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Identify this Famous Turk... Click! To Jim and Peri's Commercial-free CD for Turkish Learning -- now with triple ebook bonus! Also available in Downloadable Broadband Edition Essential Suffixes Printed Book Arzu Okay began a promising movie career in films like these... Her first movie, Ölünceye Kadar (Until Death) written and directed by Safa Önal in 1970. A conventional movie in which Arzu Okay got second-billing behind Ayhan Işık -- when she was still 'sweet sixteen'. Click! Sevgili Hocam (Dear Teacher) written and directed by Hulki Saner in 1972. Another conventional movie starring Sadri Alışk and Arzu Okay in which Sadri's love for Arzu is poignantly unrequited. Click! But she gained everlasting fame in movies like these... Sokak Kadını (Street Woman) written and directed by Çetin İnanç in 1976. An 'erotik' film drama starring Hadi Çaman and Arzu Okay in which Arzu finds temporary happiness in the arms of the köylü Hadi, after being deceived and abused by her first lover Cemil Yağmur. But, with Arzu's full salvation in sight, life deals more cruel blows and she ends up a drunken 'street woman'. Click! Scene from the movie -- Arzu Okay resists her first lover's friend in Sokak Kadını (Street Woman) 1976 Click!

Romance, Love, and Sex Matters in Turkey The Erotik Turkish Cinema Arzu Okay 1/6 Who's the most important 'erotik' female movie star in Turkish cinematic history? Arzu Okay finished (respectably) in 2nd place behind Zerrin Egeliler in the movie poll conducted February 2008 by Sinematik - Alternatif Sinema Kültürü Blogu . Click! Thanks to: Sinematik - Alternative Movie Culture Blog and the Turkish e-Bay website at www.gittigidiyor.com Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do... Also: Deep-inside Dilber Ay White-Hot Real Blonde... the Ceyda Karahan Center The Figen Han Center The Arzu Okay Center The Feri Cansel Story -- an erotik 'Beauty and the Beast' Zerrin Egeliler - (most of) everything you always wanted to know The Seyyal Taner Center The Seher Şeniz Center Turkish Movies Catalog Index Birth of Turkish Movies The Rise of Turkey's 'Erotik' Films Industry Mature British Brides Mature Swedish Brides The 10 Basic Varieties of Unfaithful Turkish Lovers Name that dog! Divorce Turkish-style American Girls The Swinging Beachcomber's Guide to Summer Romance in Turkey The Circumcision Monologues Alev Altın - Turkish Traci Lords 1/2 'Erotik' Movies Database -- Zerrin Egeliler in Yedi Kocalı 'Erotik' Movies -- The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 1/4 Caught straddling the fence...Nalan Çöl To 'Arzu'... and 'seksi' movie clips of young Banu Alkan & Songül Gündüz To 'Sekreter'... and 'erotik' movie clips of young Hülya Avşar The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index Turkish Belly Dancing Stars The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time Turkish Male/Female Personal Names Seda Sayan Sings Up A Storm -- and pleases the eye Next: Part 2 -- Arzu Okay On Top 'Erotik' Movies History -- The Players: Arzu Okay 1/6 Brainy Queen of 'Erotik' Turkish Movies - Arzu Okay - Born 1954 in the Şişli-Bomonti district of İstanbul Though Zerrin Egeliler won the movie poll conducted in February 2008 to determine "The Most Important 'Erotik' Female Film Star In Turkish Cinematic History", Arzu Okay was the second place finisher -- attracting a respectable 31% of the votes cast. (See the movie poll chart, above right, for details.) But, how a sweet-faced 16-year-old beauty ever got herself into the running for such a seksi title race in the first place -- is a pretty amazing story. Arzu Okay at 'sweet 16'... Click! Life under the spotlights started with a bang for Arzu Okay when she won a contest to determine the next Queen Of The Turkish Cinema, organized by Saklambaç, a popular Life Magazine-style photo-magazine, in 1970 -- when she was barely 'sweet 16'. Shortly thereafter, in a similar contest organized for all of Europe, the unknown Turkish teenager blew by her more 'mature' European competition to earn a surprising 4th place finish. Such 'worldly' attention could have bowled over most 16-year-olds. And when it was followed by an offer of a movie-role (in Ölünceye Kadar; Until death) opposite popular actor Ayhan Işık, Arzu Okay might have gone all wobbly in the knees. But she didn't. And during the span of her career (1970-1978), Arzu Okay showed a perky resilience that set her apart from her contemporaries (though Okay and the others were all known collectively as 'The Damned Women'). According to Cihan Demirci149 (the Turkish 'erotik'-film historian), Okay always managed to scrape through, overcoming obstacles of every description. He says, "Those in the know say that Arzu Okay was the most extraordinary of all the Turkish actresses of her era." In the following movie clip from her pre-seks-film days, 'student' Arzu Okay breaks 'teacher' Sadri Alışik's heart (though he tries to show a brave face) in the poignant ending of Sevgili Hocam (Dear Teacher), made in 1972. It's a 2MB Windows Media Video .WMV file... Next: Part 2 -- Arzu Okay On Top Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do...

Also: Deep-inside Dilber Ay White-Hot Real Blonde... the Ceyda Karahan Center Turkish Movies Catalog Index The Figen Han Center The Arzu Okay Center The Feri Cansel Story -- an erotik 'Beauty and the Beast' Zerrin Egeliler - (most of) everything you always wanted to know The Seyyal Taner Center The Seher Şeniz Center Birth of Turkish Movies The Rise of Turkey's 'Erotik' Films Industry Mature British Brides Mature Swedish Brides The 10 Basic Varieties of Unfaithful Turkish Lovers Name that dog! Divorce Turkish-style American Girls The Swinging Beachcomber's Guide to Summer Romance in Turkey The Circumcision Monologues Alev Altın - Turkish Traci Lords 1/2 'Erotik' Movies Database -- Zerrin Egeliler in Yedi Kocalı 'Erotik' Movies -- The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 1/4 Caught straddling the fence...Nalan Çöl To 'Arzu'... and 'seksi' movie clips of young Banu Alkan & Songül Gündüz To 'Sekreter'... and 'erotik' movie clips of young Hülya Avşar Still The Best Little Game Show In Turkey The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index Turkish Belly Dancing Stars The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time #5 Selvi Boylum Al Kazmalım (The Girl in the Red Scarf) Alev Altın 2/2 -- Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll Related: The First All-Turkish 'Gloves-Off Erotik' Movie -- 'Öyle Bir Kadın Ki' (1979) Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The Leading Female/Male Movie Actors Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The 'Supporting' Cast and the 'Ed Wood-style' Director Turkish Kinsey Report Hülya Avşar (and friends) give frikik

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