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Sanatçılar Park
The Akatlar Sanatçılar Parkı or Artists' Park is a public park operated by the Beşiktaş municipality in Akatlar, Beşiktaş. It is the home of many sculptures of famous Turkish artists and also hosts theater performances and other activities. The park aims to show a piece of all 7 branches of art through the many busts and hand imprints of famous Turkish artists found inside the park. These include busts of Kemal Sunal, Barış Manço, Sadri Alışık and Bedia Muvahhit which were sculpted by Gürdal Duyar. The park also has a lot of green space and includes a 1500m2 running track and has other sports oriented areas. The park is free to enter. In July 2022 the park was renamed to Cüneyt Arkın Sanatçılar Parkı in memory of Arkın who died June 2022. The park was opened in 2003, is about 480 decare in size. There is a cafeteria located in the park that is operated by the Beşiktaş municipality. It is known as the ''Sanatçılar Kafe'' and is open from 8 A.M. to 11 P ...
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Türkan Şoray
Türkan Şoray (born 28 June 1945) is a Turkish actress, writer and film director. She is known as "Sultan" of the Cinema of Turkey. She started her career in 1960, and won her first award as the most successful actress at the 1st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for the movie '' Acı Hayat''. Having appeared in more than 222 films, Şoray has starred in the most feature films for a female actress worldwide. On 12 March 2010, Şoray was chosen as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in Turkey, about which she said: "I think there is nothing that cannot be done with love. If we combine power with love, we can overcome many problems". Together with Hülya Koçyiğit, Filiz Akın and Fatma Girik, she is an icon for a golden age in Turkish cinematography and is regarded as one of the four most important actresses in Turkish cinema. Out of these actresses, Şoray is the only one who also pursued a career in film directing, and directed the movies ''Dönüş'' (1972), ''Azap'' (1973), ''B ...
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Bedia Muvahhit
Emine Bedia Muvahhit (1896 – 20 January 1994) was a Turkish stage and movie actress. She is remembered as one of the first Muslim movie actresses in Turkey debuting in 1923. Personal life She was born in 1896 to Ahmet Şekip Bey, a prosecutor from profession, and his wife Emine in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. She began her primary education at Saint Antoine School on Büyükada, and went on at Kadıköy Terakki School for secondary education. Then, she studied at the French language Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul. She could speak French and Greek as foreign languages. Bedia Muvahhit was employed in 1914 as a switchboard operator at the state-owned telephone company in Istanbul becoming one of the first Muslim women in the Ottoman Empire to work at the public service sector. Following a campaign of a newly established journal and an association for defending women's rights, the post administration decided to replace the telephone operators, who were in the beginni ...
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Sezen Aksu
Sezen Aksu (; born Fatma Sezen Yıldırım; 13 July 1954) is a Turkish singer, songwriter and producer. She is one of the most successful Turkish people, Turkish singers, having sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her nicknames include the "Queen of Turkish Pop" and "''Minik Serçe''" ("Little Sparrow"). Aksu's influence on Turkish pop music, Turkish pop and world music has continued since her debut in 1975, and has been reinforced by her patronage of and collaboration with many other musicians, including Yonca Evcimik, Sertab Erener, Şebnem Ferah, Aşkın Nur Yengi, Hande Yener, Yıldız Tilbe, Işın Karaca, Seden Gürel, Harun Kolçak and Levent Yüksel. Sezen Aksu is widely known as a successful songwriter. Her work with Tarkan (singer), Tarkan resulted in continental hits like "Şımarık" and "Şıkıdım" and her collaboration with Goran Bregović widened her international audience. In 2010, NPR named her as one of the "50 Great Voices" of the world. Biography Sezen ...
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Kuzgun Acar
Abdülahet Kuzgun Çetin Acar (28 February 1928 – 4 February 1976) was an Afro-Turk sculptor well known for his works in metal. He is best known for his abstract sculpture, abstract sculptures and is considered one of the pioneers of modern sculptures in Turkey. One of his famous sculptures is ''Kuşlar'' ("The Birds"), which he created in 1967. Private life Kuzgun Acar was born in Istanbul to Nazmi Acar and his wife Ayşe Zehra, who was a sub-Saharan African woman of either West or Central African origin, arriving from a Libyan port, or from Ethiopian origin . Although his father Nazmi Acar was a well-to-do businessman he initially refused Kuzgun, perhaps because of his dark complexion, skin color (the forename ''Kuzgun'' involves a pun; it means "Raven" in Turkish and seems to make reference to the saying “The raven sees her young as a falcon”). Kuzgun and his mother (who soon afterwards divorced her father) lived in poverty during his childhood and youth. He graduated ...
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Nâzım Hikmet
Mehmed Nâzım Ran (17 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), Note: 403 Forbidden error received 10 October 2022. commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (), was a Turkish people, Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements".Selected poems, Nazim Hikmet translated by Ruth Christie, Richard McKane, Talat Sait Halman, Anvil press Poetry, 2002, p.9 Described as a "romantic communist"Saime Goksu, Edward Timms, ''Romantic Communist: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet'', St. Martin's Press, New York and a "romantic revolutionary", he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than 50 languages. Family According to Nâzım Hikmet, he was of paternal Turkish and maternal German, Polish, French and Georgian descent. His mother came from a distinguished cosmopolitan family with predominantly-Circassians, Cir ...
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Cüneyt Arkın
Fahrettin Cüreklibatır (7 September 1937 – 28 June 2022), better known by his stage name Cüneyt Arkın, was a Turkish film actor, director, producer and physician. Having starred in somewhere around 300 movies and TV series, he is widely considered one of the most prominent Turkish actors of all time. Arkın's films have ranged from well-received dramas to mockbusters throughout his career spanning four decades. With Fatma Girik, he played in Sevişmek Yasak, Kolsuz Kahraman, Köroğlu, Vatan ve Namık Kemal, Büyük Yemin, Satın Alınan Koca, Murat ile Nazlı, Gönülden yaralılar, Önce Vatan, Gelincik. Early in his career, Arkın became known for starring in historical dramas taking place during the first centuries of the Ottoman Empire and Anatolian Seljuks, such as ''Malkoçoğlu Cem Sultan'' and ''Battal Gazi''. While gaining success with such action-based films, he also took part in political films in the late 1970s, the most famous of those being ''The Adam Trilog ...
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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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Sadri Alışık
Sadri Alışık (born Mehmet Sadrettin Alışık; 5 April 1925 – 18 March 1995) was a Turkish stage and movie actor, and one of the most loved comedians in Turkey. He was the husband of Çolpan İlhan. Biography He was a prolific actor, appearing in popular cinema and television. His movies often depicted poor, uneducated people of society, who were nevertheless happy and yet still believed in love. His most notable works were filmed during the 1960s and 1970s. His series of comedic movies titled "''Turist Ömer''" were also popular. He also had a leading role in the widely viewed Turkish television series, "''Kartallar Yüksek Uçar''". Sadri Alışık and his cinema partner Ayhan Işık studied at picture department of Fine Art State Academy. He was also very interested in poetry and published his poems in a book called "''Bir Ömürlük İstanbul''" or ''Istanbul of a Lifetime''. He died on 18 March 1995. was laid to rest at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery in Istanbul. Lega ...
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Gürdal Duyar
Gürdal Duyar (20 August 1935 – 18 April 2004) was a Turkish sculptor who is known for his monuments to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Atatürk and his Bust (sculpture), busts of famous people. His art is characterized as having a Modern sculpture, modern Expressionism, expressionist style that is balanced with Abstract art, abstraction. He is considered one of the pioneers of abstract sculpture, modern figurative sculpture in Turkey. Duyar was also a painter and is noted for his Drawing, sketches, but his best-known works are the public sculptures placed in Istanbul's parks and public squares. Duyar was a student of Rudolf Belling and Ali Hadi Bara at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, State Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. After graduating, he spent some time abroad. At the start of his career as a freelance artist, Duyar worked on sculpture, especially busts, in Belgium, France and Switzerland. He later returned to Turkey, where he became known for his Atatürk monuments, inc ...
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