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İhsan Çankaya

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in Istanbul, Turkey

January 11, 1979

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I was born in Istanbul in 1979. I graduated from the Turkish Language and Literature Department at Boğaziçi University. My first novel, Şener Büyüktürk’ün Sergüzeşti, was published by İthaki Yayınları in 2021. My second novel, From Leaden Circles to Fluid Drops, is my first work written in English.

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The Rise and Fall of Erotic Turkish Cinema (1970–1980)

The 1970s were marked by erotica. The world struggled to emerge from the Victorian mindset that regarded artistic expressions of sexuality as shameful and harmful to society. While Emmanuelle and Histoire d’O broke box office records abroad, Turkish cinema, also known as Yeşilçam—which literally means “green pine”—joined the global wave of erotic filmmaking.

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Published on July 07, 2026 05:53 • Tags: 1970s, censorship, cultural-history, erotic-cinema, exploitation-cinema, film-history, film-studies, popular-culture, turkish-cinema, turkish-history, world-cinema, yeşilçam

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“We just heard Big Ben chime. There are no leaden circles anymore. That was so long ago. It’s similar to mercury, yet non-toxic and rainbow-colored.”
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