Teoman’s web-only video; Turks pretending to be happy; Turkish B-movies…

Turkish rocker Teoman released a new music video on the web, “ruhun sarışın”. Because it may be labeled as obscene, producers decided to make it web-only according to Hürriyet. These two versions of the video can also be found in Teoman’s official site.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcqdpu_teoman-ruhun-saryyyn-good-jewish-gi_music

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According to Turkish Statistical Institute 85,4 % of Turks state that they are happy. (my ass) More in Turkish here.

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A high school kid committed suicide when his mother was put into prison due to the debt of tutorials for national university exams..

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Turkey’s much-derided super heroes make Internet comeback

With their plush monsters, tin robots and space heroes wielding plywood swords, Turkish B-movies dating back decades ago have found a new audience on the web, seduced by naivety and technical failure in the extreme.

The most-derided examples of the genre have attracted hundreds of thousands on video-sharing sites like YouTube to win global fame for the bizarre Turkish versions of Superman, Spiderman, Star Wars and Tarzan, produced mostly between 1965 and 1985.

For Regis Brochier, a French specialist on B-movies, Turkey has offered the world a whole new genre — “very naive and absolutely uninhibited” — with a careless attitude to technical challenge, weak continuity, aberrant sound-mixing and a complete disregard of intellectual property.

Undated hand out picture showing turkish actors during a scene dof a film by Turkish film director Yilmaz Atadeniz. With their plush monsters, tin robots and space heroes wielding plywood swords, Turkish B-movies dating back decades ago have found a new audience on the web, seduced by naivety and technical failure in the extreme. (AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)

This undated hand out picture shows turkish actors during a scene of a film by Turkish film director Yilmaz Atadeniz. After having seduced the Turkish movie goers with their naivete and their cheekiness, Turkish B-movies are gaining in world wide popularity.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)