About Türker İnanoğlu
Türker İnanoğlu (18 May 1936 – 2 April 2024) was a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer. == Personal life and death == İnanoğlu married first the film actress Filiz Akın, and after his divorce Gülşen Bubikoğlu, another former Turkish movie star. He had two children, a son, İlker, from his former marriage and a daughter, Zeynep, from his last marriage. İnanoğlu died in Istanbul on 2 April 2024, at the age of 87. On 4 April 2024, he was interred at Kanlıca Cemetery following the religious service at Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha Mosque in Levent. == Career == İnanoğlu came in contact with the cinema when he was a student at the Istanbul Academy of Applied Fine Arts in 1957. After working as assistant to directors Ömer Lütfi Akat and Nişan Hançer in eleven movies, he directed in 1960 his first feature Senden Ayrı Yaşayamam. After directing nine movies in the studios of Yeşilçam, the Turkish Hollywood, İnanoğlu established in 1959 his own film company Erler Film, which is today the oldest film production company in Turkey still in business. Since then, he produced 126 black-and-white and color films, among them 21 co-productions with Greece, Italy and Iran. He executed also the productions of American, Japanese, French and German filmmakers’ documentary films shot in Turkey.
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