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Özgür Ozan

Özgür Ozan

Actor · 60 years old

Hüsnü Çoban in the series Arka Sokaklar

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Age60
Birth dateJanuary 5, 1966
BirthplaceBolu
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signCapricorn
Eye colorBrown
EducationDokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts, Acting Department
SpouseNeslihan Uğur Ozan

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Özgür Ozan — Biography

Özgür Ozan is the actor known for playing Chief Inspector Hüsnü Çoban for years in Arka Sokaklar, one of Turkish television's longest-running police dramas, a role spanning 2006 to 2026. Before it, he was already a familiar comic face as the mildly henpecked Selami of Çocuklar Duymasın.

His route to acting ran through basketball: he played professionally until 1985, spent a short time at Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu, then studied acting at Dokuz Eylül University, working as an entertainer for pocket money as a student. He appeared with the İzmir State Theatre, İzmir Children's Theatre, the International Theatre Company, the Adana and Bursa State Theatres, and Istanbul's Pınar Children's Theatre. He entered television as the postman on Susam Sokağı, turned to comedy with Reyting Hamdi in 2002, and reached a wide audience the same year with Çocuklar Duymasın (and its follow-up Çocuklar Ne Olacak, until 2005). Arka Sokaklar, from 2006, became the center of his career, though he also appeared in Kavak Yelleri, Sonsuz and, in 2022, Aşk Taktikleri, and made guest appearances as Hüsnü Çoban in other productions.

He attended high school in Ankara. In recent months his remarks about the series' future and the filming of its season finale in Cappadocia have been in the news.

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

The easiest family pick with Özgür Ozan is Çocuklar Duymasın, a family comedy around a couple who stay together for their children, with Ozan as Selami. Dedemin Fişi is also a comedy, but its subject is an inheritance quarrel and a grandfather on life support, so it is not for small children. Arka Sokaklar is a police series with crime, best watched with older children.

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

In Özgür Ozan's career Hüsnü Çoban takes up far more room than Selami: the long life of Arka Sokaklar has tied him almost to one character, and he even enters Acemi Cadı as Komiser Hüsnü Çoban. In my view that leaves the comic side of Çocuklar Duymasın in the background; for an actor I find liveliest in comedy, the balance of a police series feels a little heavy.

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

Özgür Ozan's two main roles set two familiar Turkish types side by side: Selami in Çocuklar Duymasın, one of the fathers with little say at home, and the police officer Hüsnü Çoban in Arka Sokaklar, who carries family and work together. Both tie the ordinary man to everyday responsibility rather than heroism; in my view the worth of the career lies in how close that ordinariness stays to viewers.

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