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Record-breaking screenwriter still going strong
One of the world's most prolific screenwriters, Safa Önal, who broke a Guinness World Record in 2004 for having almost 400 scripts filmed, talks about his new projects. It would not come as a shock if one of the world's most prolific screenwriters was found to be working for Hollywood or India's gargantuan Bollywood film industry.
Sarajevo Film Festival Expects 100,000 Visitors
Construction of the main stage has started in front of Sarajevo's National Theatre, which will be the main venue for the red-carpet introductions and presentations at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival which starts in less than three weeks in the Bosnian capital.
Documentary about Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence to premiere at Venice Film Festival
?Innocence of Memories,? a documentary film about Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk?s book ?Museum of Innocence? and its complementary museum in Istanbul, will have its world premiere at this year?s Venice International Film Festival.
Zaz back to Turkey for three concerts
Young French musician Zaz is back once more to dazzle music lovers with her extraordinary voice in Turkey's three largest cities, Istanbul, Ankara and ?zmir.
She will be performing at the Harbiye Cemil Topuzlu Open-Air Theater in Istanbul on July 28, the ?zmir Arena on July 29 and the ODTÜ Vi?nelik Concert Area in Ankara on July 30.
The Lesson: Greek co-production makes way to 2015 LUX Prize finals (trailers)
The three films competing for the 2015 LUX Prize were announced on in Rome by EP Vice-President Antonio Tajani and culture committee chair Silvia Costa, at the Venice Days press conference.
Exhibition in memory of Amy Winehouse opens in Turkey's Antalya
British singer Amy Winehouse has been remembered with a series of portraits on the fourth anniversary of her death at an exhibition in Turkey?s southern Antalya province.
Turkish journalist sacked over critical Erdo?an tweet on Suruç bombing
A prominent Turkish journalist has been sacked over a social media post on the grounds that he anonymously criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an over the July 20 Suruç bombing.
Remembering Agatha Christie at 'Black Week Turkey' events in Istanbul
One of the world?s oldest luxury hotels, the Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah in Istanbul, will host the ?Black Week Turkey? event on Oct. 22-24 in honor of Agatha Christie?s 125th birthday with the attendance of the famous author?s grandson and a number of leading crime fiction authors.
CHP report lists 65 cases of censorship in Turkey in first half of 2015
A Republican People's Party (CHP) report has revealed the plight of culture and arts in Turkey, noting 65 cases of pressure, bans and censorship in the first half of 2015 alone.
Three Spanish reporters missing in war-torn Aleppo in Syria
Three Spanish freelance journalists who traveled to Syria to report amid the country's long-running civil war have gone missing around the embattled northern city of Aleppo, a Spanish journalism association said July 21, the latest ensnared in the world's most dangerous assignment for reporters.
Music festival set for Eklisia Church in Gümü?lük
Turkey?s first open air chamber music festival, the Eklisia Chamber Music Festival, will be held in the Eklisia Church in the Aegean province of Mu?la?s Gümü?lük from Aug. 1 to Aug. 13, 2015.
Turkish Armenian named Istanbul State Opera and Ballet director
The Turkish Armenian conductor of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet Theater choir, Kevork Tavityan, has been named the new director general of the theater.
Tavityan was appointed to the position when the former director, ?amil Gökberk, retired after reaching the age limit.
Iraqi musicians play ancient oud to soften din of war
In a Baghdad workshop plastered with black-and-white photos from a more peaceful time, Mahmoud Abdulnabi hand-carves a wooden oud, a string instrument with ancient roots that has fallen silent in much of the war-torn country.
'Little Black Fish' documentary lends a voice to children of war
The labeling of the collective attempts in the last half-a-decade on many fronts to bring Kurds more freedoms and rights, to bring an end to the war in the southeastern Turkey that has left its mark in the area for the last three decades and to help ending some deeply-rooted separatist notions has been called the Kurdish Initiative (or the Kurdish Opening), and later the Peace Process.
Number of movie theaters rising in Turkey
The number of movie houses in Turkey has increased by 18.3 percent over the last five years, according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜ?K).
In addition, the total number of seats in movie theaters increased by 10.8 percent and audience capacity reached 276 318.