Melis Sezen
Melis Sezen (born 2 January 1997) is a Turkish actress. She is best known for her roles in ''Tainted Love'' (2019), ''The Miracle 2: Love'' (2019), ''The Unfaithful'' (2020–2022), ''Gülcemal'' (2023–2024), and ''Genius'' (2024–present). In 2021, Sezen won the Golden Butterfly Award for Rising Star. Life and career Sezen was born on 2 January 1997 in Silivri, Istanbul, and completed her high school education at Selimpaşa Atatürk Anatolian High School. Her paternal family members are Macedonian Albanian immigrants, while her maternal family members are who immigrated from Thessaloniki, Greece. Sezen has a younger brother and her family engages in trade. In an interview, she mentioned that her family was supportive of her decision to start working as a theatre actress, and in another interview she adds that it was her mother who discovered her interest in acting and enrolled her in Müjdat Gezen Art Center. Sezen received drama education from the age of 12, and received ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Istanbul
Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics of Turkey, population of Turkey. Istanbul is among the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest cities in Europe and List of cities proper by population, in the world by population. It is a city on two continents; about two-thirds of its population live in Europe and the rest in Asia. Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus—one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its area of is coterminous with Istanbul Province. Istanbul's climate is Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean. The city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. Byzantium was founded on the Sarayburnu promontory by Greek colonisation, Greek col ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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CNN Türk
Cable News Network Türk (known as CNN Türk) is a Turkish free-to-air television news channel, launched on 11 October 1999 as the local affiliate of American channel CNN. It broadcasts exclusively for Turkey and it is owned by Demirören Group under the licensing from Warner Bros. Discovery's EMEA division. CNN Türk Radio CNN Türk Radio, went on the air on November 22, 2001. Last-minute developments, in-depth analyses, economic agenda, evaluations by experts, important names of the business world and economic staff, sports news from Turkey and the world can be listened to at any time, and programs of special interest can also be followed via radio. CNN TÜRK Radio is the audio broadcasting company of CNN TÜRK, which was established as a joint venture between Demirören Holding and Time Warner. As of September 21, 2020, the radio frequency in Istanbul has been changed to 92.6. Controversies CNN Türk was one of the Turkish news channels which was criticised for not cov ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Onur Ünlü
Onur Ünlü (born 24 June 1973) is a Turkish film director, screenwriter, poet and actor. He is best known for hit surreal comedy series Leyla ile Mecnun ''Leyla ile Mecnun'' (''Leyla and Mecnun'') is a Turkish television comedy series. The series, set in Istanbul and directed by Onur Ünlü, premiered in 2011 on TRT. It is a surreal, absurdist comedy revolving around the parody of the poetic ... and surreal drama series Şubat. Filmography Web series TV series Films Short Films As Actor Series *Deli Yürek *Leyla ile Mecnun *Ben de Özledim Film *Beni Sevenler Listesi *Momê *Gerçek Kesit: Manyak Awards * Golden Orange Award for Best Screenplay (2009) * Golden Orange Award for Best Screenplay (2014) References External links * 1973 births Living people People from İzmit Turkish film directors Turkish male film actors Turkish male screenwriters {{Turkey-actor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mahsun Kırmızıgül
Mahsun Kırmızıgül (born Abdullah Bazencir, 26 March 1969) is a Turkish singer-songwriter, actor and director, scriptwriter, music composer, and producer of Zaza Kurd descent. Mahsun Kırmızıgül is also known as a businessman for his partnership in one of the leading music production companies, Prestij Müzik, in Turkey until 2002. Life Mahsun Kırmızıgül was born on 26 March 1969 in Hani, Turkey. His birth name is Abdullah Bazencir and his family is of Zaza Kurd origin. He is one of the 22 children of his father Çerkes Bezencir and mother Faika Bezencir. He studied at primary and secondary schools in Diyarbakır. He worked to contribute to his family from an early age. He sang for weddings to earn money. In 1984, he was invited to Istanbul to make an album for Güneş Plak. He started to study in the Voice Department of Istanbul University-Turkish Music Conservatory. Kırmızıgül started his music studies in 1980 and made eight amateur albums. His professional d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Doctor Foster (TV Series)
''Doctor Foster'' is a British psychological thriller television series that debuted on BBC One on 9 September 2015. Created and written by Mike Bartlett (playwright), Mike Bartlett, the series is about Gemma Foster (Suranne Jones), a doctor who suspects her husband Simon (Bertie Carvel) is having an affair. After she follows several lines of enquiry, she slowly begins to lose her sanity as her life unravels from what secrets she finds. The storyline was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Medea, a wronged wife who Filicide, kills her children and poisons her husband's new bride. Internationally, the series was brought to many countries by different networks (see #Broadcast, Broadcast). The second series of the show started on 5 September 2017 and concluded on 3 October 2017. A future third series has been played down by lead actress Jones, citing incompatibility of schedules. Bartlett has said while there is more to explore with Gemma Foster's story, he would bring the show b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kanal D
Kanal D (English: Channel D) is a nationwide television channel in Turkey that is part of Demirören Group. It was founded by Ayhan Şahenk and Aydın Doğan in 1993. The network has also run an international channel, Euro D, since 1996, which is available online, and had the first high definition channel in Turkey, Kanal D HD. The text 'KANAL D' is not displayed in its Turkish broadcast. Only the blue earth section of the logo is displayed throughout commercial sections.Turkish Radio Law requires TV broadcasters have distinct logos during regular content and commercials. These logos serve as call signs of the station. Public service clips can be shown with either logo. Kanal D is broadcast via satellite to 27 countries. Kanal D HD Kanal D started its high definition broadcasting on October 1, 2006 under the name DHDTV. It is Türkiye's first national high definition television channel. After stopping its broadcasts for a short while, it started broadcasting again on Septe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Caner Cindoruk
Caner Cindoruk (born 17 April 1980) is a Turkish actor and theatre director. He is best known series for television series ''Hanımın Çiftliği'', '' The Unfaithful'', ''Kadın'' and family comedy drama series ''Aramızda Kalsın''. Life and career Caner Cindoruk was born on 17 April 1980 in Adana. His maternal family is of Yörük and paternal family is of Kurdish origin. His mother is Müşerref, and his father is the story writer Zafer Doruk, a two times recipient of Orhan Kemal Story Award. He has two siblings, Münir Can Cindoruk and Taner Cindoruk, and first became interested in theater under the influence of his family. His uncle, Erdal Cindoruk, is a theater actor. Cindoruk's childhood years were spent in the backstage of theaters. During his secondary and high school years, he always found a piece on the stage, and took part in various plays during his university years. He is a graduate of Çukurova University, Department of Business Administration. His first profe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cansu Dere
Cansu Dere (born 14 October 1980, Ankara) is a Turkish actress, model, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Turkey Universe 2000. Early Life Her mother partly descends from the Turkish community in Thessaloniki, Greece, while her father descends from the Turkish community in Bulgaria. She completed her primary and secondary education in İzmir. In 2000, she was due to represent Turkey in the Miss Universe pageant but, Cansu withdrew due to political issues between Turkey and Cyprus (Host country of the Miss Universe in 2000); Turkey had no relations with the Republic of Cyprus. She was forbidden by the Turkish Government to travel to the 2000 Miss Universe pageant in Cyprus unless she could pass through Northern Cyprus, which was then forbidden for any visitor to the Republic of Cyprus. The competition committee in Turkey made arrangements for her to travel through Athens, but the day before her departure the government refused to let her go, "for pol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fanatik (Turkey)
''Fanatik'' is a Turkish daily-published and online sports newspaper. History ''Fanatik'' was founded on 20 November 1995. ''Fanatik'' is owned by Demirören Group Demirören Group is a Turkish conglomerate company. Its properties include Milangaz (a liquefied petroleum gas distributor with 9% share of the Turkish market), the Demirören İstiklal shopping mall in Taksim Square, as well as several newspap ... since April 2018, following a group of companies acquisition of previous owners Doğan Holding. Since 1995, the paper has also been distributed in Germany and Austria, but the distribution was canceled in Germany in 2010. In Germany, the circulation dropped under 8,000 copies per edition. ''Fanatik'' also offers web TV. In 1996, ''Fanatik'' held a daily average circulation of 270,517 copies. Since 2000, ''Fanatik'' is a member of the European Sports Magazines. References External links * 1995 establishments in Turkey Bağcılar Daily newspapers published ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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COVID-19 Pandemic In Turkey
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms ( dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms ( respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complications result in death. Some people continue to experience a range of effects ( long COVID) for mo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Akşam
''Akşam'' (''Evening'') is a Turkish newspaper founded in 1918, owned by Zeki Yeşildağ's Türk Medya Grup (T Medya Yatırım San. ve Tic. AŞ.) since 2013. In 2013 it had a circulation of around 100,000. History ''Akşams founders in 1918 included Necmettin Sadak, Kazım Şinasi Dersan, Falih Rıfkı Atay and Ali Naci Karacan. Former editors include Doğan Özgüden (1964–1966).Info-TürkInfo-Türk Editors/ref> In 2010, former editor Semra Pelek and editorial manager Mustafa Dolu were charged in relation to reporting on the Ergenekon trials. ''Akşam'' was owned by the Çukurova Media Group from 1997 to 2013, and previously Mehmet Ali Ilıcak. It is currently owned by the Turkish government's TMSF. Shortly after it was acquired by the TMSF, a number of journalists were fired, with the former AKP deputy Mehmet Ocaktan replacing editor of five years İsmail Küçükkaya, and at least four journalists who had been critical of the government being fired. On 19 July 2013 ''Ak� ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death and state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping Atatürk's reforms, reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secularism in Turkey, secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a Secularism, secularist and Turkish nationalism, nationalist, Atatürk's reforms, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. He came to prominence for his role in securing the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Gallipoli (1915) during World War I. Although not directly involved in the Armenian genocide, his government would later grant immunity to remaining perpetrators. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, he led the Turkish National Movement, which resisted the Empire's partition ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |