Munir Ozkul, a distinguished Turkish cinema and theater actor, died at his house in Istanbul on Friday, his family confirmed.<\/p>\n
The 93-year-old veteran actor had long been suffering from a respiratory disease and dementia.<\/p>\n
In 1998, he was awarded the honorary title of “State Artist of Turkey”.<\/p>\n
In 1972, he received the Golden Orange Award — known as the Turkish Oscars — for Best Actor for his performance in the Turkish movie Sev Kardesim (‘Love My Brother’).<\/p>\n
One of Ozkul’s most popular performances was in the 1975 comedy film Hababam Sinifi (The Chaos Class) in the role of private school headmaster — a.k.a. Mahmut Hoca.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Munir Ozkul, known for his memorable roles in landmark Turkish movies, passes away after long bout of illness. Munir Ozkul, a distinguished Turkish cinema and theater actor, died at his house in Istanbul on Friday, his family confirmed. The 93-year-old veteran actor had long been suffering from a respiratory disease and dementia. In 1998, he …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,122,74,107,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cinema","category-culture","category-health","category-hot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}