Haldun Dormen, a pioneering actor, director, educator and playwright who helped shape modern Turkish theater and introduced Western-style musicals to TΓΌrkiye, died Tuesday at a hospital in Istanbul, where he was receiving treatment. He was 97.
Dormen was one of the most influential figures in Turkish theater, widely regarded as a leading representative of Western-style drama and musical theater in the country.
Born April 5, 1928, in the southern city of Mersin, Dormen was the son of Cypriot businessman Sait Γmer Bey and Nimet RΓΌΕtΓΌ HanΔ±m, the daughter of an Istanbul pasha.
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