The European (Avrupalı) (translated)

Avrupalı is a Turkish comedy film that reached cinemas on October 12, 2007. Ulaş Ak directed the picture, and its principal cast includes Cem Davran, Yasemin Kozanoğlu, Sema Öztürk, İlknur Soydaş, and Aydemir Akbaş.

The story builds its comedy around the intertwined lives of a Turkish family and a Greek family. The character portrayed by Cem Davran finds himself torn between a Turkish girl and a Greek girl, which sets off an unbroken chain of amusing incidents. Along this romantic line, the film turns a satirical eye on Turkey's bid to become more European. Beneath its lively humor, it dwells on the contradictions of a society drifting away from its own roots in an effort to win Europe's approval, and it ultimately argues that, however divided into nations people may be, humanity belongs to one large shared family.