A digital archive for late Ottoman-early Turkish cinema

Prof. Nezih Erdoğan has been working on this project for a while. It has finally been launched here.It is not user friendly but it contains a treasure. and it is just the beginning… there will be more documents uploaded day by day… and a cinema roundup: A controversial new film — “Valley of the Wolves … Read more

Agenda Palestine: Valley of the Wolves Palestine banned in Germany, Al Jazeera’s Palestine Papers, Gaza Flotilla reports clash…

Release Date Problems for The Valley of Wolves: Palestine from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M A Turkish action movie with alleged anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli overtones will be released Jan. 27 in Germany, causing an uproar because the date coincides with a day to commemorate Holocaust victims, daily Milliyet reported Sunday. Mavi Boncuk | Adding Injury to … Read more

A cinema roundup: Radikal’s 10 Best Turkish Films of 2010 and more…

Controversial film on Nursi gets İstanbul gala Today’s Zaman ?Hür Adam? (Free Man), a movie that recounts the life of Said-i Nursi, a Muslim scholar who lived in Turkey from 1876 to 1960, was screened in İstanbul on The modernist tradition in Turkish Islam and Said Nursi by ŞAHİN ALPAY Last week a film by … Read more