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The Seks Furyasi (sex-movie boom) years of Turkish erotic films (1972-1985)

7,000 family attended the slit gala of Turkey's archetypal home-grown sex moving-picture show...

It's not agreed correctly when external erotic films were preliminary introduced to the Ottomans, but it's reportable that constabulary captured a large-scale cache of outside sex films in 1922 (a year until that time Atatürk abstracted the final Ottoman Sultan from 'power' and made Turkey a representative form of government). The Istanbul police force (acting on a tip from obvious subject Dr. Besim Omer Pasa) raided and closed down the Kadiköy and Odeon celluloid houses, that were showing lifelike external sex cinema - on the information that "the films are toxic condition our youth".

Subsequently, the 'legitimate' Turkish film commercial enterprise (which had been officially established in 1914 during the Ottoman Age) unbroken to burgeon and do well up until the rash 1970s (as we've simply delineated on our website).

But after Turkish Television (TRT) started broadcast medium on a solitary vessel in 1964, Turkish audiences began to avoid film houses in favour of their locale TV sets (even conversely TRT programs didn't create until 4 in the afternoon and were all in dark and white - and even conversely they consisted largely of news, Halk (Cultural Folk) Music programs, Casper-like cartoons, and re-runs of US riddle [The Fugitive] and investigator [Colombo] shows - with Turkish soundtrack).

Peri and I watched Colombo all period of time after we got ringed in December '74. And the guy who did the soundtrack for Colombo's Turkish sound was superb - perfectly capturing Peter Falk's pebbly wholesome.

And by the primaeval 70's (as more than families came to own in person TV sets) the Turkish film industry was in exacting pecuniary problem.

In a panic, show producers sought-after way to carry audiences rearmost to the film houses. It wasn't extended until that time they concluded that 'Sex Sells' and, in 1972, they started production erotic pictures.

The theory was an second natural event... Seven m population accompanied the gala space of the original Turkish erotic motion picture "Parçala Behçet" (see the show bill via the intertwine a smaller additional down) - orientated by Melih Gülgen, and star Behçet Nacar in the leading masculine office. It staring in Konya, of all places, in the intuition of Turkish pious political orientation - and it was the set in motion of something big...

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