Tekin Kurtuluş

Tekin Kurtuluş — Biography

Tekin Kurtuluş is a German actor and singer of Turkish descent. He grew up in Salzgitter as the son of a family that went to Germany to work in 1963; his birthplace is given as Uşak in some sources and as Salzgitter in others. A citizen of both Turkey and Germany, he is the elder brother of the actor Mehmet Kurtuluş.

He built his career mainly on screen, in German television. In the Sat.1 police series Lenßen & Partner he played a detective named Tekin in 2003, and in SOKO Leipzig he played the character Erdogan Cimsir in 2008. Besides acting he is also a singer, and he has worked in both film and television, in German and Turkish productions.