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Mehmet Murat Somer

6:00 Min., arte Metropolis, April 2009

Mehmet Murat Somer is a Turkish author of crime fiction best known for his Hop-Çiki-Yaya series set in Istanbul and featuring an unnamed transvestite amateur detective.

Somer wrote “The Prophet Murders” along with two other novels in his Hop-Ciki-Yaya series.

The narrator sets out to investigate the mysterious death of two of the employees at the transvestite nightclub she runs, only two discover that they are part of a larger sequence of murders of transvestites named after the prophets.

Concerning his personal life, Somer has stated that, "When the [Hop-Çiki-Yaya] books were first published in Turkey, some of my friends thought that I was a drag queen or transgender. In fact I'm not - sorry to disappoint."

The movie introduces the author Mehmet Murat Somer and the transvestite scene of Istanbul.