ISTANBUL — “Diyarbakır is under martial law. It is the most important city in Kurdistan. With its 250,000 citizens, it seems as if pacification has been imposed successfully. The army is omnipresent, but the monitoring seems to have loosened […].” This could have been the news broadcast in Turkey on November 21, on October 8, on September 13, or on August 18 of this past year, but it definitely wasn’t. The footage, in fact, dates back to September 11, 1985, over 30 years ago, when it was broadcasted on French television. In 2011, it resurfaced in Istanbul as part of the video-installation “Heure de Paris: Separation” by Barış Doğrusöz, where the artist combines televisual footage from French and Turkish news reports during the 1980s. The work gives a lasting impression of the media environment in Turkey during those years: It wasn’t permitted to film in the country, so images were illegally obtained from people who filmed inside moving cars, obviously affecting focus and quality.