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Türk sinemasında unutulmaz Arap Bacı Kalfa karakterini ilk canlandıran ve Yeşilçam filmlerinde dadı rollerinde yer alan sanatçı 1972 yılında ölmüştür. Oyuncu ve ses sanatçısı İbrahim Şirin 'in annesidir. Filmografi. 1949: Efsuncu baba. 1951: İstanbul çiçekleri. 1952: Caz saz. 1952: Edi ile Büdü tiyatrocu. 1952: Yıldızlar revüsü.
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Assigning Black women household duties was a common practice in Ottoman Turkey (Özsoy, 2010). This practice continued until Ottoman Turkey’s late attempt at abolishing slavery at the end of the 1890s. Connected to this history of slavery in Ottoman Turkey, the Arab mammy (Arap Bacı orBacı Kalfa in Turkish) stereotype was one of the early representa...
Dursune Şirin took part in thirty-eight movies over her long acting career and mostly played nameless dadıcharacters. Nonetheless, not all Arab mammies in Turkey were played by Black actors, which leads us to the long tradition of blackface in the popular culture of Turkey. Early cases of blackface in Turkey’s theatre might be connected to the coun...
In 1970, a highly popular movie series,Tourist Ömer, took its audience to Kenya in a sequel called Tourist Ömer is Among Cannibals (1970). The movie tells the story of Ömer, an adventurer from Turkey, heading to Kenya to mine diamonds. Inspired by examples of colonial, white-saviour cinema like Tarzan andIndiana Jones, the movie depicts a new and ‘...
The connection between Blackness, ‘the African’, and ‘monkeys’ is made possible not solely because of Tourist Ömer’s racist journey, Karaböcek’s album or Ergen’s video, but due to historic and persistent discursive constructions of racism. Ergen’s comment recalls a long history of colonial discourse in which Black people were metaphorically represe...
In 2011, Seda Sayan, one of Turkey’s most popular day-time TV presenters, invited Ronnie Coleman, an award-winning Black American bodybuilder, on the show. In a twenty-minute feature, Seda Sayan and her other guest Muammer Ketenci caused a series of cringe-worthy moments with their overall ignorance and racist attitudes. Sayan repeatedly interrupte...
These stereotypes are among the many images that normalise intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in Turkey. Taken together, we can see that elements of comedy, adventure, and desire are used to sugar-coat anti-Blackness as ‘harmless’ and ‘comedic’ rather than what it is: racism. There are, of course, some exceptional Turkis...
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Dursune Sirin was born in 1913 in Istanbul, Turkey. She was an actress, known for Efsuncu baba (1950), Askin gözyaslari (1959) and Bu nasil ask (1953). She died in 1972 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Dursune Sirin was born in 1913 in Istanbul, Turkey. She was an actress, known for Efsuncu baba (1950), Yangin var: Eski Istanbul kabadayilari (1960) and Askin gözyaslari (1959). She died in 1972 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Feb 11, 2021 · Büyük ihtimalle Türkiye’nin ilk Siyah aktrisi olan Dursune Şirin 1913’te Kırklareli’nden doğdu. İlk rolü, Aydın Arakon’un Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar uyarlaması, 1949 tarihli Efsuncu Baba ’daydı. Buradaki rolü ekranda izlediğimiz ilk Arap bacı portresiydi.
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Doğum Tarihi. 01 Ocak 1913. Doğum Yeri. Lüleburgaz-Kırklareli. Ölüm Tarihi. 24 Ocak 1972. BiYOGRAFİ. Siyahi tiyatro ve sinema sanatçımız, 1913-1972 yılları arasında yaşamış, şişman arap bacı rollerinin vazgeçilmez ismi olmuştur. Aynı zamanda Türk sanat müziği sanatçısı İbrahim Şirin’in de annesidir. Oyuncu (76) Yumurcak. Sinema Filmi. 1969.
