Places in the 32.Day Archive
Where 32.Day crews filmed, from Ankara and Istanbul to Northern Iraq, Baghdad, Sarajevo, Moscow and Tehran.
Most of the catalogue was filmed in Turkey: politics in Ankara, daily life in Istanbul, the southeast, and every election and cris…
United States1,273 segmentsUS politics, from Reagan to George W. Bush, and Washington's role in the region.
Istanbul903 segmentsStreet scenes, politics and society in Turkey's largest city.
Ankara863 segmentsThe capital: parliament, government and the military command.
Germany563 segmentsGerman reunification, the Turkish community in Germany, and PKK activity in Europe.
Cyprus456 segmentsThe divided island: Rauf Denktaş, negotiations, and Turkish–Greek tension.
Israel434 segmentsFootage filmed in Israel. For the wider conflict see Israel–Palestine.
France409 segmentsFrench politics and diplomacy, from Mitterrand onward.
Northern Iraq396 segmentsThe Kurdish region of Iraq: refugee crises, the Kurdish federated state, the PKK camps and the peshmerga. 32.Day crews filmed ther…
United Kingdom378 segmentsBritish politics and London.
Greece308 segmentsGreece and Turkish–Greek relations, including the Aegean disputes.
Azerbaijan180 segmentsAzerbaijan after independence: Elçibey, Aliyev and the Karabakh war.
Baghdad134 segmentsIraq's capital, filmed before and after the Gulf War.
Moscow103 segmentsThe Soviet and then Russian capital.
Gaza48 segmentsLife in the Gaza Strip, including after the 1993 agreement.
Beirut39 segmentsThe Lebanese capital during and after the civil war.
Georgia and Abkhazia38 segmentsGeorgia after independence and the Abkhaz–Georgian war.
Damascus31 segmentsThe Syrian capital, where several of the Öcalan interviews were recorded.
Tehran30 segmentsThe Iranian capital, from the last years of the Iran–Iraq War onward.
Sarajevo29 segmentsThe Bosnian capital under siege from 1992 to 1995.
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The 32.Day archive
32.Gün (32.Day) was the current-affairs programme created and presented by Mehmet Ali Birand. It first aired on TRT on 1 October 1985 and ran for more than three decades on several Turkish channels. Its crews filmed across Turkey, the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus and the former Soviet Union.
The archive is operated by Birand Yapım in Istanbul. It holds 26,617 catalogued tape segments: broadcast programmes, raw interviews and location rushes, mostly on Betacam and 1-inch tape.
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