Ayşe Şasa

Ayşe Şasa was born on January 1, 1941 in Istanbul. Şasa's grandfather, Bekir Şasa, who was of Circassian origin on his mother's side and half-Circassian and half-Kurdish on his father's side, was the General Director of Forestry and his surname was given in his memory. She started her education at Arnavutköy American Girls' College, which was known as Robert College in those years and formed the core of Boğaziçi University today, and graduated from here in 1960.

Then he continued his education at the Administrative Sciences Department of the same school. When he started his screenwriting career in 1963, he described his political views as Marxist. His close friendship with Kemal Tahir, one of the important literary figures of the period, left deep traces in both his personal development and his understanding of art.

Known for his contributions to cinema, Şasa's projects include unforgettable films such as Son Kuşlar, Ah Güzel İstanbul, Utanç and Gramofon Avrat. One of the turning points in his life was the psychological disorder he experienced in the 1980s; He was diagnosed as schizophrenic by doctors and went into a period of seclusion that lasted about ten years.

After this difficult process, he not only regained his health, but also fundamentally changed his perspective. She was married three times and chose her second husband, the master director Atıf Yılmaz. One of his wives, Bülent Oran, was also with him during this period. Şasa, who turned to a more scientific and intuitive philosophy of life after the crisis he experienced, carried the traces of this change in his works; He was particularly influenced by the mystical thinker Ibn Arabi and the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.

Ayşe Şasa passed away on June 16, 2014, in the hospital where she was treated for pneumonia. His body was buried in Sahrayicedid Cemetery. With his contributions to cinema, he continues to be remembered as one of the important names not only of Turkish cinema but also of the world of literature.

The artist attracted attention not only with his scripts but also with the books he wrote. A Spirit Adventure published between 2009-2011, Yeşilçam Günlüğü dated 1993 and his other works were indicators of his versatile knowledge. Dream Reality Cinema, which he prepared together with Sadık Yalsızuçanlar and İhsan Kabil, one of the names that shaped the world of thought, also offers important clues about his understanding of cinema.

Ayşe Şasa was born in 1941 in Istanbul, Türkiye. He passed away on June 16, 2014.

Information taken from TMDB.