Niyazi Gul, the Galloping Vet (Niyazi Gül Dörtnala)

Hakan Algül directed the 2015 Turkish comedy Niyazi Gül Dörtnala (Niyazi Gul, the Galloping Vet). Written by Ata Demirer and Vedat Özdemiroğlu, it opened on 8 May 2015 and runs 106 minutes. Its hero, Veteriner Niyazi Gül, is one of the first recurring characters Demirer played about fifteen years earlier in sketches on Korsan TV, and the film brings him to the big screen for the first time.

Professor Niyazi Gül, a vet, is a slightly unusual scientist who has understood the language of animals, large and small, since childhood. He is firmly against cruelty to animals for pleasure, hunting and real fur. His employee Hediye helps with the experiments on the secret formula he has spent years on. Living quietly in İzmir, Niyazi is working on a herbal drug that boosts animal performance without showing in the blood; he got the formula from his dying grandfather but lost him before learning the last ingredient. This modest life is thrown into chaos when Sultan Şahmerdan and Rıza Kabakoz bet on racing their horses.

Demet Akbağ, Şebnem Bozoklu, Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu, Levent Ülgen and Ferit Kaya join Demirer. It follows his Eyyvah Eyvah series and, by one critic's count, is his seventh feature, with a flavour of tribute to İzmir.