Zeki Alasya
Zeki Alasya
Zeki Alasya (18 April 1943 – 8 May 2015) was a Turkish actor and film director. Alasya was of Turkish Cypriot descent and was related to Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha.[1][2][3]
Alasya was born in Istanbul. After studying at Robert College, he joined MTTB Theatre as an amateur actor. For a short time, he worked at Arena, Gen-Ar and Ulvi Uraz Theatre. With some friends, he founded the Devekuşu Kabare Theatre (Ostrich Cabaret Theatre).
From 1973, he started acting in films and gained fame as a comedian paired with Metin Akpınar like Salak Milyoner, Beş Milyoncuk Borç Verir misin, Köyden İndim Şehire, Güler misin Ağlar mısın, Nerden Çıktı Bu Velet, Nereye Bakıyor Bu Adamlar, Hasip ile Nasip and Güle Güle. In 1977, he also took up directing and went on to direct films such as Aslan Bacanak, Sivri Akıllılar, Caferin Çilesi, Petrol Kralları, Doktor, Köşe Kapmaca, Vay Başımıza Gelenler and Elveda Dostum.
Alasya died on 8 May 2015 in the hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for liver disease. He was 72.[4][5] He was laid to rest in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following the religious funeral service held at Levent Mosque. He was survived by his daughter Zeynep Alasya.[6]
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- Atıf Yılmaz, Hülya Koçyiğit, Tarık Akan, Türkan Şoray (1996)
- Fikret Hakan, Müjde Ar, Nejat Saydam, Yılmaz Duru (1997)
- Fatma Girik, Memduh Ün, Kemal Sunal (1998)
- Şerif Gören, Nedim Otyam, Cahit Berkay, Göksel Arsoy, Cüneyt Arkın, Türker İnanoğlu, Osman Şahin, Hayati Hamzaoğlu (1999)
- Kadir İnanır, Ekrem Bora, Orhan Günşıray, Sümer Tilmaç, Filiz Akın, Zülfü Livaneli, Orhan Aksoy (2000)
- Ediz Hun, Suna Pekuysal, Bülent Oran, Sırrı Gültekin (2001)
- Hulki Saner, İzzet Günay, Kartal Tibet, Kenan Kurt, Selda Alkor (2002)
- Kadri Yurdatap, Tunç Başaran, Çolpan İlhan, Muhterem Nur, Tanju Gürsu, Süleyman Turan, Rafet Şiriner (2003)
- Şener Şen, Hale Soygazi (2004)
- Seyfi Havaeri, Efgan Efekan, Nebahat Çehre (2005)
- Aytaç Arman, Yusuf Sezgin (2006)
- Yavuz Turgul, Halil Ergün (2007)
- Yılmaz Atadeniz (2008)
- Vedat Türkali, Ülkü Erakalın, Yalçın Tura, Sevda Ferdağ (2009)
- Ertem Göreç, Safa Önal, Gülşen Bubikoğlu, Nur Sürer, Metin Akpınar, Zeki Alasya (2010)
- Mehmet Dinler, Tuncel Kurtiz, Perran Kutman, Halit Akçatepe, Engin Çağlar (2011)
- Salih Güney, Meral Zeren, Güler Ökten, Necip Sarıcı, Duygu Sağıroğlu (2012)
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