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Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- In colloquial Turkish, the parley zenne means male belly dancer. It is also the title of a new skin that explores sexual identity while also highlighting a deadly case of homophobia in latest-day Turkey.
"The starting point was a dear friend of ours who was murdered in 2008 for being gay by his own old boy," said Mehmet Binay, producer and co-director of "Zenne," which opens in theaters across Turkey on Friday.
Binay was referring to the 2008 bloodshed of Ahmet Yildiz, a 26-year old physics student who was gunned down in Istanbul.
Court records home in on Yildiz's father, Yahya, as the primary suspect in the killing. The pop's motive, according to a copy of the indictment, was that he "did not accept the victim to be in a gay relationship."
More than three years after the slaying, Yildiz's founder is a fugitive, still wanted by Turkish police.
The death has since been widely referred to as Turkey's first gay honor ruinous.
Source: CNN International