Later, both Stone and Hayes expressed their regret on how Turkish people were portrayed in the movie.

* Ahmet Özhan – Singer of Turkish Sufi music, and movie actor

Public sentiment in Turkey was whipped up against Kusturica to the point that a couple of days after Kusturica left Turkey, there were news reports about a mob of Turkish youths in Antalya physically assaulting Swiss actor Michael Neuenschwander ( in town to promote his movie 180 ° – Wenn deine Welt plötzlich Kopf steht ) because they mistook him for Kusturica due to apparent physical resemblance between the two.

The movie was critically well-received, particularly because of its accurate depiction of the Turkish – Kurdish conflict, its handling of the characters ' sexuality ( three of which are gay ), and the acting prowess of the nonprofessional actors.

Berksoy started her acting career the role of Semiha in the first Turkish sound movie İstanbul Sokaklarında directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul in 1931.

Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam ( The Man Who Saved the World ) is a 1982 Turkish-made adventure movie commonly known as Turkish Star Wars because of its notorious use of unauthorized footage from Star Wars worked into the film.

He first came to fame in the Netherlands as the cinematographer for the 1973 movie Turkish Delight, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven.

In the Turkish movie industry ( Yeşilçam ) he has always been the tough guy who always fought against injustice.

The first Turkish movie, a documentary produced by Fuat Uzkinay in 1914, depicted the destruction of the Russian monument in Ayastefanos by the public.

The songs were made for him and he became the first-ever Turkish footballer who played himself in a movie based on his life while actively pursuing his career.

* Yasemin, a 1988 Turkish / German movie

It is probably the first Turkish movie to deal with the topic of homosexuality and change of gender role.

Currently he's attempting his first experience as an actor in a Turkish movie called Dünyayı Kurtaran Adamın Oğlu ( The Son of the Man Who Saved the World ).

* Turkish Wikipedia article about the movie

* Official movie page of Devrim ( in Turkish )

Busey appeared in the 2006 Turkish nationalist film Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, ( Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak, in Turkish ).

The film, accused of fascism, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, tells the story of the U. S. Army run amok in Iraq and brought into check by a Turkish soldier ; Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York City, London and Tel Aviv.

Mustafa Altıoklar ( born 1958, Ankara ) is a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter.

By winning the award of " The Best New Coming Director " with his first feature film, Balcony, at Ankara Film Festival in 1992, Altioklar drew the attention of Turkish film industry to his work.

With his second feature film, Istanbul Under My Wings ( 1995 ), he also brought an unexpected vivacity to the Turkish Cinema whose film production had decreased dramatically and whose number of viewers had neared to nothing during the past 20 years.

While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.

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 specialised in physiotherapy, he decided to pursue a career as a director, especially after the success of his short film The Scar.

Category: Turkish film directors

* September 7 – Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor

* Turkish Bey – The Turkish Bey who captures Lawrence in Daraa was — according to Lawrence himself — General Hajim Bey ( in Turkish, Hacim Muhiddin Bey ), though he is not named in the film.

The attack on Aqaba ( one of the more stirring and memorable scenes in the film with a spectacular pan shot of dust rising up from behind the charging Arabs while Turkish cannons are aimed harmlessly out to sea ) was reconstructed in a dried river bed in southern Spain ; it consisted of over 300 buildings and was meticulously based on the town's appearance in 1917.

The Tafas massacre was filmed in Ouarzazate, Morocco, with Moroccan army troops substituting for the Turkish army ; however, Lean was unable to film as much as he wanted because the soldiers were uncooperative and impatient.

* Turkish, a character in Snatch ( film ) ( 2000 )

The film begins in the late 1890s, as young Greek Stavros Topouzoglou ( Giallelis ), living in an impoverished village in Turkish Anatolia witnesses brutal oppression by the Turkish authorities of the Greek and Armenian minorities.

* Boreas ( film ), 2006 Turkish short drama film

Ferrer's other notable film roles include the Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), Herod Antipas in The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), a budding Nazi in Ship of Fools, a pompous professor in Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy ( 1982 ), the treacherous Professor Siletski in the 1983 remake of To Be or Not to Be, and Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV in Dune in 1984.

The film was about Bulgarian rebels against the Turkish occupation.

* Turkish Delight, a 1973 Dutch film directed by Paul Verhoeven

ARF supported also Harutyun Krikor Levonian and Alexander Elbekyan, sentenced to twenty years of prison for the assassination of Galip Balkar, Turkish ambassador in Belgrade, both by money and statements of support ; and Max Hraïr Kilndjian, sentenced to two years of jail as an accessory in the attempt of murder against Turkish ambassador in Switzerland.

Established in 1945 in Nuremberg by Max Grundig, the company changed hands several times before becoming part of the Turkish Koç Holding group.

In 1968 Culp also made an uncredited cameo appearance as an inebriated Turkish waiter on Get Smart, the spy-spoof comedy series, in an I Spy parody episode titled " Die Spy ".

One of his most famous poems is " The Turkish Trench Dog ".

Admiral Rozhestvensky, a veteran of the Turkish war, had a fiery temper when dealing with a subordinate, and both officers and men knew to stand clear of " Mad Dog " when a subordinate either disobeyed orders, was incompetent, or both.

* Kangal Dog Turkish / Anatolian Shepherd

Dog Tails is a short story collection by Turkish writer Aziz Nesin republished in 2000 by Southmoor Studios, in English language translation by Joseph S. Jacobson.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up at the toes.

However, following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Anatolia was defined by the Turkish government as being effectively co-terminous with Asian Turkey.

The Osmanli ruler Osman I was the first Turkish ruler who minted coins in his own name in 1320s, for it bears the legend " Minted by Osman son of Ertugul ".

His real name was Muhammad bin Da ' ud Chaghri, and for his military prowess, personal valour, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which means " Heroic Lion " in Turkish.

While the Byzantine Empire was to continue for nearly another four centuries, and the Crusades would contest the issue for some time, the victory at Manzikert signalled the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia.

Ahmed I ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد اول Aḥmed-i evvel, ) or Ahmed Bakhti ( April 18, 1590 – November 22, 1617 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.

Ahmed II Khan Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثانى Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > ānī ) < span dir =" ltr ">( February 25, 1643 – February 6, 1695 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695.

Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

After the Ottoman conquest of Greece, the Parthenon was used as the garrison headquarters of the Turkish army, and the Erechtheum was turned into the Governor's private Harem.

His relics, now consisting of only his skull, are venerated in the Church of St. Titus, Heraklion, Crete to which it was returned in 1966 after being removed to Venice during the Turkish occupation.

In 1529-1530 he was also charged with reinforcing certain city fortifications in response to the Turkish threat.

He and his family were pensioned and one of them aided in the defence of Aegina against the Turks, in 1537, was captured with his family and died in a Turkish dungeon.

The republic should pay a bakshish to the Turkish governor of the Morea and to the Voevode who was stationed at the frontier of Thermisi ( opposite Hydra ).

The name Afyon Kara Hisar ( literally opium black castle in Turkish ), since opium was widely grown here and there is a castle on a black rock.

The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.