FATİH AKIN’IN FİLMLERİNDE KİMLİK, ÖTEKİLİK VE GÖÇ OLGUSU
IDENTITY, OTHERNESS, AND MIGRATION IN FATİH AKIN'S FILMS

Summary/Abstract: Identity has a wide range of concepts, from the product identity of the companies to the post-colonial identity, from personal identities to ethnic, religious, sexual, and social identities. Especially in the modern age, the identity problem is not only decisive at the level of national identity but also at the level of different identities in cultural life. Therefore, the definition of identity and the discussions about identity have always been the focus of cinema. In this article, concepts such as identity, the other, and the subaltern are first defined to discuss identity in cinema. Later, I tried to analyze the discussions about these concepts based on Akın's films. Akın, in his films, explained different identities in the social-political world; groups with cultural, religious, linguistic, and racial differences can live together peacefully if desired. It is also shown that people living together can respect all kinds of identities and that it is not a problem for a person to have more than one identity. In this respect, films such as Short and Painless (1998), In July (2000), Solino (2002), Against the Wall (2004), On the Edge of Life (2007), The Cut (2014), and Shattered (2017); The concepts such as migration, identity, the other, and cultural change were analyzed with the "sociological method" and "discourse analysis" methods. Thus, the theoretical definitions of identity were tried to be embodied in Akın's films.

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