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Feyyaz Duman
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Feyyaz Duman

Actor · 44 years old

Tarık Dirlik in the series Altı Üstü İstanbul

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Age44
Birth dateJune 15, 1982
BirthplaceMardin
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signGemini
Eye colorBrown
EducationIstanbul Technical University State Conservatory, Folk Dance Department

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Feyyaz Duman — Biography

Feyyaz Duman, a Kurdish-Turkish actor, was born in Mardin on June 15, 1982; he graduated in folk dance from the State Conservatory of İstanbul Technical University, then spent five years training as an actor in New York before settling back in Turkey. His screen work opened with the 2001 feature Fotoğraf and continued through Azad, Tatlı Biber Diyarım, Mardan, Zagros and Never Leave Me. For Song of My Mother he was named best actor at three separate festivals: Golden Orange, Sarajevo and Duhok. Television brought him into view in 2016 through İçerde, and wide popularity followed once he took on Arif in the Fox drama Kadın; he married Zozan Şimşek in 2019. His later credits include the series Baraj, Yalancılar ve Mumları, Oğlum and Adım Farah. A 2026 role in the atv drama Altı Üstü İstanbul coincided with his part in Emin Alper's Kurtuluş, a contender for the Golden Bear at that year's Berlin Film Festival.

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

Feyyaz Duman's cinema is largely built across borders. He works twice with Hiner Saleem, the Kurdish-born director based in France: as Jaffar in Tatlı Biber Diyarım, set in a remote region where Iran, Turkey and Iraq meet around the fall of Saddam Hussein, and as Azad in If You Die, I'll Kill You, set in Paris and spoken in French and Kurdish. The Belgian production Zagros gives him the title role, in a film shot in Kurdish and Dutch that tests his acting between languages and places. This map of co-productions makes him an actor that viewers who know him from series barely know; the first film to see is Zagros.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Feyyaz Duman's roles in Turkish co-produced films trace a line of displacement and return. In Annemin Şarkısı, Erol Mintaş's first feature, he is Ali, in the story of a family forced to leave its village in the east in the 1990s and resettle in Istanbul; shot in Tarlabaşı and Esenyurt, the film follows a generation sheltering at the city's edge. In Emin Alper's Kurtuluş he plays Ferit in a remote mountain village where an old land feud flares up again when a clan returns from years of exile. One film about moving to the city, the other about going back to the village, they show the same region's two-way wound through the same actor.

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

Feyyaz Duman's series are mostly adaptations, and in most of them the story turns around a woman. In Kadın, adapted from a Japanese drama, Arif belongs to the world of Bahar, raising her two children alone; in Adım Farah, adapted from the Argentine La Chica que Limpia, Behnam has a place in the story of Farah, who fled her country for shelter in Istanbul. What these parts ask of him is to make room for the woman at the center. Baraj is different: in this adaptation of a 1977 film, Nazım is the story itself, which begins when he meets Nehir online. To see Duman carry the weight of a series, Baraj is the right place.

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