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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
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Mustafa Sarıgül
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CHP Party Politician;
rival of Deniz Baykal
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In the News: 24 July 2007 -- Mustafa Sarıgül, who can still wow local contituents in 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. |
| [Ahmet] Necdet Sezer
One man opposition party | 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.
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Sezer battles AKP CronyismSezer vetoes AKP bills Sezer's Koran School action #1
Sezer's Koran School action #2
His 'Imam Hatip Bill' vetoin 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. |
| Ömer Seyfettin
Turkey's Mark Twain? from
Anadolu'yu Aydınlatanlar130 |
Short-story and novella writer | 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).
Orçun Sonat 
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Actor in Conventional and Erotic Turkish films between 1970 - 2006. | One of two lead actors in 'Yalancı / Çok Yalnızım' (Liar / I'm so lonely). |
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