Feride Çiçekoğlu

Feride Çiçekoğlu (born 27 January 1951) is a Turkish writer and screenwriter. Following the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, she was detained for four years due to her political activism. Following her release, she published a book, Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite, based on her experiences in prison, which was subsequently adapted into the 1989 film of the same name.

Çiçekoğlu has since gone on to become a noted writer, translator and academic. With Xavier Koller, she co-wrote the screenplay of the 1990 film Journey of Hope, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Since 1999, Çiçekoğlu has been a professor at Istanbul Bilgi University, where her research focuses on the relationship between the city, women and cinema.