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This week in theaters
Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John’s increasingly dangerous deployments. While meeting only sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous stream of love letters overseas -- correspondence that eventually triggers fateful consequences. Directed by: Lasse Hallström Genre: drama Cast: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Scott Porter, Henry Thomas
‘Köprüdekiler’ (Men on the BrIdge)
Fikret earns a living by selling roses on the Bosporus Bridge. Umut is a dolmuş driver on the Taksim-Bostancı route. Murat has been appointed as traffic policeman to the Bosporus Bridge. The lives and dreams of these three men who live in the ghettos of the big city intersect unknowingly every day with each others’ and those of millions of İstanbulites on the Bosporus Bridge, the heart of the city.
Directed by: Aslı Özge
Genre: documentary
Cast: Fikret Portakal, Murat Tokgöz, Umut İlker
‘Büşra’
Büşra (Mine Kılıç), the daughter of a strictly conservative, well-to-do family, has just graduated from university. Her family wants Büşra to marry Ferit (Coşku Cem Akkaya), the son of another rich and conservative family. But Büşra falls in love with Yaman (Tayanç Ayaydın), a liberal journalist. But the naive love between Büşra and Yaman will cause them trouble.
Directed by: Alper Çağlar
Genre: drama
Cast: Mine Kılıç, Tayanç Ayaydın, Çiğdem Batur, Coşku Cem Akkaya
‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’
Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental US military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of “Warrior Monks” with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy’s thoughts, pass through solid walls and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program’s founder, Bill Django (Jeff Bridges), has gone missing and Cassady’s mission is to find him.
Directed by: Grant Heslov
Genre: comedy
Cast: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang, Nick Offerman, Tim Griffin
‘Dersimiz Atatürk’ (Lesson: Atatürk)
A group of primary school students are assigned homework for which they will have to study the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. An elderly historian will lead the way during the kids’ exploration of Atatürk’s life story, telling them everything about his childhood, his years as a student and his military career, and also taking the kids on a virtual journey among the most important fronts fought during the Turkish War of Independence.
Directed by: Hamdi Alkan
Genre: drama
Cast: Halit Ergenç, Çetin Tekindor, Batuhan Karacakaya
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| Gas is cut while Europe freezes | |||
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| The Kurdish issue has divided the state | |||
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| Private debt stock in Turkey | |||
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| Latest state of affairs in Turkey | |||
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| US, Israel will not attack Iran | |||
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| Turkey's media | |||
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| ‘Religious youth’ | |||
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| The benefit of the MİT crisis | |||
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| Helpless in the face of disaster | |||
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| How did we step into the missionary threat trap ?(2) | |||
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| ‘Future, Inc.’ | |||
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| MİT and government losers in showdown | |||
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| Anger punishes itself | |||
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| Should the Hizmet movement form a political party? | |||
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