ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Fatma Girik, a beloved Turkish screen actress of the 1960s and 1970s and one-time district mayor, has died. She was 79. Girik died Monday in a hospital in Istanbul of multiple ...
Comedies and melodramas are what Turkish auds want to see. And most of all, they want to see Turkish comedies and melodramas. The phenomenal growth of the local production sector over the last five ...
As a Turkish-American film critic, I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Turkish cinema. As a child of the ’80s, I grew up idolizing American blockbusters; the cheery and awe-inspiring ...