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  • ‘YEKPARE’ (monolithic)

    ‘YEKPARE’ (monolithic)

    “Yekpare” is a storyteller which narrates the 8500 year story of Istanbul. The story embraces symbols from Pagans to Roman Empire, from Byzantine Empire to Latin Empire, and finally from Ottoman Empire to Istanbul at the present day.

    Haydarpaşa Train Station, with its brilliant gothic architectural forms, is the building on which the story is projected. The connection between middle east to west has been provided by Istanbul and Haydarpaşa since 1906. In the 50’s it served as a door for millions of internal emigrants who have triggered the chaos in Istanbul’s dialectical daily life scenes.The project’s conceptual, political and geographical positioning, the location’s depth of field and the fact that the entire show can be watched from Kadıköy coast; make “Yekpare” a dramatic presentation.

    The first day of the performance also marks the 47th deathday of Nazım Hikmet Ran, the famous Turkish poet. We started out with a quote from his epic novel, “Human Landscapes from My Country”: “At Haydarpaşa Train Station, in the spring of 1941, it is three o’clock. Sun, exhaustion and rush lay on the stairs…”

    Art Direction & Visuals:

    Deniz Kader – Candaş Şişman

    Music:

    Görkem Şen

    Project Management:

    Erdem Dilbaz

    Technical Advisers: Refik Anadol – Alican Aktürk

    Modelling: Gökhan Uzun – Can Dinlenmiş

    Special Thanks to: Efor Production, Visio – Vox, Sinevizyon, Yakup Çetinkaya, Gökhan Kurtuluş, Elif Kavalcı, Lokman Doğmuş, Baran Gülerşen, Ümit Özdemir, Tolga Dizmen, Murat Durusoy, Ahmet Türkoğlu, Mustafa Nurdoğdu

  • PETITION FOR TRNC RECOGNITION

    PETITION FOR TRNC RECOGNITION

    KKTC Tanıtma Derneği, 80 bin imza toplamak hedefiyle “Tanınmak İstiyoruz” isimli imza kampanyası başlatıyor. Kıbrıs Barış Harekatı’nın yıldönümü 20 Temmuz’da başlayacak ve 80 gün sürecek olan kampanyada toplanacak imzalar ve tanınma talep eden mektup, “en az yüz kişilik bir kafileyle” New York’a gidilerek Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) Genel Sekreterliği önünde yapılacak basın açıklamasının ardından Genel Sekreter’e sunulacak.
    KKTC Tanıtma Derneği, 80 bin imza toplamak hedefiyle “Tanınmak İstiyoruz” isimli imza kampanyası başlatıyor.
    Kıbrıs Barış Harekatı’nın yıldönümü 20 Temmuz’da başlayacak ve 80 gün sürecek olan kampanyada toplanacak imzalar ve tanınma talep eden mektup, “en az yüz kişilik bir kafileyle” New York’a gidilerek Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) Genel Sekreterliği önünde yapılacak basın açıklamasının ardından Genel Sekreter’e sunulacak.
    Derneğin, bu konuda daha fazla ses getirmek için BM’ye sunulacak imzalarla mektubun eş zamanlı olarak KKTC’nin temsilcilikleri bulunan ülkelerde de dışişleri bakanlarına sunulmasını planlandığı belirtildi.
    KKTC Tanıtma Derneği Genel Başkanı Efgan Bilgi, kampanyayla ilgili bugün düzenlediği basın toplantısında, “KKTC’nin tanınması sadece Kıbrıs Türkü için gerekli değil, tüm Türk ulusunun başındaki dertlerin tamamının çözümüne en büyük vesile olacaktır” dedi.
    Bilgi, 80 gün sürecek kampanya çerçevesinde tüm köyleri gezeceklerini ve kampanyayı anlatarak imza toplayacaklarını belirtti.
    15 Kasım’da imzaların toplanmasının ve hazır olmasının hedeflendiğini söyleyen Bilgi, imzaları derneğin kuruluş yıldönümünde sergileyeceklerini söyledi.
    Derneğin konseyleşme çalışmalarına da değinen Bilgi, bu yöndeki çalışmaların büyük ilgi gördüğünü ve derneğe bunun için bağışlar yapılmakta olduğunu anlattı.
    Bilgi, derneğin 17 Temmuz’da genel kurula gideceğini ve yönetim kurulu için üyelik aranmayacağını da belirtti.
    Derneğin; halkın devlete olan güvenini yükseltmek, adaletli ve demokratik yapıyı korumak, milli gün ve anıları yaşatmak, çağdaş Kıbrıs Türk gencinin dünya ile yarışabilecek bilgi beceride olduğunu göstermek ve tüm tanınma faaliyetlerini bir düzen intizama almak maksadıyla 6 komite kuracağını ifade eden Bilgi, bu komitelerin; “Devlet Alacakları Takip Komitesi”, “Vatandaş Şikayetleri Komitesi”, “Milli Günler ve Organizasyon Komitesi”, “Dış İlişkiler Komitesi”, “Turizm ve Tanıtma Bütçeleri Takip Komitesi” ve “80 Günde 80 Bin İmza ve New York Komitesi” olduğunu dile getirdi.
    Bilgi, bütün gayretlerinin; halkın devletine sahip çıktığını ve tanınma istediğini tüm dünyaya duyurmak olduğuna vurgu yaparak, herkese kampanyaya katılma çağrısında bulundu.
  • Turkey’s President opens Embassy, Culture Center in Kazakhstan

    Turkey’s President opens Embassy, Culture Center in Kazakhstan

    Culture CenterTurkey’s President Abdullah Gul inaugurated Turkey’s Embassy and a Turkish Culture Center in the Kazakh capital Astana on Wednesday.

    Delivering a speech in the inauguration ceremony, Gul said, “we are very happy because we are opening the new building of the Turkish embassy.”

    Gul recalled that Turkey was the first country that recognized the independence of Kazakhstan.

    Later Gul and Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited the International Exhibition of Arms and Military-Technical Equipment KADEX-2010 in Astana.

    President Gul also met with Kazakh and Turkish businessmen over a luncheon.

    Yunus Emre Culture Center, named after a 13th century Turkish poet and Sufi mystic, has become the fifth culture center opened abroad. Yunus Emre Foundation had earlier opened centers in Sarajevo, Tirana, Cairo and Skopje. The foundation plans to open new culture centers in Cologne, London, Moscow, Paris and Damascus this year.

    President Gul also said that Yunus Emre Culture Center aims to keep Turkish language and culture alive, and also to spread it.

    He said that Turkish culture prevailed in the Balkans and Central Asia, adding that these culture centers would help those who want to learn Turkish.

    Following the inauguration ceremony, Gul also visited a Turkish-Kazakh high school in Astana.

    Later, Gul departed from Kazakhstan to return home.

    AA

  • Filmmaker Jafar Panahi will be freed on bail late today

    Filmmaker Jafar Panahi will be freed on bail late today

    By Ladane Nasseri

    May 25 (Bloomberg) — Iranian filmmaker and opposition supporter Jafar Panahi, who was invited to be a juror at the Cannes film festival, will be freed on bail late today, weeks after directors including Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese called for his release.

    A bail equivalent to $200,000 was posted, Panahi’s wife, Tahereh Saeedi, told the Iranian Labour News Agency today. “Based on what we are told, he will be released tonight between 7 and 11 p.m.” Iran time.

    “It has been agreed for him to be released on bail and the legal process and the judicial steps are being followed,” Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi was quoted as saying yesterday by the state-run Iranian Students News Agency. He didn’t say when the release or further court proceedings in the case would take place.

    Panahi, a backer of the movement that grew out of protests against last year’s disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was detained on March 2. Charges against him include making a movie without a permit and wearing a green scarf, a symbol of the opposition, at a film festival abroad, his wife said last month.

    Saeedi, who was detained with Panahi and later released, has said he was planning to direct a film about the problems of a family of four amid the political unrest prompted by Ahmadinejad’s victory in the June 12 vote.

    Spielberg, Coppola and Scorsese were among directors who signed a petition last month urging the Iranian government to release Panahi, saying filmmakers in Iran “should be celebrated, not censored, repressed and imprisoned.”

    ‘Attack on Art’

    Fellow Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, whose film “Certified Copy” premiered at the Cannes film festival, also made an appeal at the event last week for Panahi’s release, the U.K.’s Guardian reported.

    “When a filmmaker is imprisoned, it is an attack on art as a whole,” Kiarostami told reporters, according to the newspaper. “We need explanations. I don’t understand how a film can be a crime, particularly when that film has not been made.”

    French actress Juliette Binoche, who starred in Kiarostami’s film and won the best actress award for the role at Cannes, wept when she heard that Panahi started a hunger strike on May 16, Agence France-Presse reported. Binoche brandished a sign with the name of Panahi as she faced the audience after receiving her award, AFP said on May 23.

    Several of Panahi’s films have been banned in Iran, including “Crimson Gold,” which looks at the privileges of Iran’s upper class through the eyes of a pizza-delivery man and won the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2003. Also banned is “The Circle,” which portrays the harsh aspects of life for several women in the Islamic nation. It won the Golden Lion award at the 2000 Venice film festival.

    More recently, Panahi won the second-highest award at the 2006 Berlin film festival with “Offside,” a comic tale about a government ban on women and girls attending soccer games.

    –Editors: Philip Sanders, Heather Langan

    To contact the reporter on this story: Ladane Nasseri in Beirut at [email protected].

    To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg at [email protected].

    The Bloomberg

  • Plans for Turkish Cultural Centre

    Plans for Turkish Cultural Centre

    Turkish Cultural centre

    News Release           19th May 2010

    Turkish NGOs joined to discuss plans for Turkish Cultural Centre

    Turkish NGO’s attended a meeting which was held in London’s Pasha Hotel on Sunday 9th May 2010 to discuss the plans for Turkish Cultural Centre. Many Turkish NGOs attended the meeting which was organised by Filiz Kirim to brainstorm a plan for Turkish Cultural Centre where Turkish arts, music and culture can be performed and promoted.

    The organiser of the meeting Filiz Kirim, highlighted that their intentions are non political and solely to unite Turkish NGOs to conceptualize a plan for pulchritudinous Turkish Cultural Centre, located centrally in London, a centre that Turkish Community really deserves.

    The meeting developed into general discussion points on the mission and the structure of The Turkish Cultural Centre. The Representatives of the Turkish NGOs highlighted that they have organised a Turkish Day which many British people attended to discover Turkish Culture.  The Turkish NGOs declared that they will do all they can, including sharing their past experiences so that past failures do not occur in the future.

    At the meeting it was unanimously agreed that the proposed Turkish Cultural Centre should be named as “Turkish World Arts and Cultural Centre” so that this could enable artists from all around the Turkish World to participate, perform and promote their art, pictures, music, cinema, and theatre. It was also agreed that the organisation should be a Non-Profit organisation. Furthermore at the meeting it was agreed by participants that The Yunus Emre Charity and Goethe Institute organisations examples should be looked into detail and used as an example case for the proposal.

    Londra Türk sivil toplum örgütleri temsilcileri Türk Kültür Merkezi hazırlık çalışmaları amacı ile toplandı

    Londra sivil toplum örgütleri, İngilteredeki yabancılara Türk sanatını, müziğini ve kültürünü tanıtacak, bir Türk Kültür Merkezi kurmak amacı ile 16 Mayıs 2010 Pasha Hotelde toplandı. Toplatıya birçok Türk sivil toplum örgütleri temsilcisi katıldı.

    Toplantıda, daveti düzenleyen Filiz Kırım, amaçlarının siyasi olmadığını, tek amaçlarının İngilterede bireylerimizi ve sivil toplum kuruluşlarımızı bir araya toplayarak, Türkiye’nin adına yaraşacak, Londra’nın merkezinde ve güzel bir binada bir Türk Kültür Merkezi  kurmak olduğunu ifade etti.

    Toplantının ana temasını, kurulacak Kültür Merkezi için öncelikle misyonunun ne olacağı ve bununla birlikte nasıl bir yapılanma içerisinde olacağı oldu.

    Toplantıda söz alan sivil toplum örgütleri temsilcileri, yakın geçmişte Türk günü  düzenlendiğinin, bunun İngiliz toplumunda büyük bir ilgi uyandırdığını ifade ettiler. Sivil toplum örgütleri ayrıca bu konuda, senelere dayanan tecrübelerini paylaşacaklarını ifade edip, “böylece geçmişte yaşanan aksilikler yaşanmaz” diyerek görüşlerini bildirdiler.

    Toplantıda kurulması düşünülen,Türk Kültür merkezinin, tüm Türk Dünyasına hitap etmesi açısından, isminin Turkish World Arts and Cultural Centre olmasına oy birliği ile karar verildi.  Beş kıtaya yayılmış Türk dünyasıdan gelen sanatçıların, resim, fotoğraf sergilerinin, müzik, sinema ve tiyatro yapılacağı Kültür merkezinin,  ileride, kar gütmeyen Non-Profit bir kurum olarak kurumsallaşmasına karar verildi. Sonuç itibari ile Yunus Emre Vakfının ve Goethe Institute gibi kültür merkezlerinin örnek olarak incelenmesine, gerekli gördüğü takdirde örnek alınmasına karar verildi.

    Ends/

    Notes to editors

    If you want more information on Turkish Cultural Centre please contact Filiz Kirim.

    Contact : Ms. Filiz Kırım T:+44 (0) 7986851828                                        E:[email protected]


  • plans for Turkish Cultural Centre

    plans for Turkish Cultural Centre

    Turkish NGO’s joined to discuss plans for Turkish Cultural Centre

    Turkish NGO’s attended a meeting which was held in London’s Pasha Hotel on Sunday 9th May 2010 to discuss the plans for Turkish Cultural Centre. Many Turkish NGO’ s attended the meeting which was organised by Filiz Kirim to brainstorm a plan for Turkish Cultural Centre where Turkish arts, music and culture can be performed and promoted.

    The organiser of the meeting Filiz Kirim, highlighted that their intentions are non political and solely to unite Turkish NGO’s to conceptualize a plan for pulchritudinous Turkish Centre that is located centrally in London which Turkey really deserves.

    The meeting developed into general discussion points on the mission and the structure of The Turkish Cultural Centre. The Representatives of the Turkish NGO’s highlighted that they have organised a Turkish Day which many British people attended to discover Turkish Culture. The Turkish NGO’s declared that they will do all they can, including sharing their past experiences so that past failures do not occur in the future.

    At the meeting it was unanimously agreed that the proposed Turkish Cultural Centre should be named Turkish World Arts and Cultural Centre so that this could enable artists from all around the Turkish world can participate, perform and promote their art, pictures, music, cinema, and theatre. It was also agreed that the organisation should be a Non-Profit organisation. At the meeting it was all agreed by participants that Yunus Emre Charity and Goethe Institute organisations examples should be looked into detail and use as an example case for the proposal.

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