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Şevket Çoruh
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Şevket Çoruh

Actor · 53 years old

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Age53
Birth dateJune 30, 1973
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signCancer
Eye colorBrown
EducationMüjdat Gezen Art Centre
TheaterBaba Sahne (founder)

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Şevket Çoruh — Biography

Şevket Çoruh is an actor equally at home on Turkish television and on the stage. His name is most closely tied to Commissioner Mesut Güneri in Kanal D's long-running police series Arka Sokaklar, and as Gökhan in the Çakallarla Dans film series he became a familiar face of Turkish screen comedy. In 2026 he personally announced that the series was ending.

He began performing on stage in 1989 and drew wide attention with a "Kokoreççi" (offal-grill cook) character in an internet company's advertisement. His first screen credit was Çiçek Taksi in 1995; in 1997 he co-hosted the program Şaka Yaptık, and he went on to appear in Yılan Hikayesi, Sultan Makamı and Anlat İstanbul. In cinema he stood out in İnşaat, Eğreti Gelin and Usta. He joined the cast of Arka Sokaklar in 2006, left in 2022 and later returned. In the same years he also played in Aile Arasında, Korkma Ben Yanındayım and Sıcak Kafa.

His theater work is just as prominent: he staged the one-man comedy Caveman in Turkey and in 2017 opened his own theater, Baba Sahne, in Kadıköy. The Hamlet adaptation Bir Baba Hamlet, staged there, earned him awards from Tiyatro Dergisi and at the Afife Jale Awards. In 2020 Rasim Öztekin handed over the traditional tuluat kavuk to him. He trained at the Müjdat Gezen Art Center.

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

From the first Çakallarla Dans in 2010 to the fifth in 2018, Şevket Çoruh carries Kayınço Gökhan. In a comedy series that continuity gives a familiar face, but in my view it sets up an arrangement with little room for a new direction: in the fourth film the same four friends are on a treasure hunt. Where the part goes across five films is a question the series does not answer.

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Sudi in İnşaat, Recep in Anlat İstanbul: Şevket Çoruh's comic face serves another purpose in İnşaat, which laughs at society's dead ends, and in Anlat İstanbul, which moves fairy tales to the unseen, grubby side of Istanbul. In my view these two films show he is not only someone who makes a crowd laugh, but can sit inside the city's hard realities.

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