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Bypass Turkish Government Censorship Ask about our free Speed Trial account -- for in-country Türkiye Click the image to learn how to protect your Internet freedom for less than $8 a month! Gossipy Modern Age Turkish Who's Who S In Turkey - Türkiye'de Tüm blu-ray fırsatları için tıklayın ! All the Turks we've grown to love (or hate!) from all walks of life... If you don't find the Turkish people you need here... click to let us know and we'll add them. Site visitors may navigate the Turkish Who's Who Index by clicking here. The Famous Person The person's occupation, vocation, activity, calling, career, job, metier, rank, preoccupancy, craft, profession, sport, trade, profession, work, organization, etc. Famous/infamous events in the life of S     Ercan Saatçı Born Istanbul, 1968 Ercan Saatçı before 'his boat came in'... in 1989 and after he'd made it big in 2005 Turkish Time Tunnel 1989-2005 Click! Thanks to Gözcü Gazetesi 2005 The Music Man... Turkish Singer, Lyricist, Music Arranger, Music Producer, Music Company Executive at Derman Müzik Grubu (DMG), former 'TV Pop Star' Jury Member - and sometime sports-writer Saatçı is married to the daughter of Ertuğrul Öztürk, the obnoxiously self-promoting OpEd writer for Hürriyet Gazetesi. The duo Izel & Ercan 1992 Album Cover for İşte Yeniden (Here we are again!) Click! Thanks to www.gercekpop.com 4 Dec 1992 Ercan Saatçı performs Eller Havaya (Hands in the Air), with İzel in the 90s... Click! Thanks to TRT Int Television While a member of the trio İzel º Çelik º Ercan in the 1990's, Saatçı was involved in a torrid love affair with the lead female singer (İzel Çeliköz). The affair continued during the time they performed as a duo, İzel & Ercan - until the couple split, after she caught him cheating on her in 1993. The trio İzel º Çelik º Ercan 1991 Album Cover for Özledim (I've Missed You) Ercan Saatçı at front-center in both photos. Click! Thanks to www.gercekpop.com 1991 Ercan Saatçı performs Allahim Bitmesin Bu Ruya (God, Don't Let this Dream Stop) -- with İzel (off-camera) in the early 90s. Click! Thanks to TRT Int Television Mustafa Sarıgül He could write a book... Left click for image enlargement and legibility. CHP Party Politician; rival of Deniz Baykal Interview with a Politician 'I want to be Prime Minister.' Left click for image enlargement and legibility. In the News: 24 July 2007 -- Mustafa Sarıgül, who can still wow local contituents in Click for enlargement! Şişli (but who remains a CHP national party pariah after his unsuccessful strong-arm attempt to unseat Deniz Baykal in 2005) whines about what might have been to a starry-eyed local constituent. "If I'd have been running," he whinged, "I'd have won 30% of the votes." Sounds to us like the pipe-dreams of just another politician who's "a day late and a dollar short." (Once) Political Rising-Star? Sarıgül is the populist Provincial Mayor of Şişli -- who now seeks a national constituancy. When Mustafa Bey tried to unseat Party Chairman Deniz Baykal at the CHP Party Conference in January 2005, Baykal became so furious that he had Sarıgül expelled from the party. Sarıgül took Baykal to court on the matter and won official reinstatment to the party in June 2005. But it may have been a Pyrric victory because Sarıgül looked pretty inept in the process. Seren Serengil Born Istanbul, 6 April 1971 Seren Serengil As a virginal 17 year-old wannabe in 1988 and a Botox plump-lipped pro of 34 in 2005 Turkish Time Tunnel 1988-2005 Click! Thanks to Gözcü Gazetesi April 2005 Controversial Thrice-Married Caberet/Stage Singer and TV/Film Actress Chip Off The Ol' Block? Seren at age 4 with famous film-star father Öztürk Serengil with whom she performed (as Mine) in the popular 1977 Turkish movie Sarhoş (Drunk). Click! Thanks to GittiGidiyor 12 Jan 2012 Sarhoş (Drunk) 1977 Movie Poster Click! Seren Serengil as she appeared in Sarhoş (Drunk) 1977 Click! Thanks to Cine 5 2011 Sampling of comments from Seren Serengil's faintly-adoring fan base... She's nowhere near as successful as her father was. Her voice is inferior, her beauty artificial. And she doesn't compare favorably to artists like Hülya Avşar or Gülben Ergen... Seren Serengil is always different. I remember her in the TV series 'Başka Olur Ağaların Dügünü'...in which she played the role of Menekşe. She was quite good. I don't find her that bad as an actress or singer. Overall, I give her 3 of 5 as an artist. And, I give her credit for her independence -- not trying to capitalize on her father's fame. Seren Serengil Gives Great Groveling Growl! Click! Thanks to GittiGidiyor 14 Jan 2012 Serengil's provocatively entitled memoir, Nefret (Hate), Childhood Memories Click! highlights childhood recollections of her life as the daughter of a celebrity father, Öztürk Serengil. Failed Marriages and Ill-Fated Motherhood Attempts Serengil has been married to (and divorced from): Ozan Kaçmaz (a partner in a Köfte (meat patty) Fast-Food enterprise), singer Cengiz İmren, and Musa Aytun (a sales and marketing construction-firm executive) She lost two near-term infants and suffered at least one miscarriage (while married to Musa Aytun) between 2006 and 2010 Ill-Fated Serengil with then-husband Musa Aytun Click! Originally published in Kelebek Supplement Hürriyet Gazetesi 14 September 2006 Ömer Seyfettin Turkey's Mark Twain? from Anadolu'yu Aydınlatanlar130 Short-story and novella writer 15th Annual Award Presentation Left click for image enlargement and legibility. In the News: 19 March 2004... We have a winner! The winner of the 15th Annual Ömer Seyfettin Turkish Literary Award was announced in Balıkeşir (Gönen province) yesterday. This year the award goes to Prof. Dr. Şansın Tüzün -- for her story Cumhuriyet Çiceği (Republic Flower). As reported in Gözcü Gazetesi (See photo-article at left.) Turkey's Mark Twain? Ömer Seyfettin (also seen as Omer Seyfeddin, in English) ranks as one of modern Turkey's greatest writers of fiction. He was born in 1884 in the city of Balıkeşir (in the then-Ottoman Empire) -- and he died young on 6 March 1920 in Constantinople [now Istanbul], just before seeing the birth of Atatürk's new Turkish Republic. [In contrast, Mark Twain was born in 1835 and died in 1910. Which makes us wonder...to what extent, if any, did Twain's works influence Seyfettin?] Seyfettin completed high school in Edirne and graduated military school at Harbokulunu as an army officer, eventually taking part in the Balkan Wars. After leaving the army, he went to Selanik for a short while, where he taught and wrote (for the magazine 'Young Pens', which he established). When he returned to Istanbul in late 1913, he became a full-time writer. Like Twain, "Seyfettin wrote in a unique style and drew his stories from his personal experience, from history, and from popular traditions. His use of colloquial language gave his stories a vivid and charming quality. He was a popular and widely read author who was independent of the literary movements of his day. Seyfettin's works cover a wide range of themes and include satires, polemical dramas, comical situations, and social commentaries. His Bahar ve Kelebekler (1927; Spring and the Butterflies) examines the generation gap between an old-fashioned grandmother and her more modern granddaughter, who imitates Western ways and knows nothing of her own culture. Bomba (1935; The Bomb) is the story of the cruel and grisly murder of a young Bulgarian socialist when he refuses to cooperate with a group of his revolutionary compatriots -- and is considered Seyfettin's masterpiece."119 Other favorites include: Pembe İncili Kaftan (The Thin Pink Kaftan), Falaka (The Bastinado Trap), Kaşağı (The Grooming Comb), Yalnız Efe (Lonely Efe), And (The Oath), and Diyet (Blood Money). [Ahmet] Necdet Sezer One man opposition party Was Hatemi even listening? Left click for image enlargement. Originally a Supreme Court Judge -- who became President of the Turkish Republic in 2000 A strong proponent of secularism in Turkey, Sezer is often the only thing standing in the way of the ruling religious-right majority party (the AKP). Sezer has been called a 'one man oppostion party', because Deniz Baykal's CHP doesn't seem up to the task. Click to see Sezer battles AKP Cronyism Sezer vetoes AKP bills Sezer's Koran School action #1 Sezer's Koran School action #2 His 'Imam Hatip Bill' veto in the Newspaper Reader's Encyclopedic Dictionary. Sezer is seen bottom left speaking (in the foreground) at the D-8 (Developing-8) Country Conference in February 2004. Unfortunately, his call for 'democracy and peace instead of conflict' seemed to fall on deaf ears with Iranian President Muhammed Hatemi (shuffling papers in the background) -- who refused to go along (probably on strict orders from the hardline mullahs in Tehran) with the rest of the D-8 member nations (which include Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Pakistan) in agreeing to label the PKK a terrorist organization. Orçun Sonat He's the Rich Guy Orçun Sonat in 'Yalancı/Çok Yalnızım' (1973) Click for Movie Catalog! Thanks to TürkMAX Channel and DigiTurk for the movie-photos above. Actor in Conventional and Erotic Turkish films between 1970 - 2006. One of two lead actors in 'Yalancı / Çok Yalnızım' (Liar / I'm so lonely). In Turkey - Türkiye'de Tüm akademik kitap fırsatları için tıklayın ! Related links... Pınar Altuğ -- Female Casanova Yağmur Atacan -- Poster Boy for Older Woman Pınar Altuğ and Yağmur Atacan -- Lovers in the Spotlight Bashing Hülya Avşar Erotic Turkish Movie History: Alev Altın, the Turkish Traci Lords Erotic Turkish Movie History: Mine Mutlu, only the good die young... Mehmet Ali Erbil's Stunning TV Blooper Zeki Müren -- Sultan of Sanat Celebrity Superstitions Bülent Ersoy's slip (and more) is showing Homophobia Awards for Mehmet Ali Erbil, Hülya Avşar, plus Emre, Hadise, and Tarkan steal the Beauty Pageant show... 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