Actress Filiz Akın underwent surgery for the second time to remove cancerous tissue from the upper part of her ear. Announcing that he had surgery on his Instagram account, Akın said, "The remaining part of the cancerous tissue in my upper left ear was cut, reduced and reshaped with a second surgery."
Sharing a post from his sick bed, Akın used the following statements:
“My friends and followers who are curious about my health. Good luck to you. Let me answer all of you collectively. The remaining part of the cancerous tissue in my upper left ear was cut, reduced and reshaped with a second operation. Yes, I had to have many surgeries in a row. But what do I suffer compared to what has happened since February 6?”
Who is Filiz Akin?
Filiz Akın (born January 2, 1943, Ankara) is a Turkish film actress, writer and presenter. Along with Türkan Şoray, Hülya Koçyiğit and Fatma Girik, it was considered one of Yeşilçam's four-leaf clovers.
Filiz Akın, who won the admiration of cinema lovers as the noble, modern, urban and elegant face of Turkish cinema, is also known as the European face, college girl and blonde star of the big screen. Along with the movie actors Türkan Şoray, Hülya Koçyiğit and Fatma Girik, she is considered one of the four important actresses who left their mark on a period of Turkish cinema.
After completing her secondary education, Filiz Akın started to work in the Ankara agency of a travel company. She won the 1962 contest of the Artist magazine with the photo she sent. At Memduh Ün's insistence, she agreed to appear in front of the camera for the film Akasyalar Açarken. Thus began her active acting career, which would last for 13 years. She married producer-director Türker Inanoglu, whom she met on the set of the movie Woman Barber in 1964. In 1965, his son İlker İnanoğlu was born. Akın divorced Türker İnanoğlu in 1974 and said goodbye to the cinema in 1975 with the movie Father of the Fathers.
He performed as a singer on stage between November 1975 and May 1981 for economic reasons. She married Bubi Rubinstein in 1982 and settled in Paris. After a break of 14 years, he appeared in front of the camera again in 1989 for the series Past Spring Mimosas. She published her first book with Hello to Beauties in 1992. Divorced from Rubinstein in 1993, Akın married the then MIT undersecretary Sönmez Köksal in 1994. She was at the Paris embassy in 1998-2002. She defeated the nasopharyngeal cancer she learned in 2002 with the well wishes and prayers of her loved ones, as well as the treatment she received in the USA. She published this process and the result in 2005 with the name Hello to Life. The heavy chemotherapy he underwent damaged his vocal cords and changed his voice, and the preparations for the surgery caused hearing loss in one ear. In the following years, he supported various campaigns and participated in panels in order to raise awareness against cancer. In 2006, she published her third book, On Beauty, Weight Loss and Staying Young, with Filiz Akın. In 3, he appeared in front of the camera for the last time for the TV series "Day Evening", for one episode. When the kitchen she entered after forty turned into a passion over time, she said Hello to Taste this time in 2011.
He worked as a columnist for Sabah Newspaper between 2004-2007. With Filiz Akın on Kanal 2008 television channel in 1 SohbetWeekend with Filiz Akın on Habertürk channel in 2009. Sohbetpresented the program.
Playing the spoiled rich girl roles in the early years of her acting career, Akın portrayed mostly innocent, fragile and self-sacrificing women in her later films, breaking the reign of black-haired people and opening the page of blonde main women in Turkish cinema. Birds of Gurbet, Destiny, Hopeless, Ankara Express, Shame and Memleketim are among Akın's most popular films with their character-deep roles.
Akın won the Best Actress award at the 1971 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival with her film Ankara Express, and received many honorary awards especially after 2000.
Filiz Akın had the title of the best dressed actress of Turkish Cinema during her active years in cinema.