Turkish Television Drama
Turkish drama () is a type of television series in the Turkish language made in Turkey. These dramas reflect Culture of Turkey, Turkish culture and considered by some to be the country's most well-known economic and cultural exports. It has seen significant growth since the 2000s, and had surpassed Mexico and Brazil as the second-largest exporter of television series after the United States by the mid-2010s. The television industry has played a crucial role in increasing Turkey's popularity in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North Africa. Turkish series are chiefly produced in Istanbul, following the liberalization of private television in Turkey in the 1990s. Turkish television channels producing dramas include Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, TRT, Kanal D, Show TV, Star TV (Turkish TV channel), Star TV, ATV (Turkish TV channel), ATV, Now (Turkish TV channel), Now, TV8 (Turkish TV channel), TV8, and Kanal 7. The Turkish television series market is characterized by inten ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Television Series
A television show, TV program (), or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, and cable, or distributed digitally on streaming platforms. This generally excludes breaking news or advertisements that are aired between shows or between segments of a show. A regularly recurring show is called a television series, and an individual segment of such a series is called an episode. Content is produced either in-house on a television stage with multiple cameras or produced by contract with film production companies. Episodes are usually broadcast in annual sets, which are called seasons in North America and series in other regions. A one-off television show may be called a television special, while a short series of episodes is a miniseries. A television film, or telefilm, is a feature film created for transmitting on television. Television shows are most often scheduled ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Now (Turkish TV Channel)
Now (stylized in all caps) is a Turkish free-to-air television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company EMEA. Since July 2012, the channel broadcasts in 16:9 (1080i HDTV). History The channel was originally TGRT (acronym in Turkish as: 'Türkiye Gazetesi Radyo Televizyonu'; ''Turkey Newspaper Radio Television'') and began broadcasting on 23 April 1993, under İhlas Holding. Between 2001 and 2004, TGRT was owned by Tasarruf Mevduatı Sigorta Fonu before being sold again to İhlas Holding. On 23 July 2006, News Corporation acquired TGRT from İhlas Holding, and was formed by Ahmet Ertegün. The channel was later relaunched as Fox on 24 February 2007. David Parker Reid was the General Manager of Fox Turkey between 2006 and 2009. David Parker Reid, Hakan Etus, Koray Altinsoy, Doğan Şentürk played crucial role as the most senior executives about the establishment of the Fox channel in Turkey. After David Parker Reid's leave, Pietro Vicari served as General Manager from 2009 to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vahide Perçin
Vahide Perçin (born 13 June 1965) is a Turkish actress and acting trainer. She was credited for a number of years by her married name Vahide Gördüm, but after divorcing, she went back to her birth name. Early life Perçin was born on 13 June 1965 in Karşıyaka, İzmir, the daughter of Greek immigrants. Her father was a truck driver and her mother a housewife. She studied graphic in high school and then entered the Faculty of Economics but finally started acting. She later attended Dokuz Eylül University's Faculty of Fine Arts and passed all the nine exams of its Theatre School. She finished her studies as the best student and received great support from her teacher Özdemir Nutku. After leaving the university she moved to Ankara. Later she received an offer from the State Theatre and then moved to Adana. Career In 2003, Perçin started her television career by portraying Suzan Kozan in the TV series '' Bir İstanbul Masalı''. The Gördüm family later moved to Istanbul an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aydan Şener
Memnune Aydan Şener (born 1 March 1963) is a Turkish actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Turkey 1981 and represented her country at Miss World 1981 but unplaced. She is of Tatar origin. Biography She was born in Kilis, a town in south-central Turkey, in 1963. Her aunt is actress Suzan Avcı. She moved to Bursa in her early childhood along with her family. She completed her secondary and high school education in Bursa. She was elected Miss Turkey in 1981 and represented Turkey at the Miss World beauty pageant in the same year. Having worked as a model for a short while, she started her acting career with the mini period series "''Küçük Ağa''" based from novel in 1983. With Tolga Savacı, She played in Fatih Harbiye, Samanyolu based from novels and "Gölge Çiçeği" for third times. She played in mini period series Çalıkuşu ''Çalıkuşu'', or ''The Wren'', is a novel by Reşat Nuri Güntekin written in 1922, about the destiny of a young Turk ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hatice Aslan
Hatice Aslan (born 20 February 1962) is a Turkish actress who starred in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 2008 film '' Üç Maymun (The Three Monkeys)'', for which Ceylan won the best director award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around .... Aslan was seen as a strong contender for the best actress award at the festival. She is best known for hit series "En Son Babalar Duyar" and "Ferhunde Hanımlar". Aslan shared the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival's Best Actress Award in 2011 together with Görkem Yeltan for her role in '' Vücut''. Filmography Television Film References 1962 births People from Sivas Turkish film actresses Living people Best Actress Golden Boll Award winners 20th-century Turkish actresse ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Demet Akbağ
Demet Akbağ (; born 23 December 1959) is a Turkish theatre, film actress and acting trainer. Biography Demet Akbağ was born on 23 December 1959 in Denizli as the third child of Benan and Oktay İybar. Her family was in Denizli at the time because of the duty of her grandfather as the head of justice department in the city. Her father was a journalist and photographer. She has two elder siblings, Sedef and Kemal. As her parents separated when she was 13, she and her mother and grandmother moved to Istanbul in 1972. She later enrolled in the Istanbul Girls High School, and as her parents got separated she started attending the Erenköy Girls High School and finished her education there. After finishing high school in 1982, she entered Istanbul Municipal Conservatory and completed her studies in four years. Her first marriage, when she was 21, lasted four years. Career She started her professional career first in theatre in the early 1980s and then in television from 1987 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zuhal Olcay
Zuhal Olcay (; born 10 August 1957) is a Turkish people, Turkish actress and singer. Biography Graduated from Ankara State Conservatory in 1976, she first started as a stage actress. She played in hit series :tr:Yeditepe İstanbul, Yeditepe İstanbul. Since 1983 she also started acting in films and became famous with films like "''Amansız Yol''", "''Kurşun Ata Ata Biter''", "''Bir Avuç Gökyüzü''", "''Halkalı Köle''", and "''Dünden Sonra Yarından Önce''". In 1989 with Evita (musical), Evita musical, she began her singing career. In 2018, she was sentenced to 10 months in prison for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. She had reportedly revised the lyrics to the song "Boş Vermişim Dünyayı" (I Let Go of the World), to say "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it's all empty, it's all a lie, life will end one day and you'll say 'I had a dream.'" A lawsuit was filed against her by the Istanbul Prosecutor's office for apparently insulting the president during ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oya Başar
Oya Başar (born 11 February 1956) is a Turkish people, Turkish actress. Early life and career At the age of 8, Başar joined the Istanbul City Theatres. After finishing her education in Istanbul, she took part in various plays. She then worked for Devekuşu Cabaret, Istanbul Theatre and Ali Poyrazoğlu Theatre. She then made her television debut, before meeting Levent Kırca and founding a theatre company with him. Her breakthrough came with the 1986 sketch series ''Olacak O Kadar'', which she produced, directed, and acted in together with her husband for years. She played in popular comedy series "Benim Annem Bir Melek" alongside :tr:Tarık Ünlüoğlu, Tarık Ünlüoğlu who her ex-bride's father. In 2007, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and took a break from acting but later recovered. She then joined Şehir Theatres and appeared in the ''Yedi Kocalı Hürmüz'' musical. Başar continues her career in cinema and television. Personal life Her maternal family is of Kur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Melek Baykal
Melek Baykal (born 7 August 1954) is a Turkish actress mostly appearing in theater and TV series. For 1069 episodes, She played her roles as Nermin in hit daily series ''Ferhunde Hanımlar''. The spin off series Cennet Mahallesi of hit gypsy comedy films ''Gırgıriye'' raised her popularity. Nurhayat. After playing in ''Ferhunde Hanımlar'' in Ankara, she got many proposals to play in TV series and movies. Because of it, she decided to move to Istanbul. Baykal started to her career when she was 17 years old in a theater by playing an 85-year-old woman. She graduated from Ankara State Conservatory The Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory (), the first conservatory to be founded in the Republic of Turkey, was established in 1936 by a directive of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The conservatory is part of Hacettepe University. History ... worked at Ankara State Theaters for a long time. She played in the TV series ''Hayat Bağları'' and "Melek Apartmanı". She played in s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Social Phenomenon
Social phenomena or social phenomenon (singular) are any behaviours, actions, or events that takes place because of social influence, including from contemporary as well as historical societal influences. They are often a result of multifaceted processes that add ever increasing dimensions as they operate through individual nodes of people. Because of this, social phenomenon are inherently dynamic and operate within a specific time and historical context. Social phenomena are observable, measurable data. Psychological notions may drive them, but those notions are not directly observable; only the phenomena that express them. See also * Phenomenological sociology * Sociological imagination * Viral phenomenon Further reading * * References External links * Social psychology Phenomena Phenomena A phenomenon ( phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable Event (philosophy), event. The term came into its modern Philosophy, philosophical usage thro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |