
Acting
Turgay Tanülkü
Born 1953-07-18 · Uşak, Türkiye
1953 Uşak'ta doğdu, Ankara devlet konservatuvarı tiyatro yüksek bölümünden 1976'da mezun oldu. Aynı yıl Ankara Devlet Tiyatrosu'nda göreve başladı. 1970-71 döneminde Leningrad'da Tiyatro akademisi'nin drama kurslarına katıldı ve Psikojimnastik eğitimi aldı. Turgay Tanülkü körler okulu, Çocuk islahevleri ve Türkiye'de 8 Bölge Cezaevinde Tiyatro grupları kurdu. Halen kurduğu gruplarla çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Tanülkü 1987-89 yılları arasında Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sahne ve Görüntü Sanatları Tiyatro Anasanat Dalı Oyunculuk bölümü]]'nde Rol ve Sahne dersleri verdi. Sanatçı 1984'te Konya'da Uluslararası Reji ödülü aldı. Ankara Yarı Açık Cezaevi Oyuncuları'nın oynadığı Yasalar ve İnsanlar, Misafir adlı oyunlarla Almanya Yeşiller Partisi barış ödülünü Reji dalında, 1988-89 döneminde aldı. Ayrıca meslek hayatı boyunca birçok Sinema, Televizyon ve Seslendirme çalışmalarıda yapmıştır. Halen Devlet Tiyatroları Sanatçı kadrosunda yer almaktadır.
Acting credits
5.3Two friends originally from Izmir-Eşrefpaşa have settled in Istanbul… While Tayyar (Hüseyin Soysalan) has become a mafia leader based on his passion for power and ruling, Davut (Turgay Tanülkü) has been managing a café in his small neighbourhood. Both have loved the same woman, Madam Eleni (Sermin Hürmeriç). But she had to get married to Tayyar despite her love for Davut. She also had a daughter called Duygu (Deniz Özpınar). However, Tayyar, knowing that Eleni’s heart belongs to Davut, leaves Eleni and his daughter alone. Tayyar, continuously looking for ways for revenge, finally finds it in convincing Nusret (Burak Tarık), Davut’s adopted son, to choose his dirty way. Nusret, the tough-guy of the neighbourhood gets into a big dilemma since he couldn’t make a choice between his girl as well as the people he loves and money and power.
Eşrefpaşalılar
2010
8.0In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood.
Paper Lives
2021
5.5Mother Elif is known to be philanthropic and wise. She shares deep spiritual values such as love, peace, equality, sharing, tolerance, and compassion with all life she comes into contact with. This film shows her eventful life.
Mother Elif
2022
NRIn the early 1980s, Abdullah Catli becomes entangled in an international conflict spanning several European countries. As Europe turns into a stage for covert confrontations, Catli is increasingly faced with existential decisions. Caught between loyalty, responsibility, and the protection of his family, an intense drama unfolds about guilt, loss, and survival.
Çatlı
2026
7.7Cemal comes to Istanbul from a small Kurdish town after finishing high-school to pursue higher education. He feels isolated and out of place in the crowded city and soon meets a group Kurdish students who are against the repressive Turkish political system.
The Storm
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
D
2010
NRMurat, who lives in Istanbul, decides to return to his hometown of Cappadocia after being fired from his job. As he plans to start a new business there, his path crosses with his cousins Bedri and Fehmi, who are trying to escape the consequences of a crime they committed. However, the carefree spirit wandering around the town will both prevent Bedri and Fehmi from escaping and support Murat in establishing his new venture.
Carefree Head
2026
7.2On the border of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Greek village of Limya lies the frontier hamlet of Akıncılar, where the call to prayer mingles with church bells and Turkish music blends with Greek melodies, and people from Diyarbakır and Cyprus live side by side. In this village there are three children, each thirteen years old, bound together by fate and traveling a shared path. Their story unfolds amid a ritual that becomes ever more tangled: the drama of “child brides.”
Halam Geldi
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
King of the Cotton
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
8 (Sekiz)
2021
NRMenderes is living with his bedridden brother called Adnan in Kirazli, Kusadasi. Menderes commits his life to look after his brother. The real estate dealer Resit is a very sly man who is trying to convince Menderes for selling his family home and finding a nursing home for his brother.
Point of Conscience
2018
7.2The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
The Edge of Heaven
2007
5.9A young and successful entrepreneur has difficulty in coming to terms with his religious upbringing. One day he is pushed into substitute for his ailing friend as the Imam of a small village.
The İmam
2005
4.5Sahin K., who wants to leave his fame, wealth, but unhappy life in Germany behind and live a simple and normal life, decides to live in Bodrum. As he struggles to reunite with his son Caner, whom he lost because of his notoriety, he becomes a folk hero who will solve the town's problems. His unrelenting fame will drag him into different adventures.
Scapegoat
2011
NRHalit is an old retired man, who lives in a small village in Turkey. His life is planned around his phone calls with his son every Thursday who is making the military service.
8 Months
2013
NRMuhammet Arslan is the director of Kanlı Postal, which brings the events that took place in Diyarbakır Prison on September 12 to the big screen. The script, which was written after interviewing prisoners who were subjected to torture during that period, uses the real names of the characters. The film, which focuses on the prisoners tortured by "Captain Esat" while serving at Diyarbakır Prison, stars Mesut Akusta, Turgay Tanülkü, Nevin Efe, and Mihriban Er in the lead roles. Muhammet Arslan, who began filming in 2012, also serves as the screenwriter for the same film.
Kanlı Postal
2015
3.9Cem and Ali, two buddies, find themselves in the middle of a mafia showdown at a party where they are DJing. Not knowing what to do, the pair try to escape by putting on women's clothes they find in the costume room. But a perverted member of the mafia takes them to a resort and holds them captive, and the pair suddenly find themselves working as entertainers at a hotel. During their first attempt to escape the hotel, they see 20 girls who have come to the hotel for a beauty pageant and are stunned. They don't want to leave this paradise-like environment. But flirting with girls and living as women is difficult. Even when they try to escape from the hotel a second time, the duo, who have fallen in love with Cansu and Ebru from the TV crew, stay at the hotel. Meanwhile, the mafia also arrives at the hotel.
Plajda
2008
9.0Bahar, who works as a factory worker and has just turned 18, has completely different dreams for her future, but her family has already decided her fate. Caught between a silent mother, a retired father who seeks happiness elsewhere, and an unemployed older brother, Bahar searches for salvation in a world she knows very little about. Her uncle, meanwhile, is waiting for Bahar to reach legal adulthood so he can marry her off to his own son. After a tragic incident forces Bahar to flee her home, her fate has already been sealed.
Gelmeyen Bahar
2013
NRThe story of Orhan Usta, an auto mechanic with a mysterious past, and his family on the verge of falling apart, who lose everything in order to protect a "trust" that does not belong to them, but find each other again during a 24-hour period.
Emanet
2024
5.7Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being prepared to commit a brutal crime.
Riza
2007
4.0Tells the funny events that is experienced 30 years later by a group that became friends in high school in the 1990s.
C Takımı
2024
5.0While Semra and President Ahi are reading their local newspapers at the Boğaz Körler Derneği (Boğaz Blind Association), an interesting development takes place that will change their lives. The ministry has sent a fax announcing its intention to participate in the Chinese Paralympics. This fax causes quite a stir among the association members. While jokes about choosing sports like oil wrestling and weightlifting continue, Zeki, who has grown up with the help of the association members, utters the word "football" with the desire to be like the sighted children constantly running around with a ball, which seriousness the topic. The proposal is "Rattling Ball," or in other words, a football team for the blind.
Çıngıraklı Top
2009
5.0The film focuses on events surrounding the sacred map, which is in the possession of the Devoted. The Devoted is a group formed to protect an important secret that fell into Turkish hands after the conquest of Istanbul. The Devoted, who are willing to risk everything to protect the secret, engage in a difficult struggle against the dark forces trying to seize it.
Adanis: Kutsal Kavga
2022
6.0A group of Greek solders, who serve their military service in Kos, is sent to guard the skerry of Pitta. Everything looked normal until a Turkish boat disembarks 4 castaways on Pitta.
Sirens in the Aegean
2005