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Güven Kıraç
Güven Kıraç (born 5 April 1960) is a Turkish actor. He won the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 41st International Film Festival of India. Biography Kıraç was born on 5 April 1960 in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied theater at the conservatory of Mimar Sinan University Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (, or MSGSÜ) is a public university, public Art school, art university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university's campus is located in the Fındıklı, Beyoğlu, Fındıklı, Beyoğlu. The university was established .... He is of Abkhaz descent. Filmography References * Biyografi.info ''Biography of Güven Kıraç'' * Biyografi.net ''Biography of Güven Kıraç'' External links * 1960 births Living people Turkish male film actors Turkish male television actors Turkish people of Abkhazian descent IFFI Best Actor (Male) winners Male actors from Istanbul {{Turkey-actor-stub ...
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Sabah (newspaper)
''Sabah'' is a Turkish daily newspaper, with a circulation of around 330,000 as of 2011. Its name means "morning" in Turkish language, Turkish. The newspaper was founded in İzmir by Dinç Bilgin on 22 April 1985. In 2007, the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seized the newspaper, citing a legal document that had not been disclosed to authorities when ''Sabah'' was sold in 2001. Ownership of the newspaper was given to the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey. Some of the newspaper's staffers were fired, and the paper was then sold to the Turkuvaz Media Group belonging to Çalık Holding whose CEO, Berat Albayrak, is the son-in-law of Erdoğan and whose chairman, Ahmet Çalık, has been described as a "close associate" of Erdoğan. The $1.1bn sale aroused substantial controversy in Turkey, not least because it was partially financed by $750m of loans from two state banks, VakıfBank and Halkbank, and was sold for the minimum price, with Çalık Holdi ...
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Gönül Yarası (film)
''Lovelorn'' () is a 2005 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Yavuz Turgul, starring Şener Şen as a teacher recently returned to Istanbul who must protect a nightclub singer from her violent ex-husband. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , won awards at film festivals in Antalya, Palm Springs and New York. The film was Turkey's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot Nazım, a primary school teacher, returns to Istanbul from his posting in the east . He temporarily takes on a job as a taxi driver with the help of his friend Atakan. One night he picks up Dünya, a singer at a club and after striking up a friendship, becomes her driver. While Nazım is waiting for Dünya to finish her performance one night, she is attacked by a man. Dünya is injured, and is rushed to the hospital by Nazım. Dünya reveals that he is her ex-husband Halil, who want ...
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Gönül (TV Series)
Gönül is a Turkish name and may refer to: Given name * Gönül Yazar, Turkish singer * Gönül Pultar, Turkish scholar and writer Surname * Gökhan Gönül, Turkish footballer * Vecdi Gönül Mehmet Vecdi Gönül (; born 29 November 1939) is a Turkish politician who served as the List of Ministers of National Defense of Turkey, Minister of National Defense from 3 July to 17 November 2015. He previously served in the same position from ..., Turkish politician {{DEFAULTSORT:Gonul Turkish-language surnames Turkish feminine given names Feminine given names ...
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Yeditepe İstanbul
Yeditepe may refer to: * Bezge, formerly Yeditepe, a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Yayladağı, Hatay Province, Turkey * Yeditepe (magazine), a literary magazine published in Istanbul, Turkey * Yeditepe University Yeditepe University () is a private non-profit university situated in Istanbul, Turkey. Established by the Istanbul Education and Culture Foundation ('', İSTEK Vakfı'') in 1996, Yeditepe University now claims to be the largest of the 74 priva ...
, a private foundation university in Istanbul, Turkey {{dab ...
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Organize İşler Sazan Sarmalı
Organizing or organized may refer to: * Organizing (management), a process of coordinating task goals and activities to resources * Community organizing, in which communities come together to act in their shared self-interest * Professional organizing, an industry build around creating organizational systems for individuals and businesses * Union organizing, the process of establishing trade unions ** Organizing Institute, a unit within the Organizing and Field Services Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) ** Organizing model, a broad conception of organizations such as trade unions * Organizing principle, a core assumption from which everything else by proximity can derive a classification or a value * Organizing vision, a term developed by E. Burton Swanson and Neil Ramiller that defines how a vision is formed, a vision of how to organize structures and processes in regard to an information systems innovation * ''Organi ...
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Kavşak (film)
''The Crossing'' () is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Selim Demirdelen, which is about a devoted family man who comes home from work one day to find his house deserted. The film went on general release across Turkey on and was selected for several festivals, including the 47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival and the 17th Adana "Golden Boll" International Film Festival, where it won several awards. Plot Güven works at an accounting firm and leads an ordinary life. He is happily married and has a daughter that he loves more than anything. He boasts endlessly to his colleagues about his daughter's achievements. His daughter is equally devoted to him, calling him every day when she gets home from school. After an ordinary day at work, Güven leaves his office, takes the bus. He walks on his empty street, comes home to his three-storey apartment building. He enters his apartment, changes his clothes, washes his face, and sits down on the sofa in the livin ...
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Kirpi (film)
Kirpi (“Hedgehog”) is a Turkish comedy film. It is based on a novel by Sulhi Dölek Sulhi Dölek (20 September 1948 – 7 November 2005) was a Turkish writer, satirist, mechanical engineer and navy officer. Biography Sulhi Dölek was born in Istanbul on 20 September 1948. He joined the Turkish Navy and studied in the Naval Academ .... Dölek died in 2005 and upon his last request, the novel was adopted in to a movie in 2009. Plot Reşat is a nervous and vindictive character. Whenever he feels he has been hard done by, he revenges in satirical plots. These plots are usually harmless but annoying. He likes drawing a hedgehog as his signature. When a stranger jumps the queue while he is paying his bill in a cash office he decides to revenge by frightening him by a fake telephone message. But it turns out that his opponent Tahir is also vindictive. So they began to create plots to make a mockery of each other. But somehow these plots help the police to arrest mafia gang. At the ...
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Yaşamın Kıyısında (2007 Film)
''The Edge of Heaven'' (, literally ''On the Other Side'', ) is a 2007 Turkish-German drama written and directed by Fatih Akın. The film won the Prix du scénario at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, was Germany's entry in the category Best Foreign Language Film at the 2007 Oscars, but was not nominated. After making its worldwide debut at the Cannes Film Festival in France, the film was shown at several international film festivals. It was released in Germany on 27 September 2007. Plot ;Yeter's Death Retired widower Ali Aksu (Tuncel Kurtiz), a Turkish immigrant living in the German city of Bremen, believes he has found a solution to his loneliness when he meets Yeter Öztürk (Nursel Köse). He offers her a monthly payment to stop working as a prostitute and move in with him. After receiving threats from two Turkish Muslims for the work she does, she decides to accept his offer. Ali's son, Nejat Aksu (Baki Davrak), a professor of German literature, does not have time to respond ...
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Takva (film)
''Takva: A Man's Fear of God'' () is a 2006 Turkish language film directed by Özer Kızıltan. It was a Turkish and German co-production backed by Corazón International. The film was Turkey's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot Humble and devout Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of prayer and sexual abstinence. His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the Sheikh of an Istanbul Sufi order who offers him an administrative post as a manager for the seminary properties that support a school for orphans and poor children. Muharrem's new job throws him into the modern outside world he has not experienced before. He soon witnesses conflicting attitudes and dilemmas towards alcohol, charity and honesty. He notices that he himself has become proud, domineering and even dishonest. To make matters worse, Muharrem's inner peace is unnerved by the tormenting image o ...
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Sınav (film)
''The Exam'' () is a 2006 Turkish comedy-drama film directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, about five Turkish highschool students preparing to sit for the university entry exam, who enlist the services of a professional thief, played by Jean-Claude Van Damme, to steal the papers. The film went on nationwide general release across Turkey on . Plot Five students (Mert, Sinan, Gamze, Kaan and Uluç) are set to sit for the daunting nationwide university entry exam. Desperate to get a passing grade, they try to pool their resources together and enlist the services of a professional thief/assassin (Charles) for hire to steal the papers. All five of them have good reasons to do so. For Mert, it is essential to get into university, as he promised to his mother dying of cancer. He is the head of the family, working hard to make a living, even stopped attending school. Because of that, Mert surely cannot pass the entrance exam, so he needs to find other ways. He is in love with Gamze, whom he ...
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