''Reis'' ( Turkish: ) is a 2017 Turkish

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film about

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Jus ...

, the incumbent

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. It was released shortly before the

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which aimed for a transition to an executive presidency.

Synopsis

Reis describes Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's childhood and his 1994 to 1998 Istanbul mayoral tenure. The movie ends when he entered prison in 1998 as a consequence of reading a religiously intolerant poem in Siirt ("

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s are

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s, domes are helmets,

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s are our

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, believers are soldiers").

Cast

* Reha Beyoğlu as President

* Özlem Balcı as

Emine Erdoğan Emine Erdoğan (; born 16 February 1955) is the current first lady of Turkey as the wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Early and personal life Early life Emine Erdoğan was born as Cemal and Hayriye Gülbaran’s fifth child and only ...

* Orhan Aydin as Komiser Serhat * Ayhan Eroğlu as Hasan Yesildag * Abidin Yerebakan as Mustafa * İsmail Hakkı Ürün as Ismail * Volkan Basaran as Sultan Baskan

Controversy and reception

Hüdaverdi Yavuz, the director of the movie, refused to attend the movie's premiere, citing various troubles during the shooting, unpaid staff, and his forcefully reduced involvement in the post-production process as reasons.

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attributed the film a rating of 1.8 based on over 71,000 ratings. Reis attracted shy of 67,580 viewers in the first three days (March 3–5).

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* * 2017 films 2017 in Turkish politics Biographical films about politicians Films set in Turkey 2010s Turkish-language films Turkish political films Turkish drama films Turkish propaganda films Films set in Istanbul Films set in 1998 Films set in the 1990s {{2010s-Turkey-film-stub

Synopsis

Cast

Controversy and reception

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