Bangladesh–Turkey relations Ankara. In 1986, the then Turkish prime minister, Turgut Ozal paid a visit to Bangladesh. Turkish President Suleyman Demirel joined Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat at the silver jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh's independence in 1997. In 1998, the two countries co-founded the Developing 8 Countries group. Turkish president Abdullah Gul paid an official visit to Dhaka in 2010. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid a visit to Dhaka in 2010. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid an official visit to Ankara in 2012. Bangladesh and Turkey are among each other's key trading partners. The bilateral trade between the two
Zal Batmanglij Sundance Film Festival. Shortly thereafter, Fox Searchlight Pictures purchased "Sound of My Voice", as well as Batmanglij and Marling's next feature script, "The East". Batmanglij also directed "The East", starring Marling, Ellen Page, and Alexander Skarsgård. The film premiered at Sundance in 2013. Batmanglij and Marling collaborated to create drama series "The OA", which debuted in 2016 on Netflix. It was written by Marling and Batmanglij, who produced the series along with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B, and Michael Sugar of Anonymous Content. Zal Batmanglij Zal Batmanglij (born 1981) is an American film director and screenwriter. He