Özlem Çınar

Özlem Çınar — Biography

Özlem Çınar is a stage and television actress best known for playing Aylin Aydın in Kanal D's police drama Arka Sokaklar, which began in 2006, until 2025. The series is one of the longest-running in Turkish television history; her departure was announced in March 2025, she said farewell to the commissioner in April 2025, and she returned to the screen in 2026 in the film KUL Dilemma.

Çınar finished primary school in Istanbul's Avcılar district, graduated from the Tourism and Hotel Management vocational school of Trakya University, and then trained in acting at Şahika Tekand Studio Actors. On stage she worked with Semaver Kumpanya in Kuşlar Meclisi (2002), with Yeni Drama Tiyatrosu in Leş (2011), and at Tiyatro Tek Ağaç in Taş (2014), a play by Marius von Mayenburg.

On television in the early 2000s she appeared in productions such as Herkes Kendi Evinde, Gülbeyaz, Yarım Elma, Hürrem Sultan, Aliye, Hayalet and Kurtlar Vadisi. From 2006 she became a fixture of the Arka Sokaklar cast, and during those years she also acted in the films Migale (2011), Vezir Parmağı (2017) and İşe Yarar Bir Şey (2017) and in the 2018 series İkizler Memo-Can; her credits also include the 2005 short film Ne Gezer Aşk Dağlarda.