Turgay Tanülkü

Born

18 July 1953 (aged 73)

Place of birth

Uşak

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Turgay Tanülkü was born on 18 July 1953 in Uşak. In 1970-71 he attended the drama courses of the Leningrad Theatre Academy and received training in psychogymnastics. He graduated from the Higher Theatre Department of the Ankara State Conservatory in 1976 and joined the roster of the Ankara State Theatre the same year.

Carrying his stage work into the social sphere as well, the artist founded theatre groups at a school for the blind, in juvenile reformatories and in prisons in eight regions. From 1987 to 1989 he taught acting and stage courses to acting students at Dokuz Eylül University's Performing and Visual Arts program. In 1984 he won an international directing award in Konya; with the plays Yasalar ve İnsanlar and Misafir, which he staged with the Ankara Semi-Open Prison Actors, he was also deemed worthy of a peace prize in directing in Germany.

On television he became known to wide audiences with Şahin Ağa, whom he played in the series Kurtlar Vadisi; he also played a character of the same name in Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz from 2015 to 2021. His roles as Urfalı Ağa in Avrupa Yakası and Mehmet Zarlı in Behzat Ç.: Bir Ankara Polisiyesi, and Tahsin in the film Kağıttan Hayatlar, are among his screen work. As an artist of the State Theatres, he continues his stage work.

Tanülkü appeared in Avşar Film's 2017 film Seni Gidi Seni.