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Yahsi Bati

by | Jan 31, 2010 | Western Movies

Cem Yilmaz is a major celebrity in Turkey, where he writes and acts in comedies that are apparently similar to Mel Brooks’s. (His Science Fiction hit parody Gora drew comparisons to Brooks’s Spaceballs.) Now he’s filming a Western spoof called Yahsi Bati, which is about two Turkish civil servants who have come to America bearing a gift from the Ottoman sultan to the U.S. president, sometime in the 1880s. The production values, based on the trailer (search “Yahsi Bati” on YouTube), a


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