Hakan kurtas biography books

Turkish actor (born )

Hakan Kurtaş (born 7 September ) is a Turkish actor, musician and composer.

Early life

After completing his education at Bursa Anatolian High School, Kurtaş graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory Theatre Department. His mother is an economist and his father is a pediatrician. His mother graduated with a degree in economics when he was 3 years old, and then took the final exams again and graduated as an art teacher. He has two younger brothers. Before college, he played basketball in professional clubs. He drew cartoons and made music in his free time. His cartoons were published in Leman and Uykusuz humor and cartoon magazines for a while.

Career

Kurtaş became interested in theatre while in middle school but decided to become an actor in high school. In , he joined the DOT theatre and was cast in the play Punk Rock. He made his television debut in ATV's series Ezel, portraying the character of "Can Uçar" in the final episode. He had his breakthrough with Kanal D's Bir Çocuk Sevdim (–12), portraying the leading role of Sinan Harmangil. In , together with Hatice Aslan, he starred in the movie Vücut playing the character of İzzet Gündoğdu.

In , he joined the DOT theater again to play the role of a boxer in the play Beautiful Burnout/Süpernova, directed by Murat Daltaban. He took boxing lessons in order to prepare for the role. He was then cast in Esme Madra's short film Meşakkat ve Karısı, which was a nominee in the best fictional short film category at the Akbank 9th Short Film Festival. In , together with Ulaş Tuna Astepe and Efe Tunçer, he founded the music band Bir Aralık. Kurtaş is active a

The first authorised biography of Jamaican sound engineer Osbourne Ruddock aka King Tubby has been translated to English. Penned by Thibault Ehrengardt, it follows a life of soundsystems, dub and electronics, from his origins in Waterhouse, Kingston, and his life's work at the Waterhouse Studio, up until his murder in February

"Writing King Tubby's world's first biography wasn't easy!” explains the official Facebook page. “Despite the agreement with his daughter Arleen Ruddock, things didn't go exactly as planned. [] workers' withdrawals, requests for remuneration for interviews, refusal to cooperate from police departments.” They did it though, and it's now available alongside a host of rare photographs offered by Ruddock's family.

Described as “Very well written with a lot of reggae gossip!”, It was originally published in in French.

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Turkish TV series or program

Filinta is a Turkish detective fiction television drama series created for TRT1 by Yusuf Esenkal and Serdar Öğretici. Filmed in Seka Park Film studio, it was shot in İzmit in the largest film set ever built in the history of Turkish TV series.

The series, the first detective TV fiction set in the Ottoman period, premiered on TRT1 in Turkey on December 23, It aired until As of it was one of the most expensive television series in Turkey. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a source described Filinta as "like a crude Ottoman Downton Abbey".

Cast

Production

In Bobby Roth directed extra scenes for the series. "The series' set is one ot Europe's largest television sets and includes an exact replica of the old city of Pera, including its tram; it was built on a 40, m2 set (on a , m2 plot) in Izmit"

Spinoff

The characters of Zeyrek and Çeyrek reappear in he spinoff comedy series Zeyrek ile Çeyrek .

Reception

President of TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife Emine have visited the production set, congratulating the production team.

See also

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References