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Turgay Tanülkü

Turgay Tanülkü

Actor · 73 years old

Şahin Ağa in the series Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz

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Age73
Birth dateJuly 18, 1953
BirthplaceUşak
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signCancer
Eye colorBrown
EducationAnkara State Conservatory, Higher Theatre Department

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Turgay Tanülkü — Biography

Turgay Tanülkü is a stage actor in the State Theatres company who has also worked in television and film for many years. Audiences know him above all as Şahin Ağa in Kurtlar Vadisi, a character he played again in Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz. Away from the stage, the theater groups he founded in prisons, juvenile institutions and schools for the blind have made his name known beyond acting.

His career started on stage: he graduated from the theater department of the Ankara State Conservatory in 1976 and joined the Ankara State Theatre the same year, appearing in plays such as Kral Lear and Fehim Paşa Konağı. He had taken a drama course in Leningrad in 1970-71 and taught acting and staging at Dokuz Eylül University in 1987-89. In 1988-89 the Ankara Semi-Open Prison players' productions of Yasalar ve İnsanlar and Misafir won him the Peace Prize of the German Green Party.

His screen career began in 1991 with Kıssadan Hisseler, followed by series such as Beşik Kertmesi, Cennet Mahallesi, Arka Sokaklar and Yalan Dünya. In film he played Cem in Fatih Akın's The Edge of Heaven and Fethi in Çakal. Later work includes Camdaki Kız, Kağıt Ev and Mehmed. Press reports have also described how he has taken in many children as his own.

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

For fast, tense work from Turgay Tanülkü, start with Şahin Ağa in Kurtlar Vadisi; the same character returns in Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz. Behzat Ç.: Bir Ankara Polisiyesi is a harder, bleaker police story, with him as Mehmet Zarlı. Karaoğlan is a film that mixes adventure and humor.

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

Put Şahin Ağa in Kurtlar Vadisi next to Urfalı Ağa in Avrupa Yakası and Turgay Tanülkü appears to be called on for a strong, local agha type on television. In my view that mold edges towards caricature in a sitcom like Avrupa Yakası, and dilutes the weight of Şahin Ağa.

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