Bahadır Yenişehirlioğlu

Bahadır Yenişehirlioğlu — Biography

Bahadır Yenişehirlioğlu is a versatile figure whose path runs from law to novel-writing, television acting and politics. Audiences came to know him through the role of Tahsin Pasha in the series Payitaht Abdülhamid, which ran for five seasons on TRT 1. In the 2023 general election he was elected to parliament for Manisa from the AK Party, and he also serves as the party's Group Deputy Chairman.

He finished Akhisar High School in 1979, graduated from the Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law in 1985 and practiced as a lawyer in Akhisar; in the 1994 local elections he stood as the Welfare Party's candidate for mayor of Akhisar. His novels include Aşk Çölü (2014), Beyaz Usta Siyah Çırak, Aşk Cephesi, Kanaviçe, Kara Güneş, Kerime, Tahta At (all 2017), Son Hasat (2018) and Hanne (2020). He has researched peoples and societies in many countries, from China to Morocco and from France to Pakistan, written columns for the newspaper Diriliş Postası and the magazine Cins, and given conferences in Turkey and abroad.

He began acting in 2014 as Sahaf İsmail Efendi in the series Yedi Güzel Adam, and in 2016 appeared in Sevda Kuşun Kanadında. He played Tahsin Pasha in Payitaht Abdülhamid from 2017 to 2021, and appeared in the 2018 film Direniş: Karatay and, in 2021-22, as Derviş in the series Barbaroslar: Akdeniz'in Kılıcı. He is married with two children.