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Türker İnanoğlu


Türker İnanoğlu was born in Safranbolu, on May 18th, 1936, to his father, medical doctor Hakkı Nevin who can speak French, Persian, and Arabic, and his mother Nazmiye Hanım, a member of Çizmecioğlu family from Safranbolu elites. He spent the first 15 years of his life in Safranbolu. 
            
İnanoğlu took his first step into cinema when he was a student of the Graphics Department of the Academy of Applied Fine Arts, and showed himself in a short time with his hard work and assisted famous directors Ömer Lütfi Akad and Nişan Hançer. He took part in 11 films as an assistant director at Yeşilçam and started directing in 1958. "Sensiz Yaşayamam (I Can't Live Without You)" was the first movie directed by him.
            
He founded the Erler Film Company -which has an important place in the history of Turkish cinema- in 1960 and produced 213 feature films. He directed 78 of these films himself.
            
Türker İnanoğlu expanded the Turkish cinema industry abroad and initialised international joint film production. He made 21 co-productions with Iran, Greece, Hong Kong, and Italy, making Yeşilçam and Turkish actors gain recognition abroad. He also worked as an executive producer in many American, French, German, and Japanese films that were shot in Turkey.
            
By investing in videotape technology, which was starting to become widespread globally just before the eighties, he established a video distribution company, "ITE Films Limited," in England in 1978. İnanoglu, who organises the international distribution of video films, introduced our country to videocassette technology with the National Video company he founded in 1979.
            
Türker İnanoğlu established the television studios, National Radio and Television, which provide technical production support for TRT and private televisions, in 1985. Here, various news and entertainment programs such as "Bir Başka Gece (Another Night)," "Hodri Meydan (Bring it On!)", "Gecenin Getirdikleri (What the Night Brings)" were prepared for TRT. With the launch of private television channels, over 10 thousand hours of programs were prepared for Star TV, Show TV, Kanal 6, ATV, and Kanal D broadcasting companies.
            
With his visionary perspective and entrepreneurial identity, İnanoğlu, a director, producer, screenwriter, and publisher in Turkish cinema, has also reflected his innovative works in cinema management. He brought Beyoğlu Atlas and Şişli City Cinemas, the oldest cinemas in Istanbul, to life and granted Türker İnanoğlu Maslak Show Center, located in Maslak, İstanbul, to his country in 2005. 
            
He started non-governmental activities as a member of the Board of Directors of the Filmmakers Association in the 1960s and founded the Turkish Filmmakers Association in 1973 with eight of his friends. In addition, he founded the Film Producers Association (FIYAP) in 1982 and continued its presidency for a long time, and later became the founding member and first president of the Cinema Work Owners Professional Association (SE-SAM). He also took an active role in enacting many laws and professional regulations required for Turkish cinema.
            
İnanoğlu became is the honorary president of SE-SAM and established the Türker İnanoğlu Cinema Foundation (TÜRVAK) in 1997 and transferred all the films he produced and the TV programs that he owned to this foundation. Cinema and Television Education Centre within TÜRVAK and Cinema Theatre Museum, which is the first and only example of its kind in Turkey, are his efforts.
            
The works published under the name of "TÜRVAK Books" are masterpieces about cinema and television broadcasting. His books were titled "Experiments on Cinema-TV," in which he brought together his articles published in various newspapers and magazines, and "Turkish Cinema with 5555 Posters", in which he collected the posters of films of Turkish cinema until 2004, are the memories of Turkish cinema. Again, based on İnanoğlu's life story, the biographical work "Bay Sinema (Mr. Cinema)," in which the adventure of cinema and television broadcasting in our country is told, was published from the pen of Giovanni Scoglamillo.
            
Türker İnanoğlu, who dedicated his life to Turkish cinema, has received many awards from many institutions and organizations, especially from The International Antalya Film Festival Izmir Municipality, Izmir Fair Administration, Istanbul Culture and Art Foundation, and Ministry of Culture.