Ali Buhara Mete

Ali Buhara Mete — Biography

Ali Buhara Mete was born on 20 February 1983 in Istanbul, the son of the late Ömer Lütfi Mete, screenwriter of the Kurtlar Vadisi series. He began acting in 1995 in the TGRT series Ortaklar and later graduated from the Department of Political Science at Istanbul Bilgi University. He joined the treatment team of Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu before moving in front of the camera as Akif, head of the Public Security Organization in the same series, a role he played from the seventh to the ninth season before the character was killed off in the first episode of the tenth.

In 2016 he both starred in and wrote the screenplay for the film Posta Kutusu, which won Best Screenplay at the 10th Kosovo Film Festival. In 2017 he took the lead role in the film Yarım Kalan and played the character Mete in the series Sevda Kuşun Kanadında; in 2018 he played Sultan Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev in Direniş: Karatay. Around the same period he appeared as Eynece in the series Diriliş: Ertuğrul. He played the revolutionary Nihat Aslan in the film Şuursuz Aşk, released in December 2019, and later took the role of Manyasizade Refik Bey in the final season of Payitaht Abdülhamid.

Interested in music since a young age, Mete released his debut single, "Yazı," on the DMC label in January 2020. He has also written the screenplay for the series Benim Hayatım, played an Armenian lawyer, James Lindsey, in the tabii digital series Biltmore Oteli Cinayeti, and appeared in the series Metamorfoz, as well as in the 2024 film Yeniden Başlamak.