A documentary that portrays the revered founder of modern Turkey as a lonely womanizer with a weakness for alcohol and cigarettes is drawing massive crowds but outraging hardline followers of Mustafa ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Asia news every morning. At 9.05am on Monday sirens sounded across Turkey, traffic halted and flags were lowered to half mast to mark ...

As a Greek-American of South Florida, and fan of Mr. Antonio Banderas, I applaud his decision to pull out of the film about Ataturk. Having my roots in Asia Minor, now part of Turkey, I would not like ...

Can Dundar, a prominent filmmaker and journalist, is a darling of Turkey's secularists. ... Or rather, he used to be before the release of his new documentary about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the ...

A film showing the private man behind the public image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk has not found universal favour, writes Nicholas… A film showing the private man behind the public image of Mustafa Kemal ...

ANKARA: A new film that portrays Turkey’s revered founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as a lonely, hard-drinking man beset by doubts has whipped up emotions in a country still grappling with his legacy 70 ...

Turks venerate Ataturk, the founder of the republic and architect of arguably the most successful social modernisation programme of the 20th century. How much they really want to know him is ...

Kemal Atatürk: a drunkard and bon vivant? To mark the 70th anniversary of the death of the founder of modern Turkey, a film reveals some of the more profane traits of the national hero -- enraging ...

1st part to air on FOX TV on Oct. 29, centenary of Republic of Turkey, then in movie theaters on Nov. 3, with 2nd part to hit big screen on Dec. 22 A new biopic series on the founder of the Republic ...