List Of Turkish Film Directors

	List Of Turkish Film Directors This is a list of Turkish nationality law, Turkish film directors. * Ömer Lütfi Akad - film director * Fatih Akın - German film director of Turkish descent * Zeki Alasya - film director, actor * Mustafa Altıoklar - film director, producer * Suha Arın, Süha Arın - film director * Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, film director, producer and writer (1938–1988) * Kutluğ Ataman - film director * Tunç Başaran - film director (1938–2019) * Nuri Bilge Ceylan - film director * Mehmet Bozdağ - film director * Sinan Çetin - film director * Zeki Demirkubuz - film director * Haldun Dormen - film director, actor * Ertem Eğilmez - film director (1929–1989) * Reha Erdem - film director * Yılmaz Erdoğan - film director, actor * Metin Erksan - film director * Muhsin Ertuğrul - film director (1892–1979) * Mu Tunc - film director * Şerif Gören - film director * Yılmaz Güney - Turkish-Kurdish film director * Çağan Irmak - film director * Çetin İnanç - film director * Türker İ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Turkish Nationality Law Turkish nationality law is based primarily on the principle of '' jus sanguinis''. Children who are born to a Turkish mother or a Turkish father (in or out of marriage) are Turkish citizens from birth. The intention to renounce Turkish citizenship (or acquire citizenship from another state) is submitted in Turkey by a petition to the highest administrative official in the concerned person's place of residence, and when overseas to the Turkish consulate. Documents processed by these authorities are forwarded to the Ministry of Interior (Turkey) for appropriate action. Definition of citizenship Citizenship is defined in Article 66 of the Turkish constitution: Adoption A child adopted by a Turkish citizen automatically becomes a Turkish citizen if under 18 years old on the date the application for adoption was made. In some cases (although it is not required), those who have foreign names and are applying for Turkish citizenship change their name to a Turkish name. Examp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Metin Erksan İsmail Metin Erksan (1 January 1929 – 4 August 2012) was a Turkish film director and art historian. Biography Erksan was born in Çanakkale. Following his graduation from Pertevniyal High School in Istanbul, he studied art history at Istanbul University. Starting in 1947, he wrote in various newspapers and magazines on cinema. In 1952, he debuted in directing with the films ''Karanlık Dünya'' and ''Aşık Veysel’in Hayatı'' written by Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu. He directed two documentary films in 1954 with the title ''Büyük Menderes Vadisi''. Metin Erksan gained success with films depicting the problems of people from the countryside he adopted from the literature. '' Susuz Yaz'' won the Golden Bear Award in Berlin, Germany. '' Yılanların Öcü'' (1962) was awarded in 1966 at the Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. He was named "Best Director" with his film ''Kuyu'' (1968) at the first edition of International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival. Along with renowned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ayten Kuyululu Ayten Kuyululu (; 30 August 1930 – 31 May 2019) was a Turkish-Australian film director, actress, opera singer and screenwriter. She was the first woman to direct a feature film in Australia since 1933 with ''The Golden Cage'' (1975). Early life and career Kuyululu was born in Istanbul in 1930. As a young woman she was an actress and opera singer, and wrote radio plays. In the mid-1960s she moved to Stockholm, together with her husband Ilhan Kuyululu and their three children. While living in Stockholm she directed a television drama film called ''The Outsiders'' about the lives of migrants in Sweden, and wrote the screenplay for a 1963 Turkish film called '. She also sang with the Royal Swedish Opera. The family moved to Australia in 1971. After initially working as a department store clerk, Kuyululu joined the chorus of Opera Australia and acted in television shows including ''Matlock Police'', '' Ryan'' and ''Homicide''. Together with her husband she established and ran th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ömür Kınay Ömür Kınay (born in 1979) is a disabled Turkish female film director, who has received the Golden Boll Award for her short film ''Kün''. Early years She was born in Istanbul in 1979. Ömür's mother Emine Doğançay and her father Hürol Kınay divorced when Ömür was one year old. From then on, she stayed with her mother. In the mid-1990s, she and her mother returned to Istanbul from Germany, where they had lived. At age 20, Ömür and her mother moved into their newly purchased flats situated one upon the other in the same apartment block at Sefaköy, Küçükçekmece. Just one week later, her mother died in the earthquake on August 17, 1999 under the debris of the wrecked building. Ömür was found four-and-half hours later hugging her mother. She was rescued from the wreckage, and was taken into a nearby hospital. However, she became paralyzed due to a spinal cord injury. A photograph showing her with sideward tipped head under the concrete debris appeared on the main p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran (born February 16, 1968) is a Turkish female screenwriter and film director. She was born on February 16, 1968, in Izmir, where her father was working as a director and producer for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT). After finishing the high school, she studied English literature and Philology at Istanbul University graduating in 1993. Kılıçkıran worked as a writer for foreign papers including ''Daily News'' and ''Middle East Journal'' before she became editor-in-chief of the ''CIDC Insight''. She then wrote scripts for commercials. After she realized that something was missing in the concept she decided to shoot the films of her own script. She says "Literature trained my writing skills and my perspective toward life. And or mewriting is the main and most important process of a visual creative work. I think the best films come when the writer and the director are the same person." Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran is one of very few f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ömer Kavur Ömer Kavur (18 June 1944 – 12 May 2005) was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed fourteen films between 1974 and 2003. His film, '' Gece Yolculuğu'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Nine years later, his film '' Akrebin Yolculuğu'' was screened in the same section at the 1997 Festival. He died on 12 May 2005, of lymphoma at his home in Teşvikiye, Istanbul, and was buried at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following the religious funeral service held at the Teşvikiye Mosque The Teşvikiye Mosque is a neo-baroque structure located in the Teşvikiye neighbourhood of Şişli district in Istanbul, Turkey. History The mosque was originally commissioned in 1794 by Sultan Selim III, but most of the current mosque that s .... Filmography * '' Yatık Emine'' (1974) * '' Yusuf ile Kenan'' (1979) * '' Kırık bir aşk hikâyesi'' (1981) * '' Ah güzel Istanbul'' (1981) * '' Göl'' (1982) * '' Körebe'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Semih Kaplanoğlu Semih Kaplanoğlu (born 4 April 1963) is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer. Life and career In 1984, Kaplanoğlu moved to Istanbul and worked for a couple of years as a copywriter for advertising companies like Güzel Sanatlar Saatchi & Saatchi and Young & Rubicam. He switched over to cinema in 1986 to become an assistant cameraman for two award-winning documentary films. In 1994 Kaplanoğlu wrote the script and directed a television series Şehnaz Tango with 52 episodes which was aired on TV channels Show TV and InterStar and became successful. Kaplanoğlu's debut feature '' Away From Home'' was awarded Best Director in Singapore IFF in 2001. His second feature '' Angel's Fall'' premiered in 2005 Berlinale Forum and received Best Film Award at Nantes, Kerala and Barcelona Alternativa film festivals. Between 2005 and 2010 he produced and directed the ''Yusuf Trilogy''. ''Yumurta'' ('' Egg''), the first film in the trilogy premiered in Cannes and won Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sabri Kalic Sabri ( ar, صبري) is a male given name of Arabic origin, it may refer to: Given name * Sabri Çakır (born 1955), Turkish poet * Sabri Gurses (born 1972), Turkish writer * Sabri Jiryis (born 1938), Arab-Israeli writer * Sabri Kalic (born 1966), Turkish film director * Sabri Khan (1927–2015), Indian musician * Sabri Lamouchi, French footballer * Sabri Ali (born 1993), Morocco footballer * Sabri Sarıoğlu (born 1984), Turkish footballer Surname * Ali Sabri (1920–1991), Egyptian politician * Hend Sabri, Tunisian actress * Masud Sabri, Uyghur Governor of Xinjiang * Mostafa Sabri (born 1984), Iranian footballer * Naji Sabri, Iraqi politician * Nazli Sabri (1894–1978), Queen consort of Egypt * Osman Sabri (1905–1993), Kurdish politically active poet * Rais Anis Sabri, Indian qawwali singer * Shaarib Sabri (born 1988), Indian singer and composer, brother of Toshi * Shabab Sabri (born 1979), Indian singer * Toshi Sabri (born 1984), Indian singer and composer * Yasmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Türker İnanoğlu Türker İnanoğlu (born May 18, 1936) is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer. Life He married first the film actress Filiz Akın, and after his divorce Gülşen Bubikoğlu, another former Turkish movie star. He has two children, a son, İlker, from his former marriage and a daughter, Zeynep, from his last marriage. Career İnanoğlu came in contact with the cinema when he was a student at the Istanbul Academy of Applied Fine Arts in 1957. After working as assistant to directors Ömer Lütfi Akat and Nişan Hançer in eleven movies, he directed in 1960 his first feature ''Senden Ayrı Yaşayamam''. After directing nine movies in the studios of Yeşilçam, the Turkish Hollywood, İnanoğlu established in 1959 his own film company Erler Film, which is today the oldest film production company in Turkey still in business. Since then, he produced 126 black-and-white and color films, among them 21 co-productions with Greece, Italy and Iran. He executed also the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Çetin İnanç Çetin İnanç (Born in Ankara on 12 September 1941) is a Turkish film director who has directed movies for the past five decades. He is infamously known as the director of '' Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (1982), aka'' "Turkish Star Wars" Biography Inanç spent his youth pursuing a career in Law, and later abandoned his career. He began his cinema career as the assistant of well-known Turkish director Atıf Yılmaz. In 1967 he made his first movie ''Çelik Bilek'' based on an Italian comics character. He quickly moved into the niche market of producing erotica, but was dissuaded from that path as military took over in Turkey and passed several censorship laws against adult movies. Among his erotic films, the most notorious is ''Bal Badem'' (1978), starring Zerrin Egeliler, one of the most famous Turkish actresses of the 1970s. His next venture was action movies, including his most famous work ''Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam'' (English: "The Man Who Saved The World"), a low-budget space ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Çağan Irmak Çağan Irmak (born 4 April 1970) is a Turkish film and television writer and director, who has managed to attract a large audience in Turkey and is best known for the TV series '' Çemberimde Gül Oya'' (2004–2005) and ''Asmalı Konak'' (2002–2004), and for the hit films '' Alone'' (2008) and ''My Father and My Son'' (2005), for which he received Turkish Cinema Writers Association Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director. He studied Radio, TV and Film Studies at Ege University Faculty of Communications, receiving the Sedat Simavi Award for two short films, ''Masal'' (The Tale) and ''Kurban'' (The Sacrifice), which he made in the course of his studies. After graduating in 1992, he worked in cinema and television as an assistant director to Orhan Oğuz, Mahinur Ergun, Filiz Kaynak and Yusuf Kurçenli, and was awarded first prize by IFSAK for his short film ''Play Me Old and Wise'' (1998). He wrote and directed the TV series ''Good Morning Brother Istanbul'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Yılmaz Güney Yılmaz Güney (' Pütün; 1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984) was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, and actor. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were devoted to the plight of ordinary working-class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film '' Yol'' (The Road) which he co-produced with Şerif Gören. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government over the portrayal of Kurdish culture, people and language in his movies. After being convicted of killing judge Sefa Mutlu in 1974 (a charge which he denied), Güney fled the country and was later stripped of his citizenship. Yılmaz Güney died of gastric cancer on 9 September 1984, in Paris, France. He is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Filmography Actor ''Alageyik'' (1958) ''Bu Vatanın Çocukları'' (1958) ''Tütün Zamanı'' (1959) ''Dolandırıcılar Şahı'' (1961) ''Tatlı Bela'' (1961) '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]