• Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
  • Turkey, Bulgaria 2018
  • 95 minutes
  • Turkish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

May 22nd, 1963. Unhappy with the existing social and political situation in Turkey, a group of military officers have planned a coup d’état to take down the government in Ankara. Meanwhile in Istanbul, their conspirators have undertaken the vital mission of taking over the National Radio station and making a formal announcement about the coup. But nothing goes to plan.

Based on actual events and told over the course of a single night, The Announcement is a wry commentary on Turkey’s uneasy political past - and present.


  • Director Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
  • Production Halil Kardaş, Tarık Tufan
  • Script Ercan Kesal, Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
  • Cinematography Krumm Rodrigues
  • Editing Çiçek Kahraman
  • Music Okan Kaya
  • Festivals Venice
  • Actors Ali Seçkiner Alıcı, Tarhan Karagöz, Murat Kılıç, Şencan Güleryüz
  • Source Heretic Outreach, Athens