News Center- The “Tearing Walls Down” documentary film telling the life stories of four female politicians - Figen Yüksekdağ, Gültan Kışanak, Aysel Tuğluk and Sibel Yiğitalp - has been released on the website of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on March 18, on International Day of Worldwide Solidarity with Political Prisoners.

The documentary film is available on the website with German, French, English, Spanish, Italian and Kurdish subtitles.

The documentary directed by Hebun Polat and Şerif Çiçek and produced by Adil Demirci, Onur Güler and Yeşim Coşkun is based on the poetry book entitled “Tearing Walls Down” by Figen Yüksekdağ and the book entitled, “Purple Color of Kurdish Politics” by Gültan Kışanak.

 Gültan Kışanak is a Kurdish journalist, author and politician. She was the co-mayor of the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality. She has been imprisoned since October 2016.

Figen Yüksekdağ, the former Co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has been imprisoned since November 2016.

Aysel Tuğluk, former HDP MP, was arrested in 2016. Although she has been suffering from dementia since March 2021, she was released from prison in 2022 following the Forensic Medicine Institution (ATK) report that she could not stay in prison.

Sibel Yiğitalp, former HDP MP, has lived abroad as an exile for years.