Hazar Ergüçlü Made an Emotional Warning by Remembering the Miner's Son in Her Golden Boll Award-Winning Speech

Hazar Ergüçlü, in her speech after receiving the Best Actress award at the 33rd International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, commemorated the miners and Yaşar, the son of Kerim Ören, who lost his life in Soma.

Hazar Ergüçlü, who received the Best Actress Award for her role in the movie "Mutter: A Mother's Diary" at the National Feature Film Competition held within the scope of the 33rd International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, commemorated Yaşar, the son of 37-year-old miner Kerim Ören, who lost his life in Soma, in his award speech. Talking about the mining history in his own family, Ergüçlü said, "Every time a miner dies, my grandfather and grandmother come to my mind. When I see the children of miners crying, I feel ashamed of living and breathing."

Highlights from Ergüçlü's speech were as follows:

"We have all had a very long time to be happy about something... It has been very difficult for all of us to be happy about something for a very long time. We wake up to a completely different nightmare every day.

In a time when being yourself is so dangerous and even tried to be banned; I am very honored to have my work seen in this place and in our industry, where everyone is tried to be stereotyped and put into the same mould.

I looked within and came across a huge emptiness. We've been subjected to so much pain for so long that I feel like we've become numb.

Yesterday, I was devastated when I saw Yaşar, the son of miner Kerim Ören, who lost his life in Soma at the age of 37. My grandmother and grandfather were coal workers. My childhood passed with the smell of coal. My grandfather worked in copper mines. Every time a miner dies, my own grandfather and grandmother come to my mind. The effort they put in to live humanely and educate their children comes to mind. When I see miners' children crying, I feel ashamed of living and breathing.

It's just that these injustices are too much for me and no matter what I do, I can't get rid of this sadness.

Will we live with injustice? How will we continue like this? What kind of a society will we be if we cannot live together humanely? Isn't Yaşar's pain partly our responsibility?

That's why I apologize to Yaşar while saying these; just because I can't do anything but mention him here.

Still, we have only one hope left. We will not give that either.