Vatanim Sensin
2016as Hasibe
As the Greek occupation of İzmir plunges western Anatolia into chaos, Azize is left to defend her home and her three children while her husband Cevdet, a brave Ottoman officer, fights at the front. She is a woman who has never held a rifle but learns quickly that the enemy wears many faces — sometimes a soldier’s uniform, sometimes a neighbour’s smile. With her fierce mother‑in‑law by her side, she navigates occupation, hunger, and betrayal, raising her children in a house that could be raided at any moment. Cevdet, waging a parallel war on the battlefield, carries the photograph of his family pressed against his heart as a talisman against death. Their story, inspired by true events, weaves together the grand canvas of the Turkish War of Independence with the intimate threads of a marriage tested by separation, the greed of those who profit from war, and the extraordinary sacrifices ordinary people make when their homeland is on the line. It is a sweeping epic of love, treason, and a nation’s struggle to be born.
