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A ‘Silent’ stamp on Cannes Austrian director Haneke won the coveted Palme d'Or for a second time with his film Love/Amour, while Rezan Yeşilbaş won the Short Film Palme D'or for Sessiz / Be Deng.
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Five books everyday! Ministry of Culture and Tourism Libraries and Publications General Manager Prof. Dr. Onur Bilge Kula, explains that last year alone, 1,851 novels were published in Turkey. “Every day, Turkey publishes five different books. This is an incredible literary production.”
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Bonomo takes top spot in jury votes Tonight the Second Semi-Final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcasted live from the Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan, where 18 countries will compete for just 10 places in the Grand Final.
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Yousry Nasrallah: I don’t want my film shown in... Famous Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah recently announced that he does not want his film ‘After the Battle’, which deals with the revolution in Egypt to be shown in Israel.
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Turkish Cinema in Washington D.C. Harriet Fulbright College and Bahçeşehir University are collaborating to stage a first in the U.S. capital as Washington D.C. gets ready to host the International Yesilcam Film Festival.
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Orhan Pamuk: Europe has broken many hearts in... In a recent interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais, Nobel award-winning author Orhan Pamuk stated, “In Turkey, hearts have been broken by Europe, especially those who believed in joining the union.”
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Nobel winner Pamuk opens novel museum in Istanbul Nobel prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk realizes a long-nurtured dream on Saturday with the opening of an actual "Museum of Innocence" - a collection of relics of a half-century of ordinary life - as depicted in his 2008 novel of the same name.
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Turkish films conquer the theater! Out of the 66 films released in Turkey in the first three months of 2012, the majority of film lovers chose to see domestic films.
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USA late to discover Turkey’s rock star Turkey’s greatest rock star of all time, Erkin Koray has now conquered the U.S. with the recent release of Meçhul, which contains a selection of his songs from the 1970’s.
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Fatih Akın in Cannes again The highly-anticipated Cannes Film Festival list was released yesterday: a total of 22 films with hardly any unknown players and heavy on star directors awaits us.
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Pera Museum goes global Turkey’s Pera Museum to join the Google Art Project, which works with Google to provide online access to 151 important art world establishments from 40 different nations.
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