Fehmi Öztürk
Director, Artist, and Filmmaker in İstanbul
Fehmi Öztürk
Director, Artist, and Filmmaker in İstanbul
He was born in 1985 in Cyprus. He started lying at a young age. He made people believe other truths by telling various lies because he thought his sexual identity was something to be hidden and covered up. In order for his lies not to be exposed, he always had to construct them well and not forget what he told to whom. When she told Filiz Naldöven, who was a good writer during her years at the Turkish Maarif College in Cyprus, why he had set up all these lies one day, she said that she needed to write these lies and changed him life. Now he started to tell his lies to create new stories rather than constructing a different life for himself. Since he thought that cinema is an art of persuasion, he entered the screenwriting class of Dokuz Eylül University Fine Arts Faculty Cinema-TV department and graduated from there in 2007. He has been making Turkey believe his lies by directing television series since 2016, and he has made the world believe his lies with his short films.