NEW YORK - Hasan Serefli of Turkey won Emmy award on the branch of research in the 24th Emmy Awards.
Serefli won the award with his documentary film "Kids Behind Bars."
Serefli told A.A correspondent on Tuesday that Turkey leg of the film was shot in Kecioren Reformatory. He added that he did not attend the ceremony as he did not believe that his film would win the award.
Serefli said, ''the film, which is shot in the United States, Mongolia, Georgia, India, the Philippines and Turkey, shows the conditions of reformatories in all of these countries. It tells the reactions of children. It tells how the world seems from children's point of view, in which conditions they are living, what kind of contributions the state provides and what kind of difficulties they are faced with in adaptation to social life after coming out of reformatory.''
Noting that conditions of reformatories in every place of the world were very bad, Serefli said that according to results of his researches, Turkey was shown as example as the most liberal country in the basic issues such as management of reformatory and reassociation.
Serefli said that there was a very liberal system in Kecioren reformatory when compared with the others and there were no bars in the reformatory. He added that children could go to school without guards. He said that British and American experts decided that it was a right method. He added, ''I would like to say that Justice Ministry has also a contribution in this.''
Emphasizing that this point was very important, Serefli said that ''especially on the process of accession to the European Union (EU), human rights associations made continuous researches in Turkey, but I do not know why they never touched on this point.''
Serefli said that in many countries 70-85 percent of children returned to reformatories again after coming out while this percentage was 10-15 in Turkey. He added that this was also related with family structure and culture of Turkish people.
(GC-AÖ) 16.09.2003