Emre Törün

Emre Törün — Biography

Emre Alp Törün was a Turkish actor and voice actor, born in Istanbul on 11 March 1972. After training as an actor he began working in 1995, and one of his first notable screen jobs was Kara Melek in 1996. Across a career of nearly thirty years he combined on-camera roles with dubbing and voice work.

In the 2000s he appeared in many productions, among them Ona Bakma Bana Bak, Çocuklar Duymasın, Hayat A.Ş., Koçum Benim, Büyük Umutlar as Cevat, Beşinci Boyut and Arka Sokaklar as Ayhan, and on film in Keri and İnşaat 2. Later came Bulutların Ötesinde, Güneşi Beklerken and a prosecutor's role in Kod Adı Reaksiyon. His best-known part was Nevzat Çankırı in atv's long-running Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz, which he played from 2015 to 2017.

In his final years he leaned towards historical drama, playing Makarios III in Bir Zamanlar Kıbrıs, Colonel Neşet in Mahsusa: Trablusgarb and Dathan in Ahit: Musa'nın Hikâyesi, as well as Adnan in Üç Kız Kardeş and, in 2024, Şeref in Hudutsuz Sevda. Undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer, he died at his home in Akçay, in Balıkesir's Edremit district, on 15 July 2025, aged 53, and was buried in Karacaahmet Cemetery.