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The biggest names in arabesk, an Arabic-influenced blend of crooning backed by string
choruses and rippling percussion, are Orhan Gencebay and the Kurdish former construc-
tion worker İbrahim Tatlıses.
Cinema
Turkey is a popular location for foreign film-
makers; the James Bond pic
Skyfall
(2012) was
shot here. The homegrown film industry came
of age in the 1960s and 1970s, when political
films were made alongside lightweight
Bollywood-style movies - collectively labelled
Yeşilcam
movies.
The uncompromising Yılmaz Güney was the
first Turkish filmmaker to attract international
attention
. Yol,
which explores the dilemmas of
men on weekend-release from prison, was
banned in Turkey until 2000, and the late direct-
or endured prison and exile. More recent polit-
ical films include Yeşim Ustaoğlu's İstanbul-set
Güneşe Yolculuk
(Journey to the Sun), in which
a Turk mistaken for a Kurd endures injustices.
Fatih Akin's hard-hitting
Duvara Karsi
(Head
On) and
Edge of Heaven
examine Turkish im-
migrant life in Germany; his documentary
Pol-
luting Paradise
covers Turkey's environmental
shortcomings.
Internationally, Nuri Bilge Ceylan has the
highest profile, having won awards at Cannes
for
Uzak
(Distant), a bleak meditation on mi-
grants' lives in Turkey, and
Üç Maymun
(Three
Monkeys).
İklimler
(Climates), which he also starred in, explores male-female relation-
ships.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
(2011), an intriguing all-night search for a corpse in
the Turkish backwoods, features Ceylan's trademark long landscape shots, brooding si-
lences and minimal dialogue.
Music Venues
1 ASPENDOS (
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3 BABYLON (
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5 MUNZUR CAFE & BAR (
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6 ŞANLIURFA (URFA)
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