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The action, widely believed to be Turkey's first gay "honor killing," has inspired a movie "Zenne," which opened on January 13 and explores gay libidinous identity and prejudice in overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey.

"We had the movie idea in concentration right after our dear friend Ahmet was killed," said Caner Alper, novelist and co-director of the movie. "His story needed to be told."

Yildiz was born into a well-heeled religious family in the ancient city of Sanliurfa, in Turkey's in sore and conservative southeast, but moved to cosmopolitan Istanbul during his university years, seeking more right as a gay man.

In Istanbul, Yildiz started a new life and made new friends; he also began a gay relationship and long run moved in with his boyfriend, who witnessed Yildiz's murder from the window of their apartment on the Asian side of the bishopric divided by the Bosphorus Strait.

In the movie, Yildiz's character is encouraged to recover consciousness out of the closet by a male belly dancer, or zenne, and a German photographer who has moved to Istanbul after a close crisis in Afghanistan, where he accidentally caused the death of several children during a photo fling. Both are fictional characters.

Source: Jerusalem Post