The artist depicted in this huge mural is Zehra Dogan, a Kurdish journalist and artist living in Turkey. Inscribed around it are the number of days she was incarcerated in a Turkish prison. The lines used for the tally are both bars and pencils.
Doğan's imprisonment stems from the Turkish government's repression of the Kurdish population, which erupted in 2016 when Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels clashed in the southeastern Turkish town of Nusaybin. The Turkish military took the town.controlThe attack killed 200 people and destroyed as many as 10,000 homes. Mr. Doğan painted a picture of the town after thepaintingand was arrested for disseminating "terrorist propaganda".
He is a street artist and is known for his "banksiepresented this work in New York as a protest against its imprisonment. Mr. Doan used coffee grounds, tomato paste, and other ingredients to hide while incarcerated.drawingfrom prison for the first time in two years and 10 months in 2019, continuing to draw thereleaseThe first time the company was founded, it was a small company.
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