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Suna Selen
Suna Selen (born 1 July 1939) is a Turkish actress of theatre, film and television. She has appeared in numerous plays at the Istanbul State Theatre. Life Selen was born in 1939 in Istanbul. Her father was lawyer Hüsamettin Selen, and her mother, Nimet Selen, was a granddaughter of scholar Ahmed Cevdet Pasha and daughter of Fatma Aliye Topuz. She finished her high school education at the Beşiktaş Atatürk Anadolu Lisesi. During her high school years she also attended the Theatre Department of Beşiktaş Municipal Conservatory. In 1956, she started studying law at the request of her family. At the same time she started to work at the Dormen Theatre. A year later, she left the law school and started her painting education at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts. In 1957, she married the painter Cem Kabaağaç and together they had a son. After her marriage, she left the Academy and pitched out her role at the Dormen Theatre. She began her professional career in the theatre sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub. The city straddles the Bosporus strait, lying in both Europe and Asia, and has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is the list of European cities by population within city limits, most populous European city, and the world's List of largest cities, 15th-largest city. The city was founded as Byzantium ( grc-gre, Βυζάντιον, ) in the 7th century BCE by Ancient Greece, Greek settlers from Megara. In 330 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome ( grc-gre, Νέα Ῥώμη, ; la, Nova Roma) and then as Constantinople () after himself. The city grew in size and influence, eventually becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necati Cumalı
Necati Cumalı (13 January 1921 – 10 January 2001) was a Turkish writer of novels, short-stories, essays and poetry. He was born in Florina, Greece to a Turkish family and his family had settled in Urla near İzmir in the framework of the 1923 agreement for the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Biography He grew up in Urla and did his studies in İzmir and he started his law education at İstanbul University then completed it in the Law School of the University of Ankara. He started writing poetry while he was still a student and his poems were published as of early 1940s in such prominent Turkish literary periodicals as Varlık and Servet-i Fünun. Toward the end of that decade, while he was doing his military service, he also started writing short stories in which the profound influence of another important Turkish writer, Sabahattin Ali, could be felt. This, and the themes of social consciousness obvious in his works could be the reason for which he was some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Piano Bacaksız
''Piano Piano Kid'' ( tr, Piano Piano Bacaksız) is a 1991 Turkish drama film directed by Tunç Başaran. The film was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Rutkay Aziz as Kerim * Emin Sivas as Kemal * Serap Aksoy as Kamile * Yaman Okay as Hizir * Aysegul Ünsa as Feriha See also * List of submissions to the 65th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Turkish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Turkey has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film on a regular basis since 1989. Prior to that, they also sent a single film (''Dry Summer'') in the 1960s after it won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival ... References External links * 1991 films 1991 drama films Turkish drama films 1990s Turkish-language films {{1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Büyü
''Büyü'' (''The Spell'') is a 2004 Turkish horror film directed by Orhan Oğuz. Though the film was a surprise box office success, it received very poor reviews. Plot A group of archeologists go into a ghost village that is cursed by its past. They ignore the warnings of the natives, but soon after they arrive, terror strikes. Weird bugs come out of flames to bite Cemil, Ayadan is raped by an invisible force (she awakes from it like a dream), babies are heard crying in the air, and more unnerving incidents occur. After the unexpected murder by decapitation of Cemil, the group finally bands together to try to take on the evil forces lurking around every corner. Cast *Ece Uslu - Aydan *Özgü Namal - Sedef *İpek Tuzcuoğlu - Ayşe *Okan Yalabık - Cemil *Nihat İleri - Professor *Dilek Serbest - Ceren *Suna Selen - Büyücü *Okan Selvi - *Serhat Tutumluer Serhat Tutumluer (born 29 June 1972) is a Turkish actor. Biography Serhat Tutumluer began stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zincirbozan
Zincirbozan is a location in Çanakkale Province, Turkey, notable because of its fame as the compulsory residence of politicians in 1983. Zincirbozan is situated in Çardak, Çanakkale, Çardak belde of Lapseki ilçe (district) facing the Sea of Marmara. Formerly there was a military establishment in Zincirbozan. Following the 1980 Turkish coup, the military rule decided to allow the formation of new parties with severe restrictions. However, former senior politicians were not permitted to participate in the new parties. A party which was founded by the former senior politicians, i.e., Great Turkey Party was closed and any politician who was thought to disobey this rule was taken under custody in Zincirbozan. Some of this politicians were former Justice Party (Turkey), Justice Party (AP) and some were former Republican People's Party (CHP) members. AP members were; Suleyman Demirel (former prime minister), İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil (former speaker of the upper house), Hüsamettin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyaz Melek
''The White Angel'' ( tr, Beyaz Melek) is a 2007 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül, which follows the story of two Eastern youths who find themselves in a rest home after their father comes down with cancer. The film, which went on general release across Turkey on , won the Remi Award at the 41st WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and was the second highest-grossing Turkish film of 2007. Plot Ali and Reşat bring their father Ahmet who is suffering from brain cancer for chemotherapy treatment in Istanbul. Unable to bear the treatment and thinking himself to be a burden, Ahmet runs away from the hospital and manages to reach a home for elders. The residents believe him to be abandoned by his children and take him in. Ali and Reşat find him but decide to let him stay when they see that he is happy there. They learn the stories and backgrounds of each of the elders. Two of them, Yaşar and Nebahat have fallen in love and plan to get marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York'ta Beş Minare
''Five Minarets in New York'', released as ''Act of Vengeance'' in the U.S. and as ''The Terrorist'' in Australia, is a 2010 American action film written and directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül, which follows two Turkish police officers sent to New York City to bring back a terrorist suspect. The film, which went on nationwide general release across United States on 5 November 2010. The title comes from the popular Turkish folk song, "Bitlis'te Beş Minare" (meaning Five Minarets in Bitlis). Production The film, which director Mahsun Kırmızıgül wrote the story and the screenplay for around 11 years before production commenced, was shot from April to June 2010 on location in New York City, United States and Istanbul, Turkey with an estimated budget of US$20 million. Cinematographer Jim Gucciardo shot the film in Anamorphic 35mm using an Arricam LT with Hawk Anamorphic V series lenses as the main “A” camera as well as a 1-Arri 435 for high speed sequences and a 1-Arri 235 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kızım
''Kızım'' (English translation: My Daughter, English title: My Little Girl), is a Turkish television series aired from September 9, 2018, to May 31, 2019, on Fridays (with the exception of the first episode) at 8 pm, and based on the Korean drama ''My Fair Lady (2016 TV series), My Fair Lady'' Plot Öykü Tekin Göktürk is an eight-year-old girl that lives with her mother's (Asu Karahan) friend, Zeynep Kaya, or, her aunt, who upon discovering that the girl has the only case of a rare genetic disease called Niemann-Pick disease, Niemann-Pick in Turkey, decides to abandon her. She leaves Öykü a note with the address of her father, Demir Göktürk, who is an irresponsible law offender that had just been arrested on the morning of the day that Zeynep abandoned her. At the court, the judge lets Demir go on the condition that he takes custody of Öykü as her father, which had been proved by a false paternity test conducted by Demir's best friend (brother), Uğur Adıgüzel, altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Üç Kuruş
''Üç Kuruş'' () is a Turkish action, comedy drama and crime television series, made by Ay Yapım, directed by Sinan Öztürk, written by Damla Serim, Eset Akçilad and Murat Uyurkulak, the first episode of which was broadcast on November 1, 2021. The leading roles are shared by Uraz Kaygılaroğlu, Ekin Koç, Aslıhan Malbora and Diren Polatoğulları. Plot A serial killer ( Diren Polatoğulları) is stalking Çıngıraklı, a tight-knit Roman neighborhood with little regard for outsiders. He leaves three pennies on each of his victims’ body, and the case is assigned to the Organized Crime Unit. Its captain, Efe (Ekin Koç), initially suspects Kartal (Uraz Kaygılaroğlu), a Romani mafia leader who is the neighborhood “protector” and Efe’s target. However, as Efe realizes that Kartal is not the killer, the cop and the mafia leader form an uneasy alliance to find Çıngıraklı’s “Three Penny serial Killer.” Efe has always looked at Kartal’s neighborhood as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Gray
Simon James Holliday Gray (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to five published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film, and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries. (Gardner and other sources cite the date of Gray's death as 6 August 2008; some sources, including the obituary by Billington and the book review by Scurr, give the day of Gray's death as 7 August 2008.) Biography Simon James Holliday Gray was born on 21 October 1936 on Hayling Island, in Hampshire, England to James Gray and his wife Barbara (née Holliday). His father, who later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include ''Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), ''Demons'' (1872), and ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). His 1864 novella, ''Notes from Underground'', is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
