Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the statue a "freak", and months later it was demolished. Aksoy sued Erdoğan for "moral indemnities", although his lawyer said that his statement was a critique rather than an insult. In March 2015, a judge ordered Erdoğan to pay Aksoy 10,000 lira. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (; ; born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as President of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as Prime Minister from 2003 to 2014 and as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He founded the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001, leading it to general election victories
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