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Turgut Atalay (1917–2003) was a painter and stage designer. From 1936 to 1945, Atalay studied at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of Nazmi Ziya Güran, İbrahim Çallı, and Léopold Lévy, and in 1940 joined the Yeniler Group. At the invitation of Muhsin Ertuğrul, Atalay worked as a stage designer at the Istanbul City Theatres, designing sets for some three hundred plays as well as for operas and operettas. Alongside this theater work, Atalay continued to produce figurative paintings.
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