List Of Turkish Film Directors

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Ömer Lütfi Akad Omar/Umar ( ar, عمر) is a masculine given name that has different origins in three languages across the world (Arabic, Hebrew and Germanic) even though it is best known as an Arabic name and the name Omar was mentioned in the Old Testament. Oma ...

- film director * Fatih Akın - German film director of Turkish descent *

Zeki Alasya Zeki Alasya (18 April 1943 – 8 May 2015) was a Turkish actor and film director. Alasya was of Turkish Cypriot descent and was related to Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha. Biography Alasya was born in Istanbul. After studying at Robert College, h ...

- film director, actor *

Mustafa Altıoklar Mustafa Altıoklar (born 1958) is a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He is the chairman of the Turkish Film Directors Association and is fluent in English. Although he graduated from the medical faculty of Istanbul University and s ...

- film director, producer * Süha Arın - film director *

Remzi Aydın Jöntürk Remzi Aydın Jöntürk (September 15, 1936 – September 2, 1987) was a Turkish filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He directed more than 72 feature films in his long career. Jöntürk is credited for creating and directing some of t ...

, 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 Sinan Çetin (born March 1, 1953) is a Turkish film director, actor, and producer. He won the best director award at the 12th Dhaka International Film Festival. Çetin was born as one of the eight children of a customs officer. He is of maternal ...

- film director * Zeki Demirkubuz - film director * Haldun Dormen - film director, actor *

Ertem Eğilmez Ertem Eğilmez (18 February 1929, in Trabzon – 21 September 1989, in Istanbul, Turkey) was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known as the name behind some of the most popular films in Turkish film history. Many of these wer ...

- 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 Şerif Gören ( el, Σερίφ Γκιορέν, Seríf Gkiorén, born 1944 in Xanthi, Greece) is a Turkish film director. Aside from important movies under his own signature, he is also the winner of the Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") award in Cannes ...

- film director * Yılmaz Güney - Turkish-Kurdish film director * Çağan Irmak - film director *

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 I ...

- film director * Türker İnanoğlu - film director * Sabri Kalic - film director * Semih Kaplanoğlu - film director * Ömer Kavur - film director (1944–2005) *

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 C ...

- film director and screenwriter *

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 K� ...

- disabled female short film director *

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 l ...

- film director, opera singer, actress and screenwriter * Zülfü Livaneli - film director, composer * Ali Özgentürk - film director * Ferzan Özpetek - film director * Zeki Ökten - film director * Yavuz Özkan - film director * Halit Refiğ - film director (1934–2009) * Emre Şahin, film director *

Osman Fahir Seden Osman Fahir Seden, usually credited as Osman F. Seden (March 22, 1924 – September 1, 1998), was a Turkish film director, screenwriter and film producer. Filmography Osman directed and wrote for over 120 films between 1955 and 1989. *''They P ...

- film director (1924–1998) *

Osman Sınav Osman Sınav (born 1956) is a Turkish director, producer and screenwriter. Biography He studied Art and also finished courses in Textile Design, cinema and television at the Istanbul State Fine Arts Academy. He worked as a copywriter from 1979 to ...

- film director * Türkan Şoray - actress and film director *

Kartal Tibet Kartal Tibet (27 March 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Turkish actor and film director. Some of his famous films include ''Ölmeyen Aşk'', ''Dağlar Kızı'', ''Senede Bir Gün'', ''Sultan'', ''Zübük'', ''Gol Kralı'', and '' Şalvar Davası''. T ...

- film director, actor * Yavuz Turgul - film director *

Fuat Uzkınay Fuat Uzkınay (b. 1888 - Istanbul, d. 29 March 1956 - Istanbul) was the first Turkish filmmaker. After finishing Istanbul Highschool, he took physics and chemistry classes at Istanbul University. While he started to work at a high school ...

- film director (1889–1956) * Memduh Ün - film director *

Mennan Yapo Mennan Yapo (born 1966) is a German film director, director, screenwriter, film producer, producer and actor. Born in Munich to Turkish parents, Yapo has been in the film business since 1988, working in various assistant jobs and as a publicist ...

, director, screenwriter, producer and actor *

Atıf Yılmaz Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki (9 December 1925 – 5 May 2006) was a renowned Turkey, Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenp ...

- film director, (1925–2006) * Derviş Zaim - novelist and filmmaker (Turkish Cypriot) (born 1964) {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Turkish Film Directors Film directors

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