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The Blue-Eyed Giant
''The Blue-Eyed Giant'' ( Turkish title: ''Mavi Gözlü Dev'') is a 2007 biographical film about the period when poet Nazim Hikmet spent in Bursa Prison after 1941. The film was directed by Biket Ilhan, who played the famous poet Yetkin Dikinciler. The filming of the film, which received 175.000 TL support from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, took place on the set of the prison established by the art director Mustafa Zia Ülkenciler in Beykoz Beykoz (), also known as Beicos and Beikos, is a district in Istanbul, Turkey at the northern end of the Bosphorus on the Anatolian side. The name is believed to be a combination of the words bey and ''kos'', which means "village" in Farsi. Bey .... The script of the film, which went down in the history of world cinema as the first film about the life of Nazim Hikmet, was rewritten and completed eight times in a period of more than four years. Cem Idiz, who composed the music for the film, also composed Hikmet's poem "Invitation", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a East Thrace, small portion on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turkish people, Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its list of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently Settler, settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested the European Union to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state. Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet. The distinctive characteristics of the Turk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the Marmara Region, Bursa is one of the industrial centers of the country. Most of Turkey's automotive production takes place in Bursa. As of 2019, the Metropolitan Province was home to 3,056,120 inhabitants, 2,161,990 of whom lived in the 3 city urban districts (Osmangazi, Yildirim and Nilufer) plus Gursu and Kestel, largely conurbated. Bursa was the first major and second overall capital of the Ottoman State between 1335 and 1363. The city was referred to as (, meaning "God's Gift" in Ottoman Turkish, a name of Persian origin) during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is ("") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban fabric, as well as to the vast and richly varied forests of the surrounding region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yetkin Dikinciler
Yetkin Dikinciler (born 15 August 1969) is a Turkish actor. Biography Yetkin Dikinciler graduated in Theatre from the State Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University. He was awarded "Best Actor" for his role as Nazım Hikmet in ''Mavi Gözlü Dev'' at the 19th Ankara Film Festival, 13th ÇASOD Awards and 13th Sadri Alışık Awards. Filmography * '' Hot Skull'' (2022) * '' Barbaroslar: Akdeniz'in Kılıcı'' (2021) - İshak Reis * ''Yeşilçam'' (2021) - Reha * ''Menajerimi Ara'' (2020) - Himself * ''Merhaba Güzel Vatanım'' (Batı İstanbul Vakfı) (2019) * '' Cep Herkülü: Naim Süleymanoğlu'' (Dijital Yapım Evi) (2019) * '' Bahtiyar Ölmez'' (2017-2018) - Rıfat Çakar/Bahtiyar Ölmez * '' Her Şey Mümkün'' (2017) - İbrahim/Selim * ''Nadide Hayat'' (2015) - Kaptan Yusuf * '' Kızım İçin'' (2013) - Tuncer * ''Muhteşem Yüzyıl'' (2014) - Kara Ahmed Pasha * '' Umut Üzümleri'' (Rönesans Film) (2013) - Ozan * '' Merhaba Hayat'' (2012) - Sinan * ''Çıplak Gerçek'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Culture And Tourism (Turkey)
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism ( tr, Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı) is a government ministry of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for culture and tourism affairs in Turkey. Revolving fund management of the ministry is carried by DÖSİMM. On January 25, 2013, Ömer Çelik was appointed as minister following a cabinet change succeeding Ertuğrul Günay, who was in office since 2008. Ministry functions One of the responsibilities of the ministry is the preservation of manuscripts, so they are available and accessible to researchers. Trivia In promoting the country, the ministry often created promotional films for the country. In 2015, the ministry gained controversy after axing a scene from a $4 million-dollar promotional involving Julianne Moore due to her allegedly "poor acting". Ruhsar Demirel, of the Nationalist Movement Party, asked social affairs minister Ayşenur İslam: "How reasonable do you find promoting Turkey with the body of such names and women? How do you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beykoz
Beykoz (), also known as Beicos and Beikos, is a district in Istanbul, Turkey at the northern end of the Bosphorus on the Anatolian side. The name is believed to be a combination of the words bey and ''kos'', which means "village" in Farsi. Beykoz includes an area from the streams of Küçüksu and Göksu (just before Anadoluhisarı) to the opening of the Bosphorus into the Black Sea, and the villages in the hinterland as far as the Riva creek. The mayor is Murat Aydın ( AKP). History The mouth of the Bosphorus in ancient times was used as a place of sacrifice, specifically to petition Zeus and Poseidon for a safe journey across the Black Sea, without which no one would venture into those stormy waters. The first people to settle the upper-Bosphorus were Thracians and Greeks and the ancient name for the area was Amikos (Αμικός in Greek) or Amnicus (Αμνικός), named after a Thracian king. However, the area has changed hands many times since. As well as being a str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office
A box office or ticket office is a place where ticket (admission), tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a Wicket gate, wicket. By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a synonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or a stadium. ''Box office'' business can be measured in the terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry. To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, because the movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Journal Of Women's Studies
The ''European Journal of Women's Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of women's studies. It is published quarterly by SAGE Publications. The journal's editors-in-chief are Kathy Davis (Utrecht University) and Gail Lewis (Open University). It publishes articles, reviews, conference reports, topical and polemical pieces, and overviews on the state of women's studies in various European countries. The journal has published special issues on subjects including women and war, gender and religion, and the politics of identification. Abstracting and indexing The ''European Journal of Women's Studies'' is abstracted and indexed in Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts, British Humanities Index, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', its 2015 impact factor is 1.160, ranking it 14th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies". See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nâzım Hikmet
Mehmed Nâzım Ran (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), Note: 403 Forbidden error received 10 October 2022. commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (), was a Turkish-Polish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements".Selected poems, Nazim Hikmet translated by Ruth Christie, Richard McKane, Talat Sait Halman, Anvil press Poetry, 2002, p.9 Described as a "romantic communist"Saime Goksu, Edward Timms, ''Romantic Communist: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet'', St. Martin's Press, New York and "romantic revolutionary", he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages. Family According to Nâzım Hikmet, he was of paternal Turkish and maternal German, Polish, Georgian descent. Nâzım Hikmet's mother came from a distinguished, cosmopolitan family with predominantly Circassian ( Adyghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolunay Soysert
Dolunay Soysert (born 25 March 1973) is a Turkish actress. Soysert first rose to prominence with her role as Latife Hanım in the movie ''Cumhuriyet''. She appeared in various plays staged at Istanbul City Theatres, Dostlar Theatre, Craft Theatre, and Toy Theatre. She is also one of the founders of Istanbul Folk Theatre. For her performance on stage in an adaptation of ''Insignificance'', she was given the Most Successful Actress award at the 9th Afife Theatre Awards. In addition to her career on stage and television, she has appeared in a number of movies, including ''Veda'' (2010), ''Ölümden Kalma'' (2012), and '' Yarım Kalan Mucize'' (2012). Life and career Dolunay Soysert was born on 25 March 1973 in Adana. Her family moved to Ankara when she was three or four years old due to her father's job requirements. She spent her primary and middle school years in Ankara, and finished high school in Istanbul at Private Mode College. After graduating from college, she simultaneous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Özge Özberk
Özge Özberk (born 13 August 1976) is a Turkish actress who has acted in many films, television series and plays. Biography Özge Özberk was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1976. Her brother is actor, Özgür Özberk. She studied theater at Istanbul University and Mujdat Gezen Arts Centre. She gained recognition with her role in the sci-fi comedy film, GORA. Her most recent roles are in the films 'Babam ve Oğlum' 'Mavi Gözlü Dev', '120' and series 'Geniş Zamanlar'. Her historical drama series are 'Kırık Kanatlar' and 'Çemberimde Gül Oya'. She played in many popular series and films. As of 2013, she stars in teen comedy drama Pis Yedili. In 2017, she started a new TV series "Kalbimdeki Deniz" as "Deniz" Filmography Movies *2012 - ''N'apcaz Şimdi?'' *2008 - '' A.R.O.G'' *2008 - '' 120'' *2007 - ''Mavi Gözlü Dev'' *2005 - ''Babam ve Oğlum'' *2004 - ''G.O.R.A. ''G.O.R.A.: A Space Movie'' ( tr, G.O.R.A.: Bir Uzay Filmi) is a 2004 Turkish science-fiction comedy film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uğur Polat
Uğur Polat (born 4 September 1961, in Istanbul) is a Turkish actor. He graduated from theatre department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He was lecturer in Anadolu University. He joined the Ankara Art Theatre (Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu). He has appeared in more than forty films. His first film was ''Mist'' in 1988 in which he played the role of Erol. He had leading roles in hit series Yeditepe İstanbul, Sultan Makamı and comedy crime series Ulan İstanbul. He was cast in popular series such as "Yargı", "Kayıp Şehir", "Son", "Türkan", "Sıcak Saatler", "Kurtuluş". Filmography Theatre * '' Çehov Makinası'': Matei Vișniec - İstanbul Devlet Tiyatrosu - 2012 * '' Kredi Kartı-Vak'a aaaaa!'': Cüneyt Çalışkur - İstanbul Devlet Tiyatrosu - 2010 * '' Vur Yağmala Yeniden'': Mark Ravenhill - Tiyatro Dot * '' Sansürcü'': Anthony Neilson - Tiyatro Dot * '' Ben Ruhi Bey Nasılım'': Edip Cansever - İstanbul Devlet Tiyatrosu - 2001 * ''Patron'': Tarık Buğra - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
