Trivia

For shooting Sefa Mutlu, the judge of the Yumurtalik district in Adana Province, to death in a night club as a result of a drunken row and he has given a prison sentence of 19 years.

An ethnic Kurd, Guney was Turkey's most popular actor before he became a director. As his films got more political, he came under the scrutiny of Turkish authorities and was jailed several times for various political offenses. In the late 1970s he was convicted, in a very controversial trial, of murder and received a long prison sentence. He escaped from prison in 1981 and fled to France.

In 2018, a detailed biography and analysis of all Guney's films as Writer and Director writer by the filmmaker Karzan Kardozi was published in a large 900 page book title "Yilmaz Guney". Published by: Xazalnus Publication. Sulaimani, South Kurdistan.

Education: Ankara University (law); Istanbul University (economics)

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 405-409. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

Has two daughters and one son.