Nuri Bilge Ceylan: melancholy poet of his `lonely Turkey`
(WorldNews Turkey)

Wary of the limelight but one of the most prodigiously successful directors ever at Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan has emerged as Turkey`s top modern filmmaker, with his slow-moving but piercing examinations of his homeland`s melancholy soul. Ceylan, 59, known as NBC in Turkey, has an unbeatable track record at Cannes, with every feature he has ever entered in the competition coming home with one of the top awards. ......