A KURDISH film director who lost both her legs in an Isis bomb attack has vowed to fight to get her job back after she was sacked by a Turkish government-appointed official in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir.

Lisa Calan was a stage director at the Department of Culture and Social Affairs until she became one of eight people who were told that their jobs were no longer required.

They believe that the dismissals were politically motivated, as the authoritarian Turkish state continues to move against people seen as opponents of the government or supporters of the left-wing Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).