The Exiled Cow (Sürgün İnek) (translated)

Sürgün İnek (The Exiled Cow) is a comedy film directed by Ayhan Özen, with a screenplay by Serkan Öztürk inspired by a real event. Made in 2013, it opened on February 28, 2014. It was filmed in July 2013 in the Bozüyük neighborhood of Yatağan district, Muğla, and the script took two years to work on.

The film is based on an incident in 2009 in the Kadiruşağı neighborhood of Yeşilyurt district, Malatya: a cow broke the Atatürk bust in a schoolyard, an investigation was opened and the cow was sent to another village. The film links this to the atmosphere of the February 28 process. The villagers are already worried because of that period. Events begin when a cow belonging to Şevket Çetin (Hasan Kaçan) wanders into the schoolyard to graze and breaks the bust. Şevket and his wife Cemile (Şebnem Sönmez), who are very fond of their cows, try various ways to keep the matter quiet; when word gets out, the whole village sets out to find the cow.

Cezmi Baskın plays the village head Sami, Fırat Tanış plays Nihat Çetin, Bülent Çolak plays Saffet, Vildan Atasever plays the teacher Gülay, Ozan Akbaba plays Selçuk, Necip Memili plays the imam Ahmet and Yılmaz Gruda plays Cebrail Dede.