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Yıldıray Şahinler

Yıldıray Şahinler

Actor · 58 years old

Davut in the series Teşkilat

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Age58
Birth dateFebruary 7, 1968
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signAquarius
Eye colorGreen
EducationActing training

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Yıldıray Şahinler — Biography

Yıldıray Şahinler is an actor whose career runs from the stage of the Istanbul City Theatres to character parts on television and in film. Wide audiences know him as Alyanak Hasan in İçerde and as Hafız in 7. Koğuştaki Mucize. He is also a translator, director, writer and diving instructor; in 2026 he played Davut in Teşkilat and left the series at the end of the season.

After Suadiye High School he graduated from the theater department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory and joined the City Theatres in 1986. His first awards came young, for roles in İlk Gençliğim and Çıkmaz Sokak Çocukları. In 2004 his performance in Tiyatrokare's Salı Ziyaretleri won best actor at both the Afife and the Sadri Alışık awards. He also built his own stage work: he translated and directed Dejan Dukovski's Barut Fıçısı, co-founded the Istanbul Halk Tiyatrosu with a group of colleagues in late 2006, and staged his own play İhtiyar Balıkçı ve Deniz in 2014.

His screen career began in 1989 with Ayaşlı ve Kiracıları. In 1998 he played Ali in Gemide and its sequel Laleli'de Bir Azize. After series such as Elveda Rumeli, Avrupa Yakası and Kayıp, İçerde (2016) became the turning point. Ufak Tefek Cinayetler, Ferhat ile Şirin, Akıncı, Kuruluş Osman (as Rogatus) and, in 2025, Aşk ve Gözyaşı (as Yusuf Naci) followed. He has also worked as a diving instructor since 1996.

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Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

If you meet Yıldıray Şahinler through one series, make it İçerde: Alyanak Hasan sits inside a double game between police and mafia in Istanbul, over episodes of 140 minutes, and it is a supporting part that gets proper room. For a calmer pace, Elveda Rumeli shows his period-drama side, in a wide ensemble set in a town in Rumelia.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Kuruluş Osman ran for 194 episodes and Teşkilat is another long-running series. In these two giant productions, as Rogatus in Kuruluş Osman, Yıldıray Şahinler mostly plays figures lined up against or beside the lead team. The pace and the stakes stay with the main cast, and a side figure gets little room for a story of his own at that scale.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları was a six-episode TRT literary adaptation in 1989; Yıldıray Şahinler's screen path runs from there to the 190-episode sitcom world of Avrupa Yakası and on to the tension of İçerde. That variety makes him a character actor who fits no single mold and finds a place in every tone.

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