main purpose in shooting this documentary film was to show people that they actually have alternatives. "