Alp Korkmaz

Alp Korkmaz — Biography

Alp Korkmaz is an actor best known for playing the sniper Commissioner Ali Akdoğan in Kanal D's long-running police series Arka Sokaklar. After carrying the role for years he left the show, returned to the same character with the 20th season in September 2025 and continues to play Ali today.

He spent his childhood and youth in Istanbul and Çanakkale and finished high school in Çanakkale. He went to the United States for university, studying radio and television at the University of South Florida, then trained as an actor at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York. Back in Turkey in summer 2006, he caught Türker İnanoğlu's eye within a month and joined the cast of Arka Sokaklar, which began airing on July 31, 2006. He took a short break between April and September 2010 for military service in Bingöl. On June 18, 2021, after 15 seasons and 594 episodes, he left the series, and he was then reported to be moving to the series Sadakatsiz.

His first film was Ertekin Akpınar's Melekler ve Kumarbazlar (2009), followed by Laz Vampir Tirakula (2012) and Peri Masalı (2014), and in 2018 he appeared in the series İkizler Memo-Can. He had earlier acted in the series Fırtına. He has done voice work on various projects, and in 2011 he appeared with Özgür Ozan in a Turkcell commercial.