Erhan Ufak

Erhan Ufak — Biography

Erhan Ufak is an actor best known for playing Güllü Erhan in the Kurtlar Vadisi (Valley of the Wolves) universe, one of the most-watched productions in Turkish television and cinema. Güllü Erhan became fixed in viewers' memory as the right-hand man of the story's central figure, Polat Alemdar. Ufak has since settled in Azerbaijan after his acting career and gives acting lessons there.

His career has been almost entirely tied to this franchise. He first appeared in the original Kurtlar Vadisi series, which aired from 2003 to 2005, and reached the big screen with Kurtlar Vadisi Irak (2006). In 2007 he took part in two episodes of Kurtlar Vadisi Terör, and in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu, the 300-episode series that began that year and ran until 2016, he played Güllü Erhan for years. He was also in the cast of the film Kurtlar Vadisi Vatan (2017), which brought the series back to cinema. In these productions he worked with figures such as Necati Şaşmaz, Serdar Akar and Gürkan Uygun.

Outside Kurtlar Vadisi he also took roles in productions such as Zehirli Tohumlar: Ölüm Yolu and Nisan. His move away from the screen and abroad drew wide coverage in the Turkish press in early 2026; in Azerbaijan he founded the Türk Sanat Akademisi (Turkish Art Academy), where he teaches acting. Some sources give his birth year as 1978.