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Identify this Famous Turk... Click! Thanks to Blog Taşdelen Arzu Okay began a promising movie career in films like these... Zapata written and directed by Melih Gülgen in 1971. A conventional movie starring Cihangir Gaffari and Arzu Okay in a Turkish spaghetti-western, set in 'Mexico' -- involving highwaymen Jak and Alvarez... and the Mexican bandit-hero Zapata. Click! Thanks to www.spaghetti-western.net But she gained everlasting fame in movies like these... Olgun Ve Dolgun (Ripe And Plump) starring Arzu Okay and Tamer Yiğit, directed by Remzi Jöntürk. This poster is undoubtedly for a knockoff version of the original Tepedeki Ev movie (the only Okay/Yiğit film on record), in which Arzu Okay's red headband and the fishnet (in her right hand, here) are the giveaways. Click! Tepedeki Ev (The House On The Hill) directed by Remzi Jöntürk in 1976. An 'erotik' drama film starring Tamer Yiğit and Arzu Okay which has been called Okay's most 'revealing performance ever'. Click! Arzu Okay is laid back for Tamer Yiğit in Tepedeki Ev (The House On The Hill) directed by Remzi Jöntürk in 1976. Click! Thanks to D-Smart TV Free updates for life! Jim and Peri's Commercial-free CD/Broadband Editions for Turkish Learning -- with triple ebook bonus! Essential Suffixes Printed Book

Romance, Love, and Sex Matters in Turkey The Erotik Turkish Cinema Arzu Okay 4/6 Turkish Movie Poster Curiosity Arzu Okay, Ahmet Mekin, and Muhterem Nur never appeared together in an erotik film entitled 'Ay Bu Gece Doğacak'. Only one Turkish film by that name even exists -- and it was made in 1971, during the conventional Turkish movie-making era. It was directed by Savaş Eşici and starred Fikret Hakan, Melek Görgün, Erden Güvenç and Ceyda Karahan. So what's the origin of this seksi poster? Click! Thanks to: www.otekisinema.com Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do... Also: The Arzu Okay Center Film-clip: Arzu Okay driven to tears by movie critcs Mature Foreign Women, beware the Turkish lothario! 'Bad Girls' of the 1970s Turkish Cinema -- Mine Soley Yeşim Yükselen -- The Wicked Witch of West Istanbul Nur Ay -- 'Dirty Dancing' Diva, Part 2 Emel Canser -- Liberated and Licentious Lady Sibel Kekilli -- Minor porn star or cinematic Joan of Arc? Famous Femmes of Modern Turkish History Best and Worst Turkish Movies - with a religious theme Sultry Aynur Aydan - The Woman Who Brought Down The Minister Seda Sayan, of the appealingly 'sensitive' overbite Erotik Yasemin Ünlü, Motherless Child Spunky Karaca Kaan -- What made her so damn mad?! Karaca Kaan, True Confessions Karaca Kaan Center Fatma Girik, Seksi Tomboy filmstar-center Müjde Ar's steamy film-career... achievement and controversy What really happened in bed between Müjde Ar and Nur Sürer in Widow Woman? Intro Müjde Ar Center Deep-inside Dilber Ay White-Hot Real Blonde... the Ceyda Karahan Center The Figen Han Center The Feri Cansel Story -- an erotik 'Beauty and the Beast' Zerrin Egeliler - (most of) everything you always wanted to know The Seyyal Taner Center The Seher Şeniz Center Turkish Movies Catalog Index Birth of Turkish Movies The Rise of Turkey's 'Erotik' Films Industry Brief History of 'Erotik' Transsexual Turkish Actresses Movie Superhero Tarkan, historic and erotik Mature Dutch Bride in Turkey Mature British Bride in Turkey Mature Swedish Bride in Turkey The 10 Basic Varieties of Unfaithful Turkish Lovers Name that dog! Divorce Turkish-style American Girls The Swinging Beachcomber's Guide to Summer Romance in Turkey The Circumcision Monologues Alev Altın - Turkish Traci Lords 1/2 'Erotik' Movies Database -- Zerrin Egeliler in Yedi Kocalı 'Erotik' Movies -- The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 1/4 Caught straddling the fence...Nalan Çöl 'Erotik' movie clips of young Banu Alkan & Songül Gündüz in Arzu 'Erotik' movie clips of young Hülya Avşar as the Sekreter The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index Turkish Belly Dancing Stars Turkish Male/Female Personal Names The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time Seda Sayan Sings Up A Storm -- and pleases the eye Next: Part 5 -- Arzu Okay, In Her Own Words, continued... Coming soon... Back: Part 3 -- Arzu Okay Takes Off...everything 'Erotik' Movies History -- The Players: Arzu Okay 4/6 Arzu Okay, in her own words... In Part Three, we opined about Arzu Okay's sky-rocket-like transition from conventional movie stardom (1970-1973) to erotik film stardom (thereafter) -- which made her a Turkish film legend... And here's an example of what we're talking about... It's a movie clip from Gelinin Ödu Patladı (The Bride Was Scared Out Of Her Wits)... written and directed by Sırrı Gültekin -- which starred Pekcan Koşar and Arzu Okay -- in which the bored and pampered Arzu hatches a 'cunning plan' (in the presense of her masseuse and serving-maid) to enliven her daily routine. It's a 2.5MB Windows Media Video (.WMV) file. But what does Arzu Okay have to say on the subject? Quite a lot actually... in very open and frank interviews she granted to Pazar Men's Magazine, Radikal Newspaper, and Milliyet Newspaper -- in 1976, 1999, and 2008 respectively. Shall we 'listen in' to what Arzu had to say -- in a few of her most revealing conversations? Hmmm...? From the Arzu Okay interview, Pazar Erkek Dergisi (1976) "Some people claim I'm responsible for wrecking the rules of (Turkish) morality -- because of the movies I've made. I flatly reject that idea. Two or three years ago I was appearing in 'innocent girl' movie roles. Now the public's taste has changed and I'm making erotic movies. I'm an actress -- and tomorrow I may return to köylü kızı roles. It's an issue of supply and demand. I provide what the public desires -- and I don't believe anyone is harmed by it. We are a society that is sadly lacking in sexual education. We've been kept in the dark for too long. In short, I'm an actress and a sex educator -- with no regrets." From the Arzu Okay interview, Milliyet Gazetesi (1999) Arzu Okay in her 'salad days' with a friend... Click! "I really loved making movies... but in 1977, producers began asking me to appear in more explicit films -- and I started to feel uncomfortable and exploited. In fact, I felt like I was wounding something I loved a lot (the cinema) and that it was wounding me. I hit a wall. Do you remember the film Atları Da Vururlar (They Shoot Horses, Don't They - 1969) with Jane Fonda and Michael Sarrazin? In that film, Fonda begs Sarrazin to put her out of her psychological misery with a bullet to the head...and he obliges her. When I no longer had the strength to absorb further wounds from the cinema, I fired such a bullet -- and I left film-making behind." Arzu Okay's musical backup troupe Beyaz Kelebekler Click! Arzu Okay tried a music career briefly, but it didn't work out -- even with the help of İbrahim Tatlıses and the Beyaz Kelebekler backing-her-up. "After I left the movie business I tried to make it as concert singer on tour. On my final tour, I teamed up with İbahim Tatlıses and Beyaz Kelebekler. It started out well enough, but after 10 days my nerves were so shot that I didn't know which way was up. You'll remember that anarchists were wreaking havoc in Turkey in the late 1970s. Bombs were going off everywhere...It was a real mess. One night at a concert in Ceyhan (Adana province), I started out to sing the 6 songs I'd memorized for my performance. During my second song I suddenly lost my concentration, and I began to sing a song I'd never sung before. My accompanists tried to get me back on track, but it was a lost cause. Finally, I laid the microphone down on the stage and retired to my dressing room. I left the tour flat, that night -- after apologizing to the other performers..." But she picked herself back up after that musical flub and, in a major reversal of occupations, she began working again... as an anutçu in the Kapalıçarşı (Covered Bazaar) in Istanbul -- guiding tourists (for shop-owner commissions) selling leather goods. Incredibly, that led to... Next: Part 5 -- Arzu Okay, In Her Own Words, continued... Coming soon... Back: Part 3 -- Arzu Okay Takes Off...everything Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do... Also: The Arzu Okay Center Film-clip: Arzu Okay driven to tears by movie critcs Turkish Movies Catalog Index Movie Superhero Tarkan, historic and erotik Mature Foreign Women, beware the Turkish lothario! 'Bad Girls' of the 1970s Turkish Cinema -- Mine Soley Yeşim Yükselen -- The Wicked Witch of West Istanbul Nur Ay -- 'Dirty Dancing' Diva, Part 2 Emel Canser -- Liberated and Licentious Lady Sibel Kekilli -- Minor porn star or cinematic Joan of Arc? Mature Dutch Bride in Turkey Mature British Bride in Turkey Mature Swedish Bride in Turkey 'Erotik' Movies -- The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 1/4 'Erotik' movie clips of young Banu Alkan & Songül Gündüz in Arzu 'Erotik' movie clips of young Hülya Avşar as the Sekreter Still The Best Little Game Show In Turkey The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index Turkish Belly Dancing Stars The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time Famous Femmes of Modern Turkish History Best and Worst Turkish Movies - with a religious theme Sultry Aynur Aydan - The Woman Who Brought Down The Minister #5 Selvi Boylum Al Kazmalım (The Girl in the Red Scarf) Related: The First All-Turkish 'Gloves-Off Erotik' Movie -- 'Öyle Bir Kadın Ki' (1979) Plus: Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The Leading Female/Male Movie Actors Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The 'Supporting' Cast and the 'Ed Wood-style' Director Turkish Kinsey Report Hülya Avşar (and friends) give frikik Post your comment...» We are extremely grateful for the Turkish-language movies source material on which some of this page is based -- to the following: Cihan Demirci, Metin Demirhan, İlke Gürsoy, Giovanni Scognamillo, www.hafif.org, www.otekisinema.com, www.gittigidiyor.com, www.sihirlitur.com, Sinematik -- Alternatif Sinema Kültürü Blogu (http://sinematik.blogspot.com), and sinemasever (http://www.hafif.org/uye/sinemasever).

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