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I Saw The Sun
''I Saw the Sun'' ( tr, Güneşi Gördüm) is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül, which tells of a Kurdish family who are forced from their village in southeastern Turkey by the conflict there. The film, which was released on , was one of the highest grossing Turkish films of 2009, prompting its re-release on . The film was Turkey's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Premise The film tells of a Kurdish family who head to İstanbul from their village in southeastern Turkey. Part of the family tries to emigrate to Norway. Cast * Mahsun Kırmızıgül - Ramo * Cemal Toktaş - Kadri * Yıldız Kültür - Pakize * Sarp Apak - Ahmet * Buğra Gülsoy - Berat * Ali Sürmeli - Nedim * Altan Erkekli - Davut * Erol Günaydın - Samet * Demet Evgar - Havar * Cezmi Baskın - Bünyamin * Murat Ünalmış - Production Writer-director Mahsun Kırmızıgül has s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahsun Kırmızıgül
Mahsun Kırmızıgül (born Abdullah Bazencir, March 26, 1969) is a singer songwriter, actor and director, scriptwriter, music composer, producer of Kurdish- Zaza descent. Mahsun Kırmızıgül is also known as a businessman for his partnership in one of the leading music production companies, Prestij Müzik, in Turkey until 2002. Life He was born on March 26, 1969, in Diyarbakir, Turkey as a member of a Zaza family of 22 children. He studied primary and secondary schools in Diyarbakir. He worked to contribute his family since his early ages. He started to sing for the weddings to save money. In 1984, he was invited to Istanbul to make an album for 'Güneş Plak'. He started to study in the Voice Department of Istanbul University-Turkish Music Conservatory. Mahsun Kırmızıgül started his music studies in 1980 and made 8 amateur albums. His professional debut album "Alem Buysa Kral Sensin" was dropped in 1993 as a bomb in the music world and sat at the top of the music lists. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murat Ünalmış
Murat Ünalmış (born 23 April 1981) is a Turkish actor. Life and career Ünalmış spent his childhood in Kayseri before moving to Istanbul to attend secondary school. During his high school years, he played for the basketball team of Fenerbahçe S.K. After graduating from Marmara University with a degree in communication studies, Ünalmış studied acting at Academy Istanbul. Shortly after finishing his studies, he appeared in a number of TV series, including ''Hayat Bağları'', ''Sınırlı Aşk'', and ''Kurşun Yarası'' as well as movies such as ''Üç Kadın'', ''Deli Duran'', and ''Sen Ne Dilersen''. Her breakthrough came with a role in Mahsun Kırmızıgül's '' Güneşi Gördüm''. He later appeared in another film directed by Kırmızıgül, titled '' New York'ta Beş Minare''. Ünalmış also had a leading role in the series ''Yer Gök Aşk''. He was then cast in TRT 1's ''Sevda Kuşun Kanadında''. With Uğur Güneş, İbrahim Çelikkol, he played in mini his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Turkish-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Turkey
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Films
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards). Evaluation of the year Film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' said that 2009 "began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: ''The Reader'', '' Che'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Frost/Nixon'', '' Revolutionary Road'', ''The Wrestler'', ''Gran Torino'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being '' New Moon'', the latest in Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' saga, the best the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 LGBT-related Films
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Drama Films
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In Film
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards). Evaluation of the year Film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' said that 2009 "began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: ''The Reader'', '' Che'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Frost/Nixon'', '' Revolutionary Road'', ''The Wrestler'', ''Gran Torino'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being ''New Moon'', the latest in Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' saga, the best the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Yeşilçam Awards
The 3rd Yeşilçam Awards ( tr, 3. Yeşilçam Ödülleri), presented by the Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audiovisual Culture (TÜRSAK) and Beyoğlu Municipality, honored the best Turkish films of 2009 and took place on March 23, 2010, at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress and Exhibition Hall in Istanbul, Turkey. Veteran Turkish actress Filiz Akın received the Special Achievement Award. Awards and nominations The nominees were announced at a press conference held on February 22, 2010, in Ghetto. Best Film * Winner: ''Breath'' ( tr, Nefes: Vatan Sağolsun) directed by Levent Semerci ** '' I Saw the Sun'' ( tr, Güneşi Gördüm) directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül ** ''On the Way to School'' ( tr, İki Dil Bir Bavul) directed by Orhan Eskiköy ** ''Pandora's Box'' ( tr, Pandora’nın Kutusu) directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu ** '' Vavien'' directed by Yağmur & Durul Taylan Best Director * Winner: Reha Erdem for '' My Only Sunshine'' ( tr, Hayat Var) ** Levent Semerci for ''Breath'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ertuğrul Günay
Ertuğrul Günay (born 1 March 1948, in Ordu) was the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey (between 29 August 2007 – 24 January 2013). Biography Günay graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law with a degree of bachelor of laws in 1969. In the election in 1977, he became the youngest member of parliament to be elected to the Turkish Grand National Assembly, as a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP). Within the CHP, he rose to the position of Secretary General in 1992, but was expelled in 2004, following clashes with CHP leader Deniz Baykal. He joined the AKP (Justice and Development Party) upon his objection to anti-democratic tendencies emerging prior to the elections in 2007. He was elected as a member of parliament from Istanbul in 2007, then re-elected from İzmir in 2011. On 29 August 2007, Günay was appointed Minister of Culture and Tourism. Günay led some civil initiatives particularly the "Humanitarian Initiative for Bosnia", the "Eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemil Çiçek
Cemil Çiçek (; born 15 November 1946) is a Turkish politician who was the Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey between 4 July 2011 and 7 June 2015. Previously he was Minister of Justice from 2002 to 2007 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2007 to 2011. He was also a Justice and Development Party Member of Parliament from Ankara. Early life He was born on 15 November 1946 in Yozgat, Turkey. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Istanbul University. In 1983, he joined the centre-right ANAP. He became an ANAP MP for Yozgat, and in the late 1980s Minister of State responsible for "the family". In this role he was known for his conservative views on matters of sex and marriage. Political career He later became Minister for Energy and Natural Resources but was expelled from ANAP in 1997, upon which he joined the Islamic leaning Fazilet Party, which later evolved into the AKP. He was Minister of Justice in the first AKP government (from 2003 to 2007), when as a former ANAP MP he was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Today's Zaman
''Today's Zaman'' (Zaman is Turkish for 'time' or 'age') was an English-language daily newspaper based in Turkey. Established on 17 January 2007, it was the English-language edition of the Turkish daily '' Zaman.'' ''Today's Zaman'' included domestic and international coverage, and regularly published topical supplements. Its contributors included cartoonist Cem Kızıltuğ. On 4 March 2016, a state administrator was appointed to run ''Zaman'' as well as ''Today's Zaman''. Since a series of corruption investigations went public on 17 December 2013 which targeted high ranking government officials, the Turkish government has been putting pressure on media organizations that are critical of it. , the website of ''Today's Zaman'' had not been updated since 5 March, while all archived articles prior to March 2016 were removed. On July 20, 2016, five days after the military coup attempt, ''Today's Zaman'' was shut down after an executive decree by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
