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Summer of 1972 | Ahmet Yamak House

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Pictured Sundura Today.


Fortyone years ago during the Summer of 1972, after a late arrival to Sarp Otel Hopa[1] in the Eastern Black Sea province of Artvin, the  very next day I found myself in Sundura [2] Neighborhood (Mahalle) at an abandoned house that once belonged to Ahmet Yamak. 

I photographed, measured and did the drawings based on that field trip in September for Sedat Hakki Eldems Architectural Conservation and Restoration | 'Röleve ve Restorasyon' class. Here they are...

Ahmet Yamak House 

Drawings of Ahmet Yamak House

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[1] The area was part of the kingdom of Colchis but was always vulnerable to invasions, first the Scythians from across the Caucasus, then the Muslim armies led by Habib, son of Caliph Uthman who controlled the area from 853 AD to 1023 when it was conquered by theByzantines from the Sac Emirate allied to the Abbasids. The Seljuk Turks led by Alparslan conquered the area in 1064. With the collapse of the Seljuks, the Artvin area came under the control of the Ildeniz, one of the Anatolian Turkish beyliks

There is currently a high rate of cancer in Hopa, attributed to fall-out from the disaster at Chernobyl, across the Black Sea from here. Between 2001 and 2004, cancer cases sharply increased in the Black Sea region, especially in Hopa, with 47.9% of all deaths during this time being due to cancer. 

[2]Sundura takes the name from the small Sundura (dere) creek[*].

[*] Dere TR could be any of these : brook, stream, rivulet, run, runlet, watercourse, beck, bourn, bourne, branch, creek, dale, gully, kloof, runnel, vale.

Hold It Right There

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Entire world - Prison Population Rates 

per 100,000 of the national population

Source

1United States of America716
8Russian Federation479
39Iran284
46Brazil274
64Israel223
65Morocco220
66Poland219
67Mexico209
83Turkey173
101Spain149
101United Kingdom: England & Wales149
135Canada114
137Greece111
137Philippines111
139Iraq110
141Belgium108
141Croatia108
141Italy108
144Cambodia106
144Cyprus (Republic of)106
146France102


Theodor Herzl | The Missionary Playwright 1895-99

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Herzl on a cruising boat in Constantinople - 1898.

January 20, 1902: Herzl writes to Israel Zangwil and Joseph Cowen and describes the financial plans regarding Turkey. January 25: Herzl proposes to Franz Oppenheimer the creation of a model cooperative colony in El Arish. February 5: Herzl is called to Constantinople. He arrives on the 14th, in the company of Joseph Cowen. The first real negotiations are conducted with Turkey. February 16: In a letter to the Sultan, Herzl summarizes his negotiations. The Sultan's decision is unfavorable. 

Read Chapters 23-25 as they relate to Ottoman Empire and Istanbul visits.

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Theodor Herzl
Author: Desmond Stewart[1]
A biography of Theodor Herzl.
Doubleday & Company, New York,1974. 1st edition
395 pages, hardcover 

Part one: The President of Wir 1860-78. 
Part two: The Young Knight 1878-84. 
Part three: Longing for Success 1884-94. 
Part four: The Parnell of the Jews 1895. 
Part five: The Missionary Playwright 1895-99. Read Chapters 23-25
Part six: The desperate Intriguer 1899-1904.


Biography, that traces Herzl's tortuous route in Vienna, Paris and the major capitals of turn-of-the-century Europe. We see Herzl evolve from a dueling student, an aspiring playwright and a sophisticated journalist to the man who decides. in the summer of 1895, to set himself at the head of a movement for the Jews. Although indifferent to religion for most of his life, his European experience made him bitterly aware of bow Jews were suffering from Antisemitism. A blend of concern for what he now saw as his people and exalted ambition inspired him to devote himself to the Zionist movement-which, forty-four years after his death, led to the proclamation, under his portrait, of a Jewish state in Palestine. Through Herzl's own journals and letters, Desmond Stewart' reveals for the first time intimate details of his private life which played decisive roles in his career: constant ill health; lack of the artistic success he sought; his wretched marriage to a wealthy woman whose values he despised. The events of Herzl's life have been chronicled before. But for the first time Mr. Stewart tells the intensely personal story of this political figure and reveals him in the round as a believable and suffering human being.


[1] 1924-1981. Desmond Stewart was a British journalist who worked for many years in Cairo for a London newspaper.. He wrote a number of books about Egyptian culture and history. His main novels are 'The Leopard in the Grass' (1953), 'The Unsuitable Englishman' (1955), trilogy 'The Sequence of Roles', 'The Round Mosaic'(1965), 'The Pyramid Inch' (1966), 'The Mamelukes' (1968).

Herzl | Road to Holly Land

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Herzl with soldiers of the Turkish Guard in Crete - 1898.


Herzl and Zionist Delegation on a ship on their way to Jaffa - 1898.




Herzl and the Zionist Delegation at the market in Smyrna, Turkey 1898.



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Top25 Foursquare Check Ins in Istanbul

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Location | Category | Check-in | Visits

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İstiklal CaddesiOGO497.278162.722
CevahirMall495.207158.700
İstinyeParkMall457.116142.563
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NişantaşıNeighborhood402.72597.715
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MecidiyeköyNeighborhood374.21487.955
PalladiumMall359.09694.332
CapacityMall347.27792.117
KanyonMall336.80593.155
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TaksimOGO288.052118.615
OrtaköyOGO253.430110.333
Marmara ForumMall252.49382.912
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BakırköyOGO244.00562.502
Yeditepe ÜniversitesiUniversity243.96120.069
AtaşehirOGO208.09046.806
Rıhtım MeydanıPlaza200.93571.369

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Erdem's "Singing Women" in TIFF 2013

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Erdem's "Singing Women" in TIFF 2013



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Singing Women | SARKI SÖYLEYEN KADINLAR
France / Germany / Turkey 2013
Runtime:120 minutes

Festival - Special Presentation | High-profile premieres and the world’s leading filmmakers.


An island off the coast of Turkey is about to be evacuated due to a possible earthquake — but its inhabitants have been stricken with a mysterious illness, consigning them to an uncertain fate. Reha Erdem's genre-defying new film transports us to a wonderfully wry, oblique universe.

Director: Reha Erdem[1]


Exec. Producer:Claudine Avetyan
Producer:Omer Atay
Production Co.:ATLANTIK FILM, BREDOK FILM PRODUCTION, KMBO FILMS
Principal Cast:Binnur Kaya, Philip Arditti, Kevork Malikyan, Deniz Hasguler, Vedat Erincin, Aylin Aslim
Screenplay:Reha Erdem
Cinematographer:Florent Herry
Editor:Reha Erdem
Sound:Reha Erdem, Herve Guyader
Prod. Designer:Omer Atay

Produced by Atlantik Film
www.atlantikfilm.com  | E: claudine@atlantikfilm.com | T: +90 212 278 3611

[1] Born in Istanbul, Reha Erdem has graduated from Cinema Department of Paris 8 University.  He obtained his M.A. in Plastic Arts at the same university. He shot his first feature-length  film Oh Moon in 1989 as a French-Turkish co-production. He shot Run for Money in 1999, Mommy, I’m Scared in 2004, Times and Winds in 2006, My Only Sunshine in 2008 and Kosmos in 2009. All of his films except for Mommy I’m scared, for which he was one of the co-writers. 

He also has short films and directed a theater play, Maids (Les Bonnes) by Jean Genet. He is now working on two new projects.






Turkish Cinema 2012

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FULL LENGTH FEATURE FILMS CATALOGUE Turkish Cinema 2012 PDF

The Exceptional Postcard Collection of Adolf Feller

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THERE ARE (+300) RARE PIECES FROM THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE COLLECTION.

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The exceptional postcard collection of Adolf Feller. 

Adolf Feller (b. May 11 1879 in Bümpliz ; d. 4 October 1931 in Paris ) was a Swiss businessman active for decades as Philokartist . 

In 1889 Feller, began collecting postcards on various business trips as mementos of his travels. When news of his hobby reached his friends and relatives, others began sending picture postcards as well. After his death, Feller’s daughter, Elisabeth, continued to seek out postcards from around the world. The collection now includes 54,000 postcards from 140 countries, with especially impressive examples from 1893–1930, the height of the picture postcard’s popularity. A wonderful testament to one man’s obsession, 

SEE ALSO:  Monika Burri: The world in your pocket. The Adolf Feller Postcard Collection. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85881-339-8 .

PICTURED: THE LIGHTHOUSE AT HAYDARPASA (HAIDAR PASCHA)

Epigraphs of ancient Turkic people discovered in Mongolia

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Mavi Boncuk | Ancient Turkic inscriptions discovered in Mongolia, which should be read from right to left (Provided by Takashi Osawa)

Two massive slabs of stone inscribed in ancient Turkic script have been found on the steppes of eastern Mongolia, the first such discovery in over a century, a Japanese researcher said July 16.

The epigraphs date from the mid-eighth century, said Takashi Osawa, a professor of ancient Turkic history at Osaka University's graduate school.

He said the finds may offer invaluable clues to the political systems and institutions of the Gokturk people, who faced the Sui and Tang dynasties in China in times of peace and war as they reigned over the steppes of Central Asia.

Osawa said he and researchers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences discovered remnants of two giant epigraphs in May at an archaeological site called Dongoin shiree. It is near Mount Delgerkhaan, 400 kilometers southeast of Ulan Bator, the Mongolian capital.

The epigraphs measure 4 meters and 3 meters, respectively.

Combined, they are inscribed with 2,832 symbols, in 20 lines of ancient Turkic script.

Osawa, who deciphered the writing, said it describes the lamentation of people who have to leave their beloved families and homeland behind when they die.

"Oh, my home!" reads one inscription. Another reads: "Oh, my land!"

Signs engraved in the epigraphs indicate the artifacts likely represent epitaphs dedicated to members of the Ashina tribe, the reigning family of the Second Turkic Empire (682-744).

The Gokturks are the oldest nomadic people in Central Asia that left records of their own language in their own writing system.

The discovery is significant as it is the first of its kind since the three most renowned ancient Turkic inscriptions (Bilge Kaghan, Kol Tigin and Tonyukuk) were discovered in central Mongolia about 120 years ago, experts said.

"Other parts that remain buried in the ground may offer a record of the lives of the individuals commemorated," Osawa said.

"Research on ancient Turkic script has centered on the re-reading of known inscriptions after a Danish linguist deciphered the writing in the late 19th century," said Takao Moriyasu, a professor of Central Asian history at Kinki University. "The latest finds could help unravel new facts."

The history of the Gokturk state started when Yili Kaghan founded the First Turkic Empire in 552.

Political maneuvering by the Sui Dynasty of China split the Gokturk nation into an eastern and a western part, with the East Turkic Empire succumbing to Tang China's rule in 630. The Gokturks regained independence from Tang China to found the Second Turkic Empire in 682, only to be brought down by the Uighurs in 744.

By KUNIHIKO IMAI/ Senior Staff Writer

The Liebig Trade Cards | Turkish Subjects

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Liebig[1] produced many illustrated advertising products: table cards, menucards, children games, free trade card sets, calendars, posters, posterstamps, paper and other toys. These were often in the form of trading card sets with stories, historical tidbits, geographic tidbits, and so on. The sets usually consisted of six cards, one card included per product sale. Many famous artists were contacted to design those series of cards, which were first produced using true lithography, then litho chromo, chromolithography and finally offset printing. The cards remain popular with collectors and are often collected in albums.


“The most prolific of the issues of Liebig's Meat Extract Company are "Chromo" cards, which were issued until 1975. After the very scarce early issues, the cards were exchanged by the Company for coupons, and thus are found as complete sets. Each series has 6 or 12 cards. The size is generally around 4.1" x 2.8". 

The reverse of most cards wears advertising for the Liebig Company products or a recipe. The last lithographed series came out around 1939, but more interested cards have been edited until the seventies.” Source




[1] The Liebig's Extract of Meat Company (Lemco) was the originator of Liebig and Oxo meat extracts and later Oxo beef stock cubes. It was named after the German 19th-century organic chemist Baron Justus von Liebig (Darmstadt 12 May 1803 – Munich 18 April 1873), who founded it. 

His father carried on business as a drysalter and dealer in dye-stuffs, and made various experiments with a view to improved methods of preparing and purifying his wares. These led the son to take an interest in chemistry, and to seek for knowledge in the chemical books and periodicals in the grand-ducal library.

Working with Belgian engineer George Giebert, Liebig devised an efficient method of producing beef extract from carcasses. In 1865, they founded the Liebig Extract of Meat Company, marketing the extract as a cheap, nutritious alternative to real meat. Some years after Liebig's death, in 1899, the product was trademarked "Oxo". Liebig is also credited with the invention of Marmite because of his discovery that yeast could be concentrated.

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The Economist Article: Correction and Sorry!

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The Economist Articlel: Correction and Sorry!
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In last week’s Turkish story, we wrongly wrote that prosecutors, rather than judges, had handed down the verdicts in the Ergenekon trial. And claims of military plots to blow up mosques relate to the Sledgehammer case, not to Ergenekon. Sorry.

Place Names in East Before 1915

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Place Names in East Before 1915

Maps with Latin alphabet for place names in East and South East of Ottoman Domain. Very handy source from Mavi Boncuk Archives re scanned in detail.

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Word Origin | Tencere, tava

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While some people bang pots and pans to protest recent events in Turkey, it is time to dig into the word origins once more.

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Tencere

Meninski, Thesaurus [1680], facsimile print Simurg 2000. içinde yemek pişirilen bakır kap         = Fa tangīre/tankīre تنگيره/تنكيره a.a. Tencere, (Arapça:طنجرةIT Pentole[*]  GE Töpfe, EN pot (jug, vessel, crucible) GR κατσαρόλα [**) (katsaróla) plural katsaróles κατσαρόλες : Traditionally this is a brown, shallow earthenware cooking pot and the food cooked in it. A container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking,serving, and other purposes.

pot (n.1) "vessel," from late Old English pott and Old French pot "pot, container, mortar" (also in erotic senses), both from a general Low Germanic (cf. Old Frisian pott, Middle Dutch pot) and Romanic word from Vulgar Latin *pottus, of uncertain origin, said by Barnhart and OED to be unconnected to Late Latin potus "drinking cup." Celtic forms are said to be borrowed from English and French.



[*} Il diavolo fa le pentole, ma non i coperchi | Devil stirs the pot , yet does not put a the cover on (lid). Meaning, there is no perfect crime, truth is revealed in the end.

[**)Kaçarola TR endüstriyel mutfaklarda kullanılan bir gereç. from GR to TR. Tabanlı ve tabansız diye iki çeşidi olan, uzun saplı bir tencere. EN Industial name for long handled pan.

Tava

«bir soyılmış soğan ol tāvanın içinde bırakdı»

Tezkiret-ül Evliya [1341], ed. Yavuz, Tablet 2006.



tava(h), tawa(h), saj, or sac is a large, flat or convex disc-shaped griddle made from metal, usually sheet iron,cast iron, sheet steel or aluminium. It is used in South, Central, and West Asia for cooking a variety of flatbreadsand as a griddle for meat. It also sometimes refers to ceramic griddles. In South Asia, tavas are also used to fry foods called tava frytaka tak bhajitawa bhajitawa masala, etc.

Tava in Turkish, refers to any kind of frying panIn Bulgaria, flat ceramic сач or сачѐ (sach/sache) are used for table-top cooking of thin slices of vegetables and meat; тава (tava), on the other hand, are metal baking dishes with sides. 

Persian tābe/tāve تابه/تاوه kızartma sacı, tava << Old Persian tābak. The Persian language name tava(h)/tawa(h) is used in South Asia, including India and Pakistan; while the Turkic name saj (lit. sheet-metal and written saç or sac in Turkish and صاج in Arabic) is used in Southwest Asia, with overlap in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In West Asia, tava/saj are invariably convex, while in South Asia, both flat and convex versions are found.

Turkish Dish made in a tava: Balık(fish) tavası. Ciğer(liver) tavası.

(pictured) copper kuşhane with two handles.

Kuşhane: yayvan küçük tencere , kasserolle GE (saucepan, skillet). 

Adana Golden Boll | Altin Koza 2013

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Adana Golden Boll | Altin Koza 2013[1]
Competition Feature Films
The festival is scheduled for 16-22 September, 2013
and Beki Probst[2] will head the jury.

Mustafa Kemal Uzun "Çanakkale Yolun Sonu"
Atıl İnanç "Daire"
Alphan Eşeli  "Eve Dönüş Sarıkamış 1915"
Hakkı Kurtuluş; Melike Saraçoğlu "Gözümün Nuru"
Emre Yalgın "Hadi Baba Gene Yap"
Aslı Özge "Hayat Boyu"
Reha Erdem "Jin"
Deniz Akçay Katıksız "Köksüz"
Semir Aslanyürek "Lal"
Uğur Yücel "Soğuk"
Biket İlhan "Yarım Kalan Mucize"
Mustafa Fazıl Coşkun "Yozgat Blues" 

[1] The Golden Boll Film Festival began life in 1969 as a joint initiative of the Municipality of Adana and Adana Film Club. It was known originally as the ‘Golden Boll Film Gala’, a name aptly symbolizing one of the principal crops of the Çukurova region: cotton. With additional support from the Turkish Film Archives, the Festival has evolved over the years into one of the leading arts and cultural events not only of the Çukurova region, but the country as a whole, reflecting an increasingly diverse programme. 

Over the years, the Golden Boll Film Festival has flourished into an international platform hosting films from the Mediterranean region and countries all over the world, along with film professionals from all walks of the film industry. Every year, the Festival welcomes some 700 Turkish and European filmmakers, and draws admissions of around 70,000. 

[2] Beki Probst is head of the European Film Market since 1988.
Probst was born in Istanbul. She studied law and journalism before joining the daily newspaper “Tercuman” and the weekly newspaper “Hayat”. In 1960 Beki Probst moved to Switzerland where she organized several cultural projects. She then became manager of the Probst-Kinobetriebe. Her commitment to film and cinema soon led her to extend her activities to Europe and beyond.
From 1981 to 1988 Beki Probst was the Berlin International Film Festival's delegate for Turkey and Greece. In 1985 she organized a tradeshow for the Locarno International Film Festival. She also served on Locarno’s Selection Board until 1995.
In 1988 Beki Probst became director of the “Film Fair” of the Berlin International Film Festival. She renamed the section “Film Fair” into European Film Market. Under her management the European Film Market was established as one of the biggest and most important international film fairs.
In addition Beki Probst was artistic director of the Geneva Festival “Stars de Demain”. She has served on the juries of several international film festivals, among them Toronto, Jerusalem and San Sebastián.
In 1992 Beki Probst was decorated as “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Cultural Minister.

Interview with Beki Probst

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Mavi Boncuk | Interview with Beki Probst, Head of the European Film Market in Berlin.

EU Watch | 20%

Huns in Middle East

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Mavi Boncuk | In 395, a Hun raid across the Caucasus mountains devastated Armenia, there they captured Erzurum, besieged Edessa and Antioch, even reaching Tyre in Syria.

Montreal World Film Festival 2013 | THE LONG WAY HOME

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THE LONG WAY HOME
2013, Colour, Turkey, First Films World Competition 
PRODUCTION TEAM

Director : Alphan Eseli
Screenwriter : Serdar Tantekin, Alphan E?eli
Cinematographer : Hayk Kirakosyan
Editor : Ömer Özyilmazel
Cast : Ugur Polat, Nergis Öztürk, Serdar Orçin
Music : Mihaly Vig
Film production and Sales : Öguz Peri, Bocek Yapim, Levent Mah, Calikusu Sok., 14, Levent, Istanbul (Turquie), tél.: (+90-212) 282 78 77, pelinkaya@bocekyapim.com.tr

SYNOPSIS

The Battle of Sar?kam?? was an engagement between the Russian and Ottoman empires during World War I. It took place from December 22, 1914 to January 17, 1915 as part of the Caucasus Campaign. The outcome was a Russian victory with the Ottomans losing territory and over 90,000 soldiers. THE LONG WAY HOME is set on the outskirts of Kars in Eastern Anatolia in the winter of 1915 and takes us to the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Sar?kam??. The land is a no-man’s-land, as the fighting has just ended but the larger conflict between the opposing empires is still ongoing. A disparate group of seven people are seeking to escape the war zone and find a safe path back home. All seven converge on an abandoned Armenian village in the face of a particularly harsh winter. Food is scarce and as days pass and the conditions get worse, conflicts escalate within the group. This is the other face of war, neither the glory of battle nor its horror, but the stuggle of civilians to survive its consequences, the indomitable human will to survive. 
DIRECTOR

Born in Ankara, Turkey in 1973, Alphan E?eli moved to New York where he took his master's in filmmaking and began making music videos and commercials, for which he won a Crystal Apple Award. Returning to Turkey, he co-founded ISTANBUL '74 with Demet Müftüo?lu E?eli in 2009, and he helped create the Istanbul International Arts and Culture Festival. THE LONG WAY HOME is his directorial debut in feature films. 

Montreal World Film Festival 2013 | TIME OF THE LAKE

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TIME OF THE LAKE
2013, Colour, Turkey, First Films World Competition 

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director : Cafer Özgül
Screenwriter : Cafer Özgül
Cinematographer : Ali Özel
Editor : Erkan Tekemen
Cast : Emre Canpolat, Begüm Birgören, Cemil Büyükdö?erli, Didem Balçin, Mehmet Atay
Music : Yurdal Tokcan
Film production and Sales : Focus Film, Gül Sokak 4, 1 Levent, Istanbul (Turquie), tél.: (+90-212) 269 09 67, info@focusfilm.net / TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Co.), tuncay.yureki@trt.net.tr


SYNOPSIS

Turkey in 1930. The entire country is in a state of transition following the Atatürk reforms. Two close friends, Ahmet and Refik, recent medical school graduates, decide to explore Anatolia, emulating the romantics of the 19th century. They arrive at a small town on the Aegean and are lodged by Mr. Ha?im who is an old member of the Party of Union and Progress. His daughter Elif is a shy and a melancholy girl. One night, she and Refik meet by the lakeside and a romance between them is kindled. But Refik is too filled with notions of adventure to settle down. He abandons Elif and travels on to Europe. Ahmet also is smitten by Elif. His attraction unrequited, Ahmet remains in the town just to be near her. As the years go by, Elif continues to wait for Refik. Despite occasional re-encounters, Refik's spark for Elif has never re-ignited, nor has he found anyone to replace her. And Ahmet continues to pine for Elif. Then, one day, Refik returns to town to visit his old friend who has taken ill. The three are together again and there are old scores to settle. 

DIRECTOR

Born in Aksaray-Ortaköy, Turkey in 1964, Cafer Özgül graduated in political science from Ankara University and began working in television production in 1986. Over the years he has written, produced and directed numerous programs in a wide variety of categories. As a producer his 80TH STEP (1995) won best film at the Istanbul Festival and as a director his People of a Captured City series (2003) won the special jury prize at the Sedat Simavi television awards. TIME OF THE LAKE is his first fiction feature as a director. 
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