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Romance, Love, and Sex Matters in Turkey |
Yağmur Atacan 'tells more' about 'some' The last time we looked in on Yağmur Atacan (about this time last year) he was enlightening a legion of young fans on the subjects of women, 'girls', and relationships -- in an interview he gave for Chica Magazine. You remember Yağmur Bey, we think...He's the baby-faced 24-year-old actor (and would-be rock musician) who continues to be 33-year-old Pınar Altuğ's main-sqeeze after nearly 2 whole years. You may also recall that Pınar Hottie, er, Pınar Hanım has a well-deserved reputation as a man-eater. So the fact that Yağmur is still around (after all this time) must mean that he can still ring Pınar's bell. Either that or she's unduly nervous about 'age creep'. (For more background on this celebrity couple, see our 'Lovers in the Spotlight' page.) In the aforementioned Chica magazine interview, young Yağmur had raised eyebrows with puzzling, contradictory remarks. On the one hand he'd said..."Being with an older woman is beautiful. A woman in her 30's is a perfect 10" -- which seemed to place Pınar on a pedestal. But in the same interview, he'd also said... "Now and then it's necessary to make a [relationship] change" -- as if he were putting her on notice. Well, things haven't changed much where YA's outspoken ways are concerned, since then. He's at his eyebrow-raising best in his latest interview -- granted to Hurriyet Gazetesi's entertainment-reporter Sema Denker... Interview Headline: "If you like your old car, you don't look at the new models."
Yağmur Atacan gave an interesting reply when I asked him, "Since you're still young, don't you think your likes and dislikes will change in time?"
He answered, "Of course, that's possible. People's ideas change with time. But I don't want problems to arise with Pınar because of the effect on me of another woman. If I become unhappy, then I'll look around. That's human nature. If you don't like your old car, you go around looking for/at other cars. But, if you like your old car... then, even if a new model comes out, you don't look at it. I'm happy with Pınar, I love her. Nobody else has caught my eye."
And later, when reporter Denker queried him about the couple's marriage plans, Yağmur said, "Maybe next summer, I'm going with the flow of my feelings. If I make a mistake, I'll be the first to admit it -- and that'll be the end of that." Reporter Denker pursued the point, "Is getting married and then divorced such an easy thing for you to do?" To which Yağmur replied, "There's no useful purpose that's served by me feeling pain... not me nor anyone else." Hmmm.
Never mind a marriage... Does this guy even sound ready for commitment to a high-school social outing? We used to think that Pınar Hanım was the hard nut of this pair. But, we're beginning to wonder now. One thing seems certain, though... Yağmur Atacan and Pınar Altuğ are a match made in purgatory. |

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