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Longtime Turkish icon Zeki M\u00fcren (photo courtesy makingqueerhistory.com<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u0130lker Hepkaner<\/h4>\n

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\u201cZeki M\u00fcren, you are the best thing that happened to us.\u201d Leaving a voicemail on a hotline twenty years after his passing, a fan of Zeki M\u00fcren, overheard by viewers of a new documentary, expresses Turkish people\u2019s deep love and admiration for the most popular music personality of the 20th century in Turkey. On the surface, the 2022 Webby Award Honoree Zeki M\u00fcren Hotline <\/em>is a web documentary recounting the memory of Zeki M\u00fcren, who still enjoys widespread acceptance by Turkish people despite publishing a manifesto on why he wore a skirt on stage during his performances in 1970. However, Zeki M\u00fcren Hotline<\/em>, which you can watch in Turkish<\/a> and English<\/a>, also documents how queer artists in Turkey experience fame, love, hate, and resistance.<\/p>\n

Filmmaker and editor Beyza Boyac\u0131o\u011flu directs with media artist Jeff Soyk. Boyac\u0131o\u011flu started with the idea of a film, but her studies at MIT\u2019s Comparative Media Studies program allowed her to explore a digital, interactive way of telling M\u00fcren\u2019s life story. At the intersection of memory and technology, Zeki M\u00fcren Hotline<\/em> expounds the unique and queer place the artist still holds in Turkey through sound, image, and word.<\/p>\n

Until his death in 1996, Zeki M\u00fcren dominated the Turkish music scene while continuously blurring gender boundaries with his flamboyant looks, similar to Liberace in the US and Walter Mercado in Puerto Rico. M\u00fcren started his music career on the state radio in the early 1950s as a singer, but his creativity exceeded singing. While producing hits in the genre called \u201cTurkish artistic music,\u201d which encompassed classical Ottoman music traditions, he also starred in films. He designed the controversial costumes he wore on stage.<\/p>\n

In Turkey, Zeki M\u00fcren is considered a national treasure for all his artistry, but his rise to fame could not have happened in a vacuum. He received tremendous support from the Turkish state\u2019s cultural institutions. The state\u2019s radio and TV platforms were wide open to him while musicians producing Arabesque<\/a> \u2014 which was influenced by Egyptian and Lebanese music \u2014 faced state censorship in the 1970s. The public has given him the monikers of \u201cSanat G\u00fcne\u015fi (Sun of Arts)\u201d and \u201cPasha,\u201d not only due to their nationwide love for the musician, but also because of their appreciation of his utmost respect and love for his listeners.<\/p>\n

M\u00fcren never publicly stated his sexual and\/or gender identity but lately he has been widely considered as a queer icon. Currently, in a political environment predominantly hostile to LGBTQ+ people<\/a> in the country, Zeki M\u00fcren is being rediscovered for his exemplar artistry and queer expression. Through meticulous archival research and montages of his songs and imagery, Zeki M\u00fcren Hotline<\/em> not only documents the extraordinary life of one of the most popular public figures in Turkey, but also shows how people have repurposed his life and fame since the late 2010s as a reaction to Turkey\u2019s new cultural landscape, shaped by the AKP regime of almost two decades.<\/p>\n

\"\"The neoliberal conservative AK Party\u2019s victory in 2002 ushered in a considerable cultural change in the country. In the beginning, the AK Party (AKP) introduced legislation to advance freedom of expression as a part of Turkey\u2019s EU bid and its agenda of crippling the military\u2019s power over political institutions. Hence, the first years of AKP rule witnessed an extraordinary shift in the cultural sphere: voices from the periphery, such as Kurds or the religiously conservative, found more opportunities in the mainstream media and cultural discourse. The republican cultural elite, which was the urban elite as the product of Kemalist cultural policies of the Turkish state, was sidelined. The 2010 referendum bestowed upon the AKP control of the judiciary branch; it also gave the party the political tools to silence first the republican elite, and later Kurds since the AKP could stay in power only by forming an alliance with the ultra-nationalists in the country. By mid-2010, when Boyac\u0131o\u011flu and Soyk started producing the web documentary, the former cultural elite, the urban Kemalists, supported by the pre-AKP Turkish state, had lost tremendous cultural prowess, and Zeki M\u00fcren, having died in 1996, became a nostalgic figure for a time lost.<\/p>\n

By collecting voice messages from people who \u201cdearly miss\u201d Zeki M\u00fcren, the web documentary captures the urban elite\u2019s nostalgia for the pre-AKP era within a cultural landscape they can no longer recognize. In this context, messages emphasizing M\u00fcren\u2019s utmost respect for his listeners or his command of \u201cproper Turkish,\u201d a way of speaking Turkish according to the state\u2019s linguistic hegemony which oppressed rural or non-Muslim speakers of the language, are not only about remembering an artist who passed away almost 20 years. Those messages are also expressions of the urban elite lamenting the change Turkey has gone through under the AKP rule. Zeki M\u00fcren is remembered not only as an artist whom the Turkish people lost, he is remembered as an undeniable figure of the arts \u2014 almost an entire cultural institution on his own that no longer exists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The web documentary also shatters a misconception about M\u00fcren\u2019s fame. Zeki M\u00fcren was Turkey\u2019s \u201cSun of Arts,\u201d but some people chose to remain in the shade. As a young woman recounts how her admiration for Zeki M\u00fcren started in her family, she is interrupted by an angry voice. Her father denies listening to Zeki M\u00fcren or encouraging such admiration for him in the family. He does not state why he \u201cwould have nothing to do with Zeki M\u00fcren,\u201d but from his assertion and tone of voice, it is not difficult to guess the denial is tied to Zeki M\u00fcren\u2019s gender-bending looks and mannerisms. By showing the audiences such a human interaction where voice carries the deeper meaning of the words uttered, Zeki M\u00fcren Hotline<\/em> exposes the cracks within the myth of nationwide acceptance of a man wearing skirt and make up on stage in a predominantly Muslim country.<\/p>\n

The messages left for the hotline are otherwise very positive ones. In fact, they show, at a personal and communal level, how queer people remember Zeki M\u00fcren and are now turning him into a symbol of resistance against the patriarchal and heteronormative expectations of society. One of his admirers mentions a sign that read \u201cI asked Zeki M\u00fcren, he told me to resist\u201d in the Istanbul Pride Parade, an event that has been banned by the government since 2016. Zeki M\u00fcren did not publicly criticize the state; one of his monikers \u201cPasha\u201d is a term of military authority; and he even left half of his estate to Mehmet\u00e7ik Vakf\u0131, an association for veterans. But as the web documentary also shows, his life is now remembered as a way of resistance and an inspiring story for the LGBTI+ people in the country. Through these contradictions, Zeki M\u00fcren Hotline<\/em> summarizes the contending legacies of the artist.<\/p>\n

Overall, Zeki M\u00fcren Hotline<\/em> is as comprehensive as it can be towards an artist who survived three coups d\u2019\u00e9tat and countless governments while maintaining nationwide popularity as well as posthumous admiration. Besides its success in bringing multiple components of his artistry and reception by the people, the web documentary succeeds in balancing voice, image, word, and digital technology in telling a story while making sure each medium\u2019s strengths are used for the sake of the story.<\/p>\n

You might be just starting to learn about Zeki M\u00fcren or you might be an avid follower of many memorializations<\/a> of his life and legacy<\/a>, but you will still learn so much through the effective documentary making and storytelling methods utilized in the web documentary. Zeki M\u00fcren Hotline<\/em> can be visited here<\/a>, and it will remain online at least until December 6, 2024.<\/p>\n

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