Esmeray Zeynep Özatik (born 1973) is a theatre actress, columnist, and LGBT activist.[1]
Esmeray Özadikti | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 (age 50–51) Digor, Kars, Turkey |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, activist |
When she Özatik was 15, she moved with her family from Kars to Istanbul. She took theatre, Turkish and Kurdish lessons at Mesopotamia Cultural Center.[2] In 2009, she play in two different adaptations of Dario Fo's play The Rape, one of which included elements from her own experience of rape.[3] She was a cast and crew member of the play Yazmadan Dökülenler, which was performed at Amargi Theatre and told the story of 13 women who migrated to a big city.[4] She later went one to act in Cadının Bohçası, the story of a transsexual woman who moves from Kars to Istanbul, which was inspired by her own life. In its second part, Yırtık Bohça, she used a one-person narrative[5] to what people with different sexual identities were exposed to. She later turned her life during her period of sex reassignment surgery into a play called Kestirmeden Hikayeler.[6]
At the First Congress of the People's Democratic Party in October 2013, she succeeded in joining the Party Assembly.[7]
References edit
- ^ "Esmeray Özatik". www.tsa.org.tr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ^ "Cadı bohçası dertle dolu". Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ "Esmeray 'Tecavüz'ü son kez anlatıyor". www.radikal.com.tr. Radikal gazetesi, 26 Nisan 2009. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ "Yazmadan Dökülenler". www.istanbul.net.tr. 2003-12-20. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ "Esmeray "Yırtık Bohça"sı ile Boğaziçi'ndeydi". 2012-12-14. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ Karakaş, Burcu. "Göstermeme gerek yok, gelin anlatayım size". Archived from the original on 23 May 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ Korkmaz, Serhat. "HDP Parti Meclisini Belirledi". Archived from the original on 30 August 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2016.