In 2016, Ukrainian singer-songwriter Jamala won the Eurovision Song Contest with a touching song about the fate of her great-grandparents – deported from Crimea in 1944, under Stalin.
Now, six years later, Jamala herself has had to flee Ukraine.

For her, it’s a given that music is political. She has regularly attracted attention for posing critical questions about the situation in Crimea - during her years on the jury of Ukraine’s preliminary ESC rounds, for example.

How does she view the ESC's role in creating international understandings, what does she expect from this year's edition, and what will participation mean for Ukraine?

We meet with Jamala in Istanbul to talk with her about the current situation.

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Report: Christian Weibezahn
Camera: Christian Feiland
Edit: Manuela Reuss

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