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Stories Set in Turkey — top stories

Where continents meet: Byzantine intrigue, Ottoman splendour, Cold War spies and Pamuk's melancholy Istanbul. These ten works run from 1453 to today; StoryTerra's map holds many more, filterable by city and century.

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10 famous stories set in Turkey

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Browse 244 books, 475 movies, 24 TV shows and 18 games set in Turkey.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Paramount Pictures-Lucasfilm Ltd.
movie

In 1938 an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it and the missing man is his…

Setting: Venice, Italy; Austria; Berlin, Germany; Hatay Province, TurkeyTime Period: 1938
Troy

Troy

Warner Bros. Pictures-Plan B Entertainment-Nimar Studios-Radiant Productions-Helena Productions-Latina Pictures
movie

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris the Trojan prince convinces Helen Queen of Sparta to leave her husband Menelaus and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus…

Setting: Ancient Troy, Turkey; Ancient Sparta, GreeceTime Period: Bronze Age Greece
From Russia with Love

From Russia with Love

United Artists-Eon Productions-Danjaq
movie

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the…

Setting: Istanbul, Turkey; Venice, Italy; YugoslaviaTime Period: 1960s
Taken 2

Taken 2

EuropaCorp-Grive Productions-M6 Films-Ciné+-20th Century Fox-Canal+-Dune Entertainment-Taken 2-Fox International Productions
movie

In Istanbul retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

Setting: Istanbul, TurkeyTime Period: 2012
Aftersun

Aftersun

PASTEL-BBC Film-Tango Entertainment-Unified Theory Productions-Screen Scotland-AZ Celtic Films-BFI
movie

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father…

Setting: TurkeyTime Period: 1990s
Mustang

Mustang

CG Cinéma-Vistamar Filmproduktion-Uhlandfilm-Bam Film-Kinology-Ciné+-ZDF/Arte-Turkish Culture Ministry-Film- und Medienstiftung NRW-DFI-CNC-Canal+-FFA
movie

In a Turkish village five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

Setting: TurkeyTime Period: 2010s
Midnight Express

Midnight Express

Columbia Pictures-Casablanca Filmworks
movie

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals…

Setting: TurkeyTime Period: 1970s
Inferno

Inferno

Columbia Pictures-Imagine Entertainment
movie

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

Setting: Florence; Venice; IstanbulTime Period: Contemporary
Paper Lives

Paper Lives

OG Medya-OGM Pictures
movie

In the streets of Istanbul ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood.

Setting: Istanbul, TurkeyTime Period: Present Day
Miracle Doctor

Miracle Doctor

Pınar Bulut,Onur Koralp
tvshow

Ali was born in a provincial town and was rejected by his father for adoption. Ali with savant syndrome, who grew up in orphanages, graduated from the faculty of medicine with a first degree.

Setting: TurkeyTime Period: Contemporary 2019

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