How to be young — Season 1, Episode 1: Turkey
39 min • 1 season, 5 episodes
Episode synopsis
Turkey left the Istanbul Convention last year, a treaty to protect women and girls from violence. And it is precisely in Turkey that violence is most common. Margriet meets 23-year-old Ilay, who has been abused by her boss and now wants to file a, according to many, hopeless lawsuit against him. And the shocking story of Mutlu. When she was 19, she took part in Turkey's Got Talent and was shot in the head by a jealous boyfriend.
About How to be young
Margriet van der Linden sketches the often shocking and moving world of European young people. We live in an era rife with concerns: polarization, political instability and oppression. What do young Turkish women do when they are assaulted, raped or shot? What is the situation with the enormous group of Belarusian students in Lithuania who fled the violence of dictator Lukashenko? What inspires the thousands of Moroccan boys who illegally cross the border with Spain every year and for whom hardly anyone is waiting? And how are the Hungarian youth doing, who have to deal with a leader who is slowly but surely throwing democracy overboard?