Cinema of Turkey

Cüneyt Arkın is seen on the poster of his cult movie, The Man Who Saved the Earth, which is also known as the Turkish Star Wars.

Turkey's Cannes-winning director Nuri Bilge Ceylan will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival, the organizers of the event have said.

The comedy giant of Turkish cinema, Kemal Sunal is being commemorated in the country on the 18th anniversary of his death. 

Istanbul museums aim to attract more than 10 million local and international visitors this year, Coşkun Yılmaz, the Istanbul head of the Culture and Tourism Ministry, has said.

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest film "Ahlat Ağacı" (The Wild Pear Tree) is among the titles added to the festival's list of films.

The highly-anticipated films of the new season will be at the 37th Istanbul Film Festival from April 6 to 17 this year

With a new work initiated by the Culture and Tourism Ministry, the unforgettable films of Turkish cinema such as “Hababab Sınıfı” (Chaos Class) and “Malkoçoğlu,” as well as music from artists such as Zeki Müren, Müzeyyen Senar and Barış Manço, will be transferred to digital archives to ensure their protection.

Legendary Turkish actor Münir Özkul, who died on Jan. 5 at the age of 93, was laid to rest in Istanbul on Jan. 7.

French actor Gerard Depardieu, who had been in the southern Turkish province of Antalya to attend the closing ceremony of the 54th Antalya Film Festival, canceled his program on the day of the ceremony and decided to visit Istanbul instead.

A new art center in the Turkish capital has been named after intellectual and artist Zülfü Livaneli, with the opening of the center in the Çankaya district of the city attended by Ankara Çankaya Mayor Alper Taşdelen and Livaneli himself.