The staging of the play Don Kîxot, adapted from Miguel de Cervantes’s book Don Quixote into Kurdish by Şanoya Bajêr a Amedê (Amed City Theatre), on 28 May 2022 was banned by Çayırova Municipality which belongs to the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Although the theater contract was signed by Seyme Organization for the play to be staged at Kocaeli Çayırova Municipality Necmettin Erbakan Cultural Center on May 28 2022, Çayırova Municipality blocked the play at the last moment on the grounds that the hall was “allocated to another organization.”
Seyme Organization announced on its social media account that the theater play was banned using the following words:
“Although the contract for the hall was signed for the play ‘Don Kîxot’, which will be staged by @amedtiyatro on 28 May in Kocaeli, we were informed by the Çayırova Municipality that the hall was allocated to another organization.
This information, which was given to us by phone outside of working hours, on the evening of 13 May at 22.30, is an attitude that violates our contract. These decisions that ban the Don Kîxot play and the Aynur Doğan concert in Kocaeli are an unacceptable approach to Kurdish culture and art.”