A while back while browsing the IMDB, I discovered that Turkan Soray was having a birthday soon. On Thursday, she will turn 62. Soray made an impressive transition from romantic melodrama leads to substantial serious films with political themes.
My three personal favorite Soray films are "Hayatim Sana Feda/Feda, My Love" (1970), "Hazal" (1979)_ directed by famed Turkish director Ali Ozgenturk, and "On Kadin/Ten Women" (1987)_directed by another internationally recognized filmmaker Serif Goren. The last two mentioned are both feminist films!
She co-starred in many films with Cuneyt Arkin, the subject of my last entry, and Kadir Inanir, who would have made a great soap actor had he lived in New York instead of Istanbul.
Soray has appeared in close to 200 films, some of which were in all likelihood filmed simultaneously. She began acting at age 15 in 1960 with the film "Ask Ruzgari/The Wind of Love," and she was a household name in Turkey by the mid-1960s.
According to wikipedia, Soray gave very strict rules to directors and producers who wnated to work with her. The "Soray Rules" included her prior approval of the script, her refusal to film outside the city of Istanbul and her refusal to work on Sundays.
Soray appears in films less often today. Alas, none of her films have been released in the USA, though many are available through the Brooklyn-based Turkish outlet Tulumba.
I should add that Soray is still gorgeous........
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