Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish film director, photographer, screenwriter and actor.
Yeşilçam is the sobriquet that refers to the Turkish film art and industry. It is an important part of Turkish culture, and has flourished over the years, delivering entertainment to audiences in Turkey, expatriates across Europe, and more recently prospering in the Arab world and in rare cases, the United States. The first film exhibited in the Ottoman Empire was the Lumière Brothers' 1895 film, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, which was shown in Istanbul in 1896. The first Turkish-made film was a documentary entitled Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı, directed by Fuat Uzkınay and completed in 1914. The first narrative film, Sedat Simavi's The Spy, was released in 1917. Turkey's first sound film was shown in 1931.
Uzak is a 2002 Turkish film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It was released as Distant in North America, a literal translation of its title. The movie is the winner of 31 awards including Best Actor at Cannes, Special Jury Prize at Chicago, and Best Balkan Movie at Sofia International Film Festival.
Ali Ekber Çiçek was a Turkish folk musician.
Muzaffer Özdemir is a Turkish actor. He is best known for his performance as Mahmut in Uzak.
Rıfat Ilgaz was a Turkish teacher, writer and poet.
Mete Özgencil is a Turkish songwriter, composer, music video director, singer, screenwriter and painter.
Adalet Ağaoğlu is a Turkish novelist and playwright. She is considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature. She has also written essays, memoirs, and short stories.
The 3rd Yeşilçam Awards, presented by the Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audiovisual Culture (TÜRSAK) and Beyoğlu Municipality, honored the best Turkish films of 2009 and took place on March 23, 2010, at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress and Exhibition Hall in Istanbul, Turkey. Veteran Turkish actress Filiz Akın received the Special Achievement Award.
Pazukî is a Kurdish tribe whose members live in different regions in Kurdistan as well as in and around Tehran, Iran. The tribe is mentioned in the 16th century Kurdish historical book Sharafnama by Sharaf Khan Bidlisi. There are some variants of the name Pazuki and they are known under the various names, like Bazikî, Bozukan, Bazukan etc. Pazukî was originally a tribal confederation like Rojiki Kurds. Some branches of them speak Kurmancî and the others speak Zazakî. But Henry Field (anthropologist) mentioned their Iranian branch also as a Turcophonic community almost a hundred years ago.
The UAE 1000 Guineas is a flat horse race in the United Arab Emirates for three-year-old thoroughbred fillies run at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai in February.
Mehmet Emin Toprak was a Turkish film actor.
Cem Boyner is a Turkish businessman in the textile industry, owner of department stores, and was a short-time politician.
The Ahmet Arif Literature Museum Library is a literary museum and archive dedicated to Turkish literature and named after the poet Ahmet Arif (1927–1991). Located in Diyarbakır, Turkey, the museum was established by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and opened on June 1, 2011.
The 2014 1000 Guineas Stakes was a horse race held at Newmarket Racecourse on Sunday 4 May 2014. It was the 201st running of the 1000 Guineas.
The Law Courts building is a historic building in Nicosia, Cyprus, currently located in North Nicosia. It is located on the central Sarayönü Square.
Turkmen Mountain is a mountain range in the north of Latakia region of Syria, in the area called Bayırbucak locally in Turkish, neighboring the Turkish border. The mountain range runs along the eastern length of Latakia Governorate. The area is mostly inhabited by Syrian Turkmen people and has seen military activity by the Syrian Army and Russian air strikes in late 2015. Close to 300,000 Turkmens have been displaced since the start of the Syrian civil war, especially in The Turkmens mountains, where the Government enacted a demographic change by forcing the last remaining Turkmen Families to leave to Turkey, and settled Alawite families in the areas controlled by government forces.
Cem Özer is a Turkish actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1976.
