Hasan Karacadağ (born 20 October 1976) is a Turkish film director. He has directed more than twelve films since 1999. His ''Dabbe'' film series has gone on to become a cult classic due to its distribution on Netflix. He was the director that introduced

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into Turkish cinema. Following the

2016 Turkish coup attempt In the evening of 15 July 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces, organized as the Peace at Home Council, attempted a coup d'état against state institutions, including the government and president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. They attempted ...

, he is one of the 3,000 people who shared posts about the coup on

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, were detained, and had an arrest warrant issued for them.

Early life and career

Karacadağ was born on October 20, 1976, in Province Şanlıurfa,

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. In 1998, he completed the Nippon eizo-juku Cinema Directing department in Japan. He directed many short films, documentaries, TV movies and TV series in Turkey and

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. He participated in more than 50 international film festivals and won awards. He became known with the movie Hummadruz, which was shown at the International

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in 1999. In 2016, he released the movie ''Magi'', starring Michael Madsen and Stephen Baldwin, which marked as Karacadağ's final movie.

Issuing an arrest warrant against him

After the

, more than 3,000 people who were communicating about the coup on

were caught and arrest warrants were issued. One of them was Hasan Karacadağ. Karacadağ, who uses the name Can Batuta, shared on Twitter, "April-May 2017. Chemical attack awaiting Turkish soldiers in the Syrian swamp. Follow me, I will write." It is known that Karacadağ, who escaped from

, resides in

. He was never seen again after his last post on his official

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Early life and career

Issuing an arrest warrant against him

Selected filmography

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