Orhan Edip Ertürk

Orhan Edip Ertürk — Biography

Tilki Andrei in the Valley of the Wolves franchise and Colonel Fikret in the series Şefkat Tepe are the roles Turkish actor Orhan Edip Ertürk is best known for. A graduate of the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, he chose the stage and the camera instead, working across theatre, film and television. Originally from Ankara, he also appeared in later seasons of Valley of the Wolves: Ambush.

Although he studied medicine in Istanbul, his career began in 1988 with a commercial. His first notable television work was Varsayalım İsmail, broadcast in 1991; he followed it with Boşgezen ve Kalfası in the mid-1990s and joined the series Aşkına Eşkıya in 2001. The period that began with the first season of Valley of the Wolves in 2003 became the turning point of his career. In the following years he took roles in productions such as Pardon, Doktorlar, Komiser Nevzat, Gece Gündüz, Adanalı and Şefkat Tepe, and appeared in the films Divanyolu: Bir Medeniyet Rüyası and Aziz Ayşe.

On stage he appeared in Seyircili Seyir Defteri at Ortaoyuncular and in Üç Kuruşluk Opera at the Istanbul State Theatre. At the same institution he took part in Bana Bir Şeyhler Oluyor and Daha Çok Şey Olacak, at the Dormen Theatre in Bozacının Şahidi Şıracı, and at the Gaziantep State Theatre in Hırsızlar. Among his later credits is the second season of Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz in 2016.