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The Famous Person | The person's occupation, vocation, activity, calling, career, job, metier, rank, preoccupancy, craft, profession, sport, trade, profession, work, organization, etc. | Famous/infamous events
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Necmi Tanyolaç  |
News columnist
(Gözcü Gazetesi -- 2003-5)
| In the news: 9 June 2005... Necmi bey's op-ed column (see left) echoed the feelings of the majority of his professional colleagues -- as he warned about the dangers of governmental news censorship, which have increased since the new TCK came into effect on 1 June.
See related entry on the NRED page. |
| Tarkan Tevetoğlu
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Pop Singer-Performer
About:
His lover, Bilge ÖztürkHis baldız, Berna Öztürk
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In the news: 28 March 2006 -- Tarkan's First All-English-Language Album is about to be released...
April 2005 -- Still wowing his fans, but... In a Turkish entertainment popularity-poll taken among nearly 900 journalists at the end of the 2004 tourist season, Tarkan placed a highly respectable 3rd -- behind his super-star musical collaborator Sezan Aksu and the multi-talented Hülya Avşar. But despite all the success (which he has worked so single-mindedly to achieve), Tarkan says he's not as happy as you'd expect. In his latest interview, he made the standard complaints one often hears from the 'rich and famous' -- that fame is too demanding, that he lacks privacy, etc. In his own words, "My life was more fun before, fame has driven me to isolation. I've had to see a psychiatrist." Awww. Ain't life hard? Gözcü Gazetesi, 24 April 2005 (See photo-article at upper left.)
See mini-article about Media Poll in October 2004 that placed Tarkan third, behind his mentor Sezen Aksu.
Mid-February 2004 -- Couldn't find the needle... Even in İstanbul's rain and snow, hundreds of hopeful models came out for auditions to appear in Tarkan's new OPET commercial. Sadly, none quite had the spark -- as the popstar sent them all home in the slush. Gözcü Gazetesi (See photo- article at far upper left.)
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Pakize Tarzi
Stylish, pioneering woman
in 1932 |
Medical doctor
| ...obtained her medical degree from Istanbul University Medical School in 1932 (during Ataturk's era). Besides being Turkey's first female gynocologist, Tarzi was also a successful medical entrepreneur -- and, though now retired, she still owns a clinic and 7 laboratories that bear her name. |
İbrahim Tatlıses
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Enormously successful, rich, and influential Turkish pop-singer -- oft-accused of unsavory underworld connections a la Frank Sinatra; sometimes movie and TV actor, TV host, never-married notorious ladies-man | ...is very popular with a certain segment of the population but almost equally unpopular with another segment. (Examples: On the one hand, a particularly devoted group of Tatlıses fans have been trying for years to erect an over-sized national statue in his honor. On the other hand, one of his 'detractors' pulled a gun and fired at Tatlıses while he was performing on-stage during a 2004 nightclub gig. Tatlıses's response was to pull his own concealed weapon and to ready it for returning fire -- before security guards brought both 'shooters' under control.) His highly public love-affairs (which began with the teenaged Hülya Avşar during production of their first film together) have kept the tabloids humming for at least two decades. His illegitimate now-teen-aged son (who was mothered by songstress now-turned talk-show host, Derya Tuna) is nick-named Ibo like his father and is often seen at Tatlıses's frequent public appearances -- and on Tatlıses road-trips, when school is out. [BTW... Ms. Tuna (whose relationship with Tatlıses has veered between extreme love and hate over the years) was actually wounded in 2004 by a crazed 'audience member' in a post-performance shooting -- to which some wags tried to connect Tatlıses himself!] He and his most recent paramour Asena (the exotic Turkish belly-dancer) have had more public rows than you can shake a stick at. And, from Germany in 2004-2005 where she retreated 'in fear for her life' (she insists) -- she proclaimed to the news media that she couldn't get nightclub work anymore because of a Tatlıses black-listing that had frightened potential employers. |
| Erdoğan Tokmakçıoğlu |
Secular Newspaper Columnist
(Gözcü Gazetesi)
| In the News:
27 June 2005 -- Cutting through the bird doo-doo... In a sidebar to his personal-interest column today, Erdoğan bey cut right through the latest craziness concerning the never-ending Turkish turban-issue, when he wrote, "Right...If Emine Erdoğan doesn't wear religiously symbolic turbans, then the sparrow in my garden plum-tree, isn't a sparrow." |
| Rahmi Turan
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Newspaper General Manager, Opinion Editorialist, Comic-strip Creator
What Rahmi Bey had to say about:maladroit politicians (August 2005)'crappy' foreign critics (April 2005)
the March 2004 local Turkish elections | A true-believer in Ataturk's "founding principles" and a staunch supporter of a secular Turkish state, Turan currently heads operations at Gözcü Gazetesi (within the Hürriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaaçılık A.Ş. family of companies). In that capacity, his self-assigned duties run the gamut -- from writing a daily front-page editorial column (on almost any topical subject) to overseeing the preparation of a daily comic strip. (The comic strip follows the swash-buckling action adventures of a fictional pre-Ottoman Turkish-hero named Kara Murat. [See Kara Murat comic strip Example 1 and Example 2.] And we'd be remiss if we didn't mention that the comic strip is downright bold when it comes to Kara Murat's active sexual adventures too! [See example coming soon to this page.])
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