İsmet Hürmüzlü (1938 – 19 January 2013)
was an
Iraqi Turkmen
The Iraqi Turkmens (also spelled as Turkoman and Turcoman; tr, Irak Türkmenleri), also referred to as Iraqi Turks, Turkish-Iraqis, the Turkish minority in Iraq, and the Iraqi-Turkish minority ( ar, تركمان العراق; tr, Irak Türkleri ...
actor, screenwriter and director. He lived most of his life in
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
.
İsmet Hürmüzlü was born in
Kerkuk
Kirkuk ( ar, كركوك, ku, کەرکووک, translit=Kerkûk, , tr, Kerkük) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located north of Baghdad. The city is home to a diverse population of Turkmens, Arabs, Kurds, ...
,
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
. In the 1950s, he joined the Kerkuk Turkmen Theatre as co-founder. Later he came to Turkey and admitted to
Ankara State Conservatory
The Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory ( tr, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Ankara Devlet Konservatuvarı), the first conservatory to be founded in the Republic of Turkey, was established in 1936 by a directive of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
...
in 1961. After graduating from the Conservatory, he started to work in
State Theatres of Turkey. In the 1970s, Hürmüzlü founded the Çağlar Art Theatre and tried
experimental theatre
Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre), inspired largely by Wagner's concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular ...
forms. He was assigned as deputy director-general of State Theatres in the 1980s.
Hürmüzlü was awarded with the Order of Respect by Almaty Uygur State Theatre,
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
. He received the "Honor Award" from the Sweden House of Culture.
He died in
Ankara
Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...
, Turkey on 19 January 2013 and was buried at the
Karşıyaka Cemetery.
References
External links
SinemaTürk page*
1938 births
2013 deaths
People from Kirkuk
Iraqi Turkmen people
Date of birth unknown
Burials at Karşıyaka Cemetery, Ankara
Iraqi emigrants to Turkey
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