Kadir Doğulu

Kadir Doğulu — Biography

Kadir Doğulu is an actor and model who has become one of the familiar male faces of Turkish television through leading and near-leading roles in very different series. The part that brought him to a wide audience was Macit Arcaoğlu in Fatih Harbiye, adapted from the novel of the same name by Peyami Safa. One of his recent leading roles is Kazım Işık in Gecenin Ucunda.

Born Abdulkadir in Mersin, he worked as a cook and an operator in various places during his school years, then moved to Istanbul in 2000 to enrol in the gastronomy department of Okan University. He appeared in the Romeo music video of Hande Yener, whose stylist was his brother Kemal Doğulu, and acting offers began to arrive; he froze his university enrollment because of them. His first major job came in 2010 with Küçük Sırlar, the Turkish adaptation of Gossip Girl, in which he played Ali Erarslan. He then played Güney Samyeli in the youth series Pis Yedili but left the show. In 2013 Fatih Harbiye made his rise.

In 2015 he played Gökhan in Sevdam Alabora and, from November, Mehmed Giray Han in Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem. He was Alper Eren in Bana Sevmeyi Anlat, Aziz Korkmazer in Vuslat and Fırat Karasu in Aşkın Tarifi, and he also appeared in Babamın Günahları. He married Neslihan Atagül, whom he had met on the set of Fatih Harbiye, on July 8, 2016; the couple had a son in 2025.