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Ebru Şallı Ebru Hanım as fashion model... Left click for image enlargement and legibility.	Model (and Spokesperson) ...as Weight Watcher Left click for image enlargement and legibility.	Şallı raised eyebrows when she declared publically that her husband came before her child... Continue reading, "Fashion Model"...» Despite being a genuine food hound, Ebru Hanım manages to keep her slender figure. One of her weight watching secrets involves her own foolproof 'recipe' for yogurt... Continue reading, "Homemade Yogurt Recipe"...»
Demet Şener Starkers! Left click for image enlargement and clarity.	[former] film star and model	Şener's 'talents' spilled-out onto the Turkish big screen in the much ballyhooed period comedy film, Kahpe Bizans (Double Crossing Byzantium) in 2001. (See Galaxy Magazine cover at left.) At the time, she was Beyazıt 'Beyaz' Öztürk's love interest, but when he announced their break-up on national TV, Demet hanım cast her eyes skyward -- in the direction of pro-basketballer Ibrahim Kutluay. Disappointed when his promising NBA career was stillborn (in 2004), the unmarried couple now (May 2005) share digs in Greece where he stars on one of the pro teams there.
İlhan Şeşen *"Hair's the thing..."* (1987-2005) Left click for image enlargement.	singer, songwriter, musician, actor	... is the 'maturing' Turkish Pop-singer nicknamed 'Uncle' by his fans. In 2004-2005, Şeşen took up acting, for a popular TV drama series, Aliye.
Türkan Şoray The 'Sultan' -- about to be sultry 60 in 2005 Left click for image enlargement and legibility. And in her sexy late-teens Left click for image enlargement.	Former beauty-queen -- then film and TV Actress Her married lover, Rüçhan -- and his family Out on the town -- Sultan and Rüçhan With her husband, Cihan and their daughter, Yağmur No kissing -- well, just this once...	Lead actress in 'Yalancı / �ok Yalnızım' Known as 'Sultan' by her loving and respectful fans (of all ages), Türkan Şoray is a Turkish icon. [Note: Türkan Sultan's nickname may have an historical origin. In Ottoman history during the final years of the so-called Reign of Women, it was Sultan Mehmed IV's mother Turhan Sultan [supported by the palace black eunuchs] who arranged to have Kösem Sultan strangled -- in a violent coup.] Türkan lived as a 'kept woman' for many years with her married lover, movie-mogul Rüçhan Adlı (see left) before marrying and later divorcing movie-actor Cihan Ünal (see left), with whom she had a (wayward) daughter, Yağmur (which means Rain in English). Türkan's on-screen "no kissing" rule... In her early film career Türkan only had one on-screen kiss (see left) -- with Ayhan Işık. After that she refrained from on-screen kissing in deference to a high 'decency standard' with which she wished to be identified. Or at least that's what she said. In fact, the real reason for the 'no kissing rule' was because her lover at the time, Rüçhan Adlı (who died in 1995), was insanely jealous. And, although they broke up later, she could hardly then change her 'decency' story. So even after they parted, she remained unkissed on-screen for a long while. But, in recent years, she has modernized her 'standards' -- and, in her current TV roles, for example, she frequently 'puckers up'.