Turhan Kaya

Turhan Kaya — Biography

Turhan Kaya was an actor best remembered for the Ordinaryüs character in the series Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu (Valley of the Wolves: Ambush), the best-known stop on a path that ran from the stage to television. He worked in theatre, film and television, and played his last role in 2019 as Cengiz Erkmen in Halka, broadcast on TRT 1.

A graduate of the Yeditepe University School of Communication, Kaya also took private acting training in England and Italy. He began his career on the theatre stage in the early 1980s and later moved mainly to television. On screen he appeared in productions such as Kurşun Yarası, Çemberimde Gül Oya, Binbir Gece, Doktorlar, Bıçak Sırtı, Tatlı Bela Fadime, Melekler Korusun and Bu Kalp Seni Unutur mu?, and Arka Sokaklar (Back Streets) and Şahsiyet (Persona) are also part of his television record. In cinema he appeared in Üç Kuruş and played the police commissioner in the 2014 film Ayhan Hanım.

Kaya died on 31 March 2020, aged 68 in Kadıköy, Istanbul. He was buried the next day at the Baklacı Cemetery in Beykoz. Reports of his death widely called him "the Ordinaryüs of Kurtlar Vadisi", a role closely tied to his name for television viewers.