Zeki

Jim Jarmusch, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Turkish filmmaker Zeki Demirkubuz and local soccer club PAOK are just some of the stars of this year's Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

The 15th Boston Turkish Film Festival will kick off on March 17 with Tolga Karaçelik's "Sarma??k" (Ivy). The event will screen 21 Turkish films until April 23. 

Most of the films in the program are award-winners of international film festivals, and many of them will have their North America or U.S. premieres at the festival. 

The Istanbul Modern Cinema is continuing its Rendezvous with Directors series of meetings with prominent and critically acclaimed Turkish directors, welcoming Zeki Demirkubuz as its third guest.

2015 brought a second Nobel prize to Turkey thanks to scientist Aziz Sancar but it was also a time of farewell for doyen of Turkish literature Ya?ar Kemal as well as for masters of television and cinema, Zeki Alasya, Levent K?rca and Memduh ÜnTurk wins Nobel prize in chemistry 

Writer and director Zeki Demirkubuz will be the jury president at the Golden Tulip National Film Competition of the 34th Istanbul Film Festival to be held between April 4-19.

?zmir lost to Dubai by a wide margin in its bid to hosit the Expo 2020. However, having lost twice in its Expo ambitions, ?zmir is now preparing to open the biggest fair complex in Europe.

Because ?zmir has always been managed by the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP), it has never been on good terms with the government.

A new exhibition, organized in collaboration with Yapı Kredi Private Banking and the Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts Publication, is shedding light on the life of a Turkish classical music icon, the late singer Zeki Müren.

Turkey’s beloved transgender singer Bülent Ersoy may not be a global star, but she nevertheless has many followers all across the world and even one impersonator: A Singaporen artist living in Berlin and known for her alias Bülent Wongsoy.