Movie-making Turks weren’t shy about including earthy subjects or fleshy cinematic scenes within their films since way back to the 1950’s. Then street-walking prostitutes, drug-dependent harem girls, topless damsels in distress, soapy half-naked bathers, sexually provocative belly dancers, and uninvited-lovemaking first started appearing in conventional Turkish moving-pictures.
The ‘intensity’ of erotic action in conventional Turkish films escalated in the 1960’s when ‘lite’ erotic opposite-sex scenes begun to heat up. As well as in Atif Yilmaz’s otherwise conventional Iki Gemi Yanyana (Two Ships Side-by-side), the initial lesbian Turkish movie scene — a scorcher for the day, by which Suzan Avci and Sevda Nur french-kissed on camera — gave Turkish movie goers a surprise in the event it was initially shown in 1963. – porn
Female cinematic sex-symbols through the ‘Age with the Turkish Vamp’ (1950s – 1960s) included Neriman Köksal (who made 177 films between 1950 to 1995), Funda Yanar [pictured on our website being a topless dancer in Büyük Sehrin Kanunu (Big City Law, 1965] and Leyla Sayar — who, in 1960, performed a memorably bold (we have been told) strip-tease act in Atif Yilmaz’s Ölüm Perdesi (Death Curtain)… But Leyla Hanim drew the road in 1972, when she realized the direction when the seks filmleri furyasi (erotic films boom) would lead her. After a brief stint being a night club dancer, she quit the entertainment business altogether… opting instead for a simple, pious life. – erotik
However it wasn’t until 1972 that Parcali Behçet (starring action-man Behçet Nacar) — that was produced in a desperate attempt by film-makers to woo audiences from their newly acquired home TVs and returning to near-empty movie theaters seats — had become the first Turkish film being produced exclusively for purpose of eroticism.
So when Parcali Behçet attracted an overflow opening-day crowd of 7,000 for the initial showing in Konya (Mevlana’s ‘hometown’, in the heart of Turkish religious conservatism) Turkish film-makers took notice (and heart). Subsequently, once the film enjoyed a 6-month run, in two side-by-side theaters smack in middle of that fair city, well, film-makers believed they’d found the ultimate goal. And from that point to 1979, the creation of erotik Turkish films mushroomed.
The 3 most popular genres for legally produced Turkish erotik films between 1972 and 1978 were Comedy, Adventure, and Murder Mystery. And they had a not-very-well-kept secret on them in accordance. The secret was that Turkish actresses and actors didn’t perform sex-act legitimate. They merely simulated it… Men wore underwear (briefs) and camera angles were put to use to hide the very fact — sometimes very little success. Their are lots of flashes of men’s white briefs within the Turkish erotik films made between 1972 and 1978! – sex
Any for-real sex that appeared in these films was done by foreigners in parcalar (movie film clips) which were inserted at predictable intervals of the Turkish film. Sometimes these parcalar were made especially for the Turkish film in which they appeared, in many cases these folks were just crude cuts of foreign films — often entirely inappropriate (in focus or coloring) to the Turkish film.
That kind of erotik film-making subterfuge found a screeching halt in 1979, if the first all-Turkish cast was filmed within the first-ever legally produced and distributed gloves-off pornographic Turkish film, Öyle Bir Kadin Ki (A lady Like this) — directed by Naki Yurter, starring Zerrin Dogan and Levent Günsel inside the leading male and female roles.