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News from UNIMA: Turkey

19th INTERNATIONAL BURSA KARAGÖZ, PUPPET AND SHADOW THEATER FESTIVAL

Notices, Turkey - 9/11/2021

On behalf of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, Bursa Culture, Art and Tourism Foundation and with the UNIMA Turkey National Center supports we have the pleasure to inform you that the 19th Bursa International Karagöz, Puppet and Shadow Theater Festival will take place on 15-19 DECEMBER 2021 in Bursa, Turkey. Our aim is to introduce “Shadow and […]

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Death of Tacettin Diker

Turkey - 7/04/2014

Tacettin Diker, Turkish Karagöz Master, passed away on 31 March in Ä°stanbul. He was one of the founders of UNIMA Turkey and one of the “Living Human Treasures” of Turkey.   He was born in 1923 in Ä°stanbul, Turkey. He begun to be interested in Karagöz and traditional Turkish  theatre from 1930. He performed his first […]

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