Batuhan Aydar

Batuhan Aydar — Biography

Batuhan Aydar is an actor who stepped in front of the camera as a child and carried on in television, cinema and presenting. The public first got to know him through the small boy in Demet Sağıroğlu's 1995 video for Arnavut Kaldırımı, and the press still revisits that clip and how he has changed since. Originally from Adana, he was born in Istanbul and studied at Anadolu University.

His first encounter with a camera came in a commercial at six months old; he appeared in the series Kaynanalar in 1993-94, was a guest on Barış Manço's program in 1993 and 1996, and joined Sağıroğlu in the video for Aşk Perisi in 1996. As a child he went on with the series İlişkiler in 1997, followed by Ayşecik and Evimiz Olacak mı?. In 2012 he began a camera-acting course at the Sadri Alışık Cultural Centre. The turning point was Ötesiz İnsanlar, in which he played Lieutenant Deniz for 72 episodes between 2013 and 2015. He then played Hakan in the film Sekerat Son, Samet in Hayat Sevince Güzel, Selim in Aşk ve Gurur and Fatih in TRT1's Yalaza.

In 2018 he acted in the TV films Kız Babası and Mirasyedi and reunited with Sağıroğlu in her Açık Çay video. In 2019 he stepped into presenting with the 26-episode TRT1 program Zaman Matinesi, and took part in the documentary Kuyudaki Taş both as a guest actor and as a member of the production team; the film was named best documentary of the year at the Antakya Film Festival. In 2020 he played Anıl in Tövbeler Olsun.