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2. Midnight Express (film) - Wikipedia

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   Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film directed by Alan Parker and adapted by Oliver Stone from Billy Hayes's 1977 memoir of the same name.The film centers on Hayes (played by Brad Davis), a young American student, who is sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of the country.

3. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019 Turkish film) - Wikipedia

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   Miracle in Cell No. 7 (Turkish: 7. Koğuştaki Mucize) is a 2019 Turkish drama film directed by Mehmet Ada Öztekin.It is an official adaptation of the 2013 South Korean comedy-drama film Miracle in Cell No. 7 using the same premise, but with significant changes in story, characters, and tone. [1]

4. Billy Hayes (writer) - Wikipedia

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   William "Billy" Hayes (born April 3, 1947) is an American writer, actor, film director and convicted drug smuggler. He is best known for his autobiographical book Midnight Express about his experiences in and escape from a Turkish prison, after being convicted of smuggling hashish. He was one of hundreds of US citizens in foreign jails serving ...

5. Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite - Wikipedia

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   The film is based on a 1986 novella by Feride Çiçekoğlu, [5] who was inspired by the four years she spent as a political prisoner following the 1980 Turkish coup. [6] [7] [8] Director Tunç Başaran's wife, Jale, served as the film's art director. [9] The film was produced on a very limited budget, as was common in Turkey at the time.

6. Yol (film) - Wikipedia

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   Yol (pronounced; translated as The Way, [1] [2] The Road [3] [4] or The Path [5]) is a 1982 Turkish film directed by Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören. [6] The screenplay was written by Güney, and directed by his assistant Gören, as Güney was in prison at the time.

7. Midnight Express (book) - Wikipedia

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   Midnight Express is a 1977 nonfiction book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer about Hayes' experience as a young American who was sent to a Turkish prison. The US had declared a "War on Drugs" in the early 1970s, and Hayes was made an example of for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. When his sentence was extended to 30 years, he decided ...

8. Turkish court convicts Syrian woman over Istanbul bombing - AOL

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   ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A Turkish court sentenced Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national, to life in prison on Friday over a 2022 bombing that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street, a copy ...

9. The Herd (1978 film) - Wikipedia

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   The Herd (Turkish: Sürü) is a 1978 Turkish drama film, written, produced and co-directed by Yılmaz Güney with Zeki Ökten during Güney's second imprisonment, featuring Tarık Akan as a peasant, forced by a local blood feud to sell his sheep in faraway Ankara.