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Abbreviations:
LMA - Lead Male Actor/Player, LFA - Lead Female Actor/Player,
MA - Male Actor/Player, FA - Female Actor/Player,
MD - Main Director, P - Producer(s), C - Cinematographer, W - Screenplay Writer,
Dan - Dancer, M- Music by, AD - Art Director, PC - Production Company
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Seyyal Taner
 Pop Singer, Conventional and erotik Turkish movie star, born 28 October 1952 in Şanlıurfa.
Seyyal Taner planting erotik-film seeds opposite Tamer Yiğit in Vahşi Aşk (Wild Love) 1972
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Besides Turkish, Seyyal Taner is fluent in German, Spanish, and English languages.
Seyyal Taner, a graduate of the Amerikan Kız Koleji (The American College for Women and Girls) who received ballet training at İstanbul Devlet Konservatuar (The State Conservatory in Istanbul), was tutored during her formative years in the musical arts by Şerif Yüzbaşoğlu. Taner got her start in show-biz as a pop singer. And, she was a rising star in the musical world... initially as a vocalist with the Kanat Gür Orchestra in 1965, then as a member of the Los Bravos singing group -- before deciding to redirect her natural talent (and physical beauty) to movie making. And, after getting her cinematic feet wet in Spain, Taner made her conventional Turkish film debut, co-starred with Tamer Yiğit, in Kara Güneş (Black Sun) -- a dramatic action-adventure film directed by Kemal Kan in 1968. She made two more films in 1968, but when Los Bravos' lead guitarist proposed marriage, Taner dropped everything and flew to Germany to rejoin him -- and the group. The marriage was short-lived, however, and before her wedding ring had time to leave much of a mark, Taner returned to Turkey to resume her film career in 1972...just as the seks furyası (sex-movie boom) years were commencing.
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Seyyal Taner A publicity photo from the 1970s
 Click! | Eroticism crept into Turkish films with conviction in 1972 after the very successful release of the erotik action-adventure movie Parcala Behçet (Tear Me Up, Behçet) directed by Melih Gülgen, starring Behçet Nacar, Gülgün Erdem, Tijen Doray, and Danyal Topatan. Thereafter, erotik Turkish movies succeeded in pulling paying-male-audiences away from lacklustre TV fare at home, back into big city movie theaters... in droves. Seyyal Taner was among the first of the conventional movie actresses to catch the erotik movie wave -- and to benefit from it. Co-starred with Salih Güney and Feri Cansel, Seyyal Taner made the full transition to erotik-film making in the role of the evil vamp Sibel in Benimle Sevişir Misin? (Will You Make Love With Me?) directed by Nazmi Özer in 1972. The erotik-films 'warming-up' period (that began in 1972) came to full-fruition in 1974 with the release of such films as Beş Tavuk Bir Horoz (Five Chickens And A Rooster) in which Seyyal Taner got equal billing with established stars of the Turkish cinema like Sermet Serdengeçti, Mine Mutlu, Nebahat Çehre, and Fatma Belgen.
The Seyyal Taner pose [that she struck in Kalleşler (The Backstabbers) in 1972] served as the focal point for both the movie-poster at top-of-page and the book cover [for Erotik Türk Filmleri150 in 2000] seen just below.
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Seyyal Taner Conventional Movies:
Haydut Avcısı (Bounty Hunter) -- a Turkish spaghetti-western directed by Melih Gülgen in 1972, starring Seyyal Taner and Aytekin Akkaya (see poster, upper left).
Seyyal Taner Erotik Movies:
Benimle Sevişir Misin? (Will You Make Love With Me?) -- an erotik murder mystery directed by Nazmi Özer in 1972, starring Seyyal Taner, Salih Güney, and Feri Cansel. In this movie-clip (a 1.2 MB Windows Media Video [.WMV] file), the innocent Feri Cansel dials-up the deceitful Salih Güney on the telephone. And, as Salih exchanges 'sweet nothings' with Feri over the phone, he mischievously fondles his evil lover Seyyal Taner (who's starting to get just a leetle bit jealous) at the same time.
When Seyyal Taner realized that Turkish cinema was heading in the direction of explicit eroticism (a situation that she helped create), she suddenly got cold feet -- and, in 1975, she quit film-making altogether in favor of her singing-career. Meaningful fame as a singer eluded her for a while, until 1976 when she recorded her first #1 hit single, Son Verdim Kalbimin İşine (I Put An End To My Heart Function) -- a song-title that demonstrates the power of Devrik Cümle in Turkish... In 1980, Seyyal Taner's first album, Lider (Leader), was also a success, but after its release she faded into the backgound. When she reappeared in 1986 with the release of two popular singles (both song-titles with female names), Naciye and Leyla, she also managed a second-place finish in the Turkish national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest. (In the Turkish finals, Taner lost out to Klips ve Onlar, a 5 person band, whose rendition of Halley (in reference to the comet) gained the group a 9th place finish at the 1986 Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen, Norway -- a finish which, up to that time, was Turkey's best-ever showing.)
Seyyal Taner -- Movie Publicity Photo from the 1970's
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Tarkan Superhero Movie-Series
Superhero Tarkan (as portrayed by Kartal Tibet) and his faithful companion, the Alsatian Kurt
 Click! The Tarkan comic-strip hero became so popular and admired by Turkish readers in 1967 that a jump to the silver-screen was inevitable. The head-long rush to be first to make a Tarkan film, caused director Mehmet Arslan to wrongly bypass creator Sezgin Burak in the production process of the first 'unofficial' Tarkan film in 1968. To avoid Burak's rightful copyright claim, Arslan changed the hero's name from Tarkan to Targan -- which enabled the release of Bozkırlar Şahini Targan (Targan, The Falcon of the Plains) starring Tanju Korel as Targan. But, director Arslan and creator Burak subsequently reached a working-agreement, and Arslan went on to direct 4 of the 5 films which are considered to comprise the 'official' Tarkan movies-series -- which were all written by creator Sezgin Burak for Kartal Tibet starring as Tarkan, spanning the years 1969-1973. |
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Historic and Erotik-Heroic -- The Tarkan historical-superhero was originated by Sezgin Burak (1935-1978) who wrote and began drawing the Tarkan comic strip in 1967 for Hürriyet Gazetesi. Tarkan traveled light... with just his horse and faithful dog, Kurt (Wolf) -- and the ladies adored him wherever he went. From lowly (and lonely) inn-keeper's wives to (kinky) Queens of powerful kingdoms --
Superhero Tarkan beds Aneta (Aynur Aydan) the inn-keeper's wife 1969
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Erotik-Heroic Tarkan beds Queen Evdoksia (Birsen Ayda) 1969
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The Tarkan Movies fantastik stuff!
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Unofficial Tarkan Films (i.e. screenplay not written by Tarkan-creator Sezgin Burak)
Bozkırlar Şahini Targan (1968) -- starring Tanju Korel (as Targan/Tark-Han), Sezer Güvenirgil, and also Sevgi Can. Movie-title sometimes seen as: Bozkırlar Şahini Tark-Han The film was made without consent of Sezgin Burak (creator of the Tarkan comic-strip superhero), and in order to avoid a lawsuit, Director Mehmet Arslan slightly altered the film's title and its hero's name to Targan/Tark-Han.
Official Tarkan Films (i.e. screenplay by Tarkan-creator Sezgin Burak)
Tarkan (1969) -- starring Kartal Tibet, Zuhal Aktan, Sevgi Can, Lale Belkis, Birsen Ayda, and Aynur Aydan. This film should be sub-titled: Mars'ın Kılıcı (The Magic Sword of Mars)... because pursuit of the sword is the main subject of the film.
Tarkan Gümüş Eyer 1970
Tarkan Viking Kanı (Tarkan Viking Blood aka Tarkan and the Vikings) -- written and directed by Mehmet Aslan in 1971. The film starred Kartal Tibet -- with erotic interest provided by a Swedish ex-stripper, Eva Bender (as Ursala, the voluptuous Viking princess), a traditonal Turkish beauty Fatma Belgen (as Yonca, daughter of the Turkish chief), and an exotic Turkish beauty Seher Şeniz (as the evil Chinese spy, Lotus)
Tarkan Altın Madalyon 1972
Tarkan Güçlü Kahraman Kolsuz Kahraman'a Karşı (Tarkan The Powerful Hero vs. The Armless Hero) -- written and directed by Mehmet Aslan in 1973. The film starred Kartal Tibet along with bed-partners Hülya Darcan (as Alonya) and Semra Yıldız (as the Chinese Emporer's wife)
To: Tarkan, the modern-day Turkish popstar
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Kartal Tibet 
Kartal Tibet displays the hero's famous forelock in Tarkan (Mars'ın Kılıcı) (Tarkan and the Sword of Mars) 1969
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Actor in 123 films (1965-1988), director of 66 films (1980-2009), scriptwriter for 9 films (1980-1990).
Kartal Tibet as he appeared in Zambaklar Açarken (When The Lilies Open) 1973 opposite Filiz Akın
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We are extremely grateful to the following people for their Turkish-language source material on which much in the cinema sections of the 'Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog' is based: Cihan Demirci, Metin Demirhan, Giovanni Scognamillo, Ağah Özgüç, and Yener Çakmak. We also extend special thanks to the content providers and webmasters at the following Turkish websites: Sinematurk.com, Telifhaklari.gov.tr, Turksinemasi.net, FotoAjans.com, Superresim.com, and Kimkimdir.gen.tr
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