Erkan Bektaş

Acting

Erkan Bektaş

Born

1972-03-11 (54)

Place of birth

Ankara, Turkey

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Known for

The Magnificent Century poster
8.1

At the age of 26, when his reign began, Sultan Süleyman sought to build an empire more powerful than Alexander the Great and to render the Ottomans invincible. Throughout his 46-year reign, his fame as the greatest warrior and ruler of his age spreads both to the East and West. With his companion Pargalı İbrahim, Süleyman achieves great victories, and makes his name known in the Muslim World. Süleyman called İbrahim his brother, friend and advisor. The television series shows Süleyman's consolidation of his power: Pargalı İbrahim being grand minister of state, reinforcing the rule of law throughout the empire, meeting foreign diplomats, and preparing for military campaigns, all set against the backdrop of the tension between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

The Magnificent Century

2011

The Shadow Team poster
7.4

A team of elite agents within Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation are recruited for covert operations — on the condition that the outside world believes they are dead. Led by veteran officer Mete Bey, the shadow team carries out high-stakes missions at home and abroad, battling terrorist networks and foreign threats to national security. Drawn from real events, it's Turkey's answer to the spy thriller genre — patriotic, action-packed and relentlessly tense.

The Shadow Team

2021

Valley of the Wolves poster
7.2

One of Turkey's most iconic and influential dramas, Valley of the Wolves follows Polat Alemdar, an undercover agent who infiltrates Istanbul's most dangerous crime organisation after years of preparation. Combining organised crime, covert operations and sharp political commentary, the series fearlessly tackles Turkey's shadowy relationship between the state, the mafia and power — and became a cultural phenomenon that spawned multiple films and spin-offs.

Valley of the Wolves

2003

Bitter Lands poster
7.8

The love story of Zuleyha, ​​who grew up without a father and works with Yilmaz as an auxiliary weaver in order to earn money for her brother, a gambler. The lives of these two young people blinded by the love of one ordinary night will turn into a dark nightmare. This nightmare will take them first from Istanbul and far away, and later to the estate of the Yaman family. In the first episode of the series, Yilmaz and Zuleyha set out to work on the Yaman estate. However, because of one of Zuleyha's lies - the lives of all of them will change radically.

Bitter Lands

2018

Bandits Cannot Rule The World poster
6.7

The series tells the life of Hizir Çakırbeyli. A mob boss who entered the realm of the mafia at a young age.

Bandits Cannot Rule The World

2015

Leyla and Mecnun poster
8.1

Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.

Leyla and Mecnun

2011

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Son Dilek poster
8.0

After her six-year-old daughter, Cemre, whom she raised alone, contracts a terminal illness, Deniz tries to fulfill her last wishes.

Son Dilek

2025

The Festival of Troubadours poster
5.8

An unexpected reunion between a traveling musician and his son opens old wounds as the two set out on a long journey to a troubadour festival.

The Festival of Troubadours

2022

Snow and the Bear poster
6.8

A young nurse starts a new assignment in a small isolated village in the farthest reaches of Turkey, a place that seems asleep in an endless winter. A thick layer of snow covers the souls as well as the lands. But under the snow, unspeakable secrets hibernate.

Snow and the Bear

2022

Wheat Grain poster
1.0

Inspired by the story of MP Serkan Bayram, it tells the struggle of a disabled individual.

Wheat Grain

2022

Âkif poster
5.7

Mustafa Kemal invites Mehmet Akif to Ankara for prevent the propaganda of the occupier states and to increase the participation of the people in the liberation struggle. Mehmet Akif is set out with his 13-year-old son and encounters many incidents as he moves towards Ankara. Mehmet Akif, who was deeply affected by his experiences and witnesses, tries to write the National Anthem in this process.

Âkif

2021

Hükümet Bey poster
6.0

The story of Hükümet Bey, whom Mehmet, the director, meets in Urfa while shooting the horror film he has been dreaming of making.

Hükümet Bey

2024

Ali Çevlik poster
NR

The story of former boxing champion and coach Sinan Cevahir, who wants to go to Paris, and his efforts to find a champion boxer from the club's inactive Bingöl branch, following a sudden decision by the club president.

Ali Çevlik

2022

2010s · 6 titles

All Good 2 Back To Square One poster
4.2

Salim decides to take the coffin of a deserted body to his hometown. But this journey turns into an adventure where Salih and his travel buddy Nihal fight against serial killers and bad guys. When Nihal's mom is taken hostage for revenge, things take an unplanned turn. Now they're wanted as serial killers and have to wear disguise to not get caught.

All Good 2 Back To Square One

2014

What Remains poster
3.8

While both living under demanding conditions of city life, Sevda and Zuhal’s paths intersect when Sevda’s husband Cezmi starts having an affair with Zuhal. This betrayal is life threatening for Sevda, who considers her marriage and the perfect order of daily life she created as a huge success.

What Remains

2012

God's Faithful Servant: Barla poster
5.0

Having been one of the most eminent scholars of the recent past, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Barla life.

God's Faithful Servant: Barla

2011

A Hero’s Dream poster
NR

A Hero's Dream tells the story of Tevfik and his friends, who decide to rob a bank in order to cover the medical expenses of a young child. Kerem's father, Sami, loses his life while trying to save the children during a fire that breaks out in the neighborhood. Several years after this tragic event, the news that Sami's son Kerem has leukemia shocks the neighborhood. The neighborhood takes action to raise the money needed for Kerem's recovery. However, when sufficient funds cannot be raised, Tevfik and his friends resort to robbing a bank. The young men begin planning the robbery and start surveilling the bank. When Tevfik and his friends see the bank manager, Kudret, put the vault key in his pocket, they embark on a challenging endeavor.

A Hero’s Dream

2017

Black Boy poster
5.1

The Mongols stood at the gates of Anatolia, the peaceful homeland of the Turks. The Turkish-Mongolian war is about to break out. The only way to protect against the Mongol invasion, which set the whole world on fire, is to create unity among the Turkic states. The Golden Horde also wants to join this union. The only way to realize this union is for Çise Hatun to go to the Golden Horde as a bride. The Mongols, led by Camoka, are determined to destroy Çise Hatun in order to prevent this union. Camoka's job is not so easy. In front of him is the legendary hero Karaoğlan. The journey full of excitement and danger, starting from Anatolia and extending through the Caucasus mountains, leads to a fierce war between three giant armies of tens of thousands of people. The fate of Anatolia is in the hands of Karaoğlan. The elusive beauty Bayırgülü, Asia's best sword-wielding man Baybora, the great warrior Balaban and Karaoğlan's mentor Çalık are the fateful partners of this great epic.

Black Boy

2013

Kaledeki Yalnızlık poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Kaledeki Yalnızlık

2011

Series credits

The Magnificent Century poster
8.1

At the age of 26, when his reign began, Sultan Süleyman sought to build an empire more powerful than Alexander the Great and to render the Ottomans invincible. Throughout his 46-year reign, his fame as the greatest warrior and ruler of his age spreads both to the East and West. With his companion Pargalı İbrahim, Süleyman achieves great victories, and makes his name known in the Muslim World. Süleyman called İbrahim his brother, friend and advisor. The television series shows Süleyman's consolidation of his power: Pargalı İbrahim being grand minister of state, reinforcing the rule of law throughout the empire, meeting foreign diplomats, and preparing for military campaigns, all set against the backdrop of the tension between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

The Magnificent Century

2011

The Shadow Team poster
7.4

A team of elite agents within Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation are recruited for covert operations — on the condition that the outside world believes they are dead. Led by veteran officer Mete Bey, the shadow team carries out high-stakes missions at home and abroad, battling terrorist networks and foreign threats to national security. Drawn from real events, it's Turkey's answer to the spy thriller genre — patriotic, action-packed and relentlessly tense.

The Shadow Team

2021

Valley of the Wolves poster
7.2

One of Turkey's most iconic and influential dramas, Valley of the Wolves follows Polat Alemdar, an undercover agent who infiltrates Istanbul's most dangerous crime organisation after years of preparation. Combining organised crime, covert operations and sharp political commentary, the series fearlessly tackles Turkey's shadowy relationship between the state, the mafia and power — and became a cultural phenomenon that spawned multiple films and spin-offs.

Valley of the Wolves

2003

Bitter Lands poster
7.8

The love story of Zuleyha, ​​who grew up without a father and works with Yilmaz as an auxiliary weaver in order to earn money for her brother, a gambler. The lives of these two young people blinded by the love of one ordinary night will turn into a dark nightmare. This nightmare will take them first from Istanbul and far away, and later to the estate of the Yaman family. In the first episode of the series, Yilmaz and Zuleyha set out to work on the Yaman estate. However, because of one of Zuleyha's lies - the lives of all of them will change radically.

Bitter Lands

2018

Bandits Cannot Rule The World poster
6.7

The series tells the life of Hizir Çakırbeyli. A mob boss who entered the realm of the mafia at a young age.

Bandits Cannot Rule The World

2015

Leyla and Mecnun poster
8.1

Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.

Leyla and Mecnun

2011

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları poster
5.4

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları, is a Turkish comedy drama TV series. Turkish version of Desperate Housewives, is a Turkish television series.

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları

2011

People's Lives poster
5.5

With its story full of love, ambition, and intrigue, the series, which is set to break the mold in the new season, focuses on the dangerous test faced by a young woman who envies the lives of others.

People's Lives

2026

Ihlamurlar Altinda poster
9.1

No synopsis available yet.

Ihlamurlar Altinda

2005

Böyle Bitmesin poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Böyle Bitmesin

2012

Love and Punishment poster
6.7

Aşk ve Ceza is a Turkish television drama series that aired in 2010-2011. Nunu Yeşilçay, Murat Yildirim and Feride Çetin starring, the series were shot in Van, Bodrum and Istanbul. In 2011, this series were broadcast also in Croatia in Nova TV. In Serbia, this series is airing from January 8, 2013 in 1PRVA. In Georgia TV Maestro started broadcasting this series on 15 April 2013.

Love and Punishment

2010

Love and Punishment poster
6.7

Aşk ve Ceza is a Turkish television drama series that aired in 2010-2011. Nunu Yeşilçay, Murat Yildirim and Feride Çetin starring, the series were shot in Van, Bodrum and Istanbul. In 2011, this series were broadcast also in Croatia in Nova TV. In Serbia, this series is airing from January 8, 2013 in 1PRVA. In Georgia TV Maestro started broadcasting this series on 15 April 2013.

Love and Punishment

2010

Safir poster
5.3

Gülsoys, one of the leading families of Cappadocia, came together after Ateş returned from America. Ateş did not bow to the overwhelming authority of his grandfather Ömer and left the house. After many years, at the request of his mother Gülfem, he returned to his home with his brothers Yaman and Okan to take over and expand the family business from his grandfather. Now is the time to unite for Ateş, Yaman and Okan. After his brother's return, Yaman decides to propose to his lover Feraye. When Yaman was a child, he secretly bought the family heirloom Sapphire ring from his mother and proposed to Feraye. While Feraye and Yaman are counting the days to get married, confessing their great love by risking everything, a tragedy upsets all the balances. Feraye and Yaman are about to get lost on dangerous roads full of love, passion, revenge and tyranny. Ateş will both win new enemies and confront his brothers with the radical decisions he takes to protect everyone he loves and his family.

Safir

2023

Legend of the Black Tree poster
1.0

Celal Aga, who covets all the lands in his region, seizes the lands of all the aghas and has his last rival Osman Aga killed. Osman Aga's wife Raziye gives birth to a son that night. To protect her son from the wrath of Celal Aga, who has another daughter, she gives him to Celal Aga's wife Asiye through Naile Kadın. Ömer is now the son of Celal Aga, the murderer of his father. The daughter born to Celal Aga's wife Asiye is a secret. Years pass and Ömer grows up as Celal Aga's son. Sultan returns to the town claiming to be Osman Aga's daughter and seeks revenge. Fate reunites two people born on the same night.

Legend of the Black Tree

2024

Gülperi poster
6.8

Gülperi's world collapses after her husband's sudden death. Forced to live with hostile in-laws who turn her own children against her, she ends up imprisoned after defending herself against assault. Released and alone, she flees to Istanbul where a lawyer from her past helps her fight to reclaim her children — and perhaps find love again.

Gülperi

2018

Benim İçin Üzülme poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Benim İçin Üzülme

2012

Wolf poster
7.1

Tasked with risky missions across Turkey, members of a special-operations police unit confront danger and tragedy both on the field and at home.

Wolf

2018

Altın Koza poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Altın Koza

1969

Akıncı poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Akıncı

2021

Serçe Sarayı poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Serçe Sarayı

2015

Sipahi poster
7.3

Korkut Ali Türkoğlu (Kaan Yıldırım), the most talented agent trained by the National Intelligence Organization in the recent period, reaches important information about the plans made about Turkey after an operation full of action and intelligence. In line with this information, Yıldırım Zafer Bozok (Kerem Alışık), who was withdrawn from the field and whose successful operations in the past was taught as a course at the MIT School, is recalled to duty. There are surprises in the operation carried out by Korkut Ali and Yıldırım with a talented team. Fate brings together the counter-terrorism commissioner Canan (Özge Gürel) and Korkut Ali in the country after abroad, and the duo's business gets very difficult.

Sipahi

2022

Yasak poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yasak

2014

Black Snake poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Black Snake

2007

Tek Başımıza poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tek Başımıza

2011

Ağır Roman: Yeni Dünya poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ağır Roman: Yeni Dünya

2012

Kül ve Ateş poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kül ve Ateş

2009