Erkan Bektaş

Erkan Bektaş — Biography

Erkan Bektaş (born March 11, 1972, in Ankara) is a Turkish theatre, film and television actor as well as a voice artist. A graduate of the Acting Department of the Faculty of Language and History-Geography at Ankara University, he performed with various private theatre companies before founding his own stage, Tiyatro Baykuş, in 2010.

He became widely known as Salih in the series Ihlamurlar Altında (2005) and went on to take character roles in series such as Leyla ile Mecnun (2011), Muhteşem Yüzyıl (2011), Umutsuz Ev Kadınları (2013) and Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz (2015); in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova (2018) he portrayed Abdülkadir Keskin. On the big screen he appeared in films including Bornova Bornova (2009), Geriye Kalan (2011), Aşıklar Bayramı (2022), Kar ve Ayı (2022) and Hükümet Bey (2024). More recently he acted in the series Sipahi (2022) and Safir (2023), joining the cast of Siyah Kalp in 2025.