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Erdal Beşikçioğlu
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Erdal Beşikçioğlu

Actor · 56 years old

Mayor of Etimesgut

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Age56
Birth dateJanuary 5, 1970
BirthplaceAnkara
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signCapricorn
Eye colorBrown
EducationHacettepe University State Conservatory
SpouseElvin Beşikçioğlu

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Erdal Beşikçioğlu — Biography

Erdal Beşikçioğlu was born on January 5, 1970, in Ankara to a father of Laz descent and a mother from an Albanian family that had migrated from Priştine; he is a nephew of former Gençlerbirliği chairman İlhan Cavcav. After secondary school in İzmir, he entered the Hacettepe University State Conservatory in 1989, graduated in 1993 and immediately joined the State Theatres, later serving as acting director of the Diyarbakır State Theatre in 1995-96 and retiring from the Ankara State Theatre in 2015.

He drew attention on screen as Governor Faruk Yazıcı in the series Köprü (2006-2008), and won wider fame with the title role in Behzat Ç.: Bir Ankara Polisiyesi, which began in 2010; he carried the character into the films Seni Kalbime Gömdüm (2011, for which he won the Golden Orange for Best Actor), Ankara Yanıyor (2013) and Çekiç ve Gül (2022). He appeared in the Golden Bear-winning film Bal (2010), in Barda and Hayat Var, and as Halis Serbest in Bergen (2022), as well as in the series 46 Yok Olan and Adı Efsane. In January 2024 he became the Republican People's Party candidate for mayor of Etimesgut and was elected that March; detained on July 30, 2026, in a corruption investigation, he was arrested in early August and suspended from office by the Interior Ministry, and he denies the charges.

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

For a quick way into Erdal Beşikçioğlu, start with Behzat Ç.: Bir Ankara Polisiyesi, a hard, bleak Ankara murder series. Seni Kalbime Gömdüm follows a serial killer who buries his victims in pits, with the same cast. Barda is a horror-thriller about young friends taken hostage in a bar, and he is in its cast.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Erdal Beşikçioğlu's two series leads are opposites. In Köprü, Governor Faruk Yazıcı, who drives a bridge project, stands for public duty; Behzat Ç. is a chief who heeds neither his superiors nor, at times, the law, only his conscience. That he makes both convincing is, in my view, the real breadth of his career.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Behzat Ç. both frames and confines Erdal Beşikçioğlu's career: the series, Seni Kalbime Gömdüm, Ankara Yanıyor, Çekiç ve Gül and even the parodic appearance in Leyla ile Mecnun keep circulating the same character. That Ankara Yanıyor opens without Behzat and spreads into an assassination file suggests the television formula did not sit fully on the big screen. For work away from the character, look to films by other directors such as Bal and Hayat Var.

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