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Yüksel Arıcı

Actor · 63 years old

Vehbi in the series Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz

Profile

Age	63 years old
Birth date	March 7, 1963
Birthplace	Adana
Profession	Actor
Height	1.79 m
Zodiac sign	Pisces
Eye colour	Brown
Education	Adana Boys' High School

In the rankings

#3 of 50 Celebrities from Adana with the Most TV Series

Worked most often with

Filmography / Projects

Bandits Will Not Rule the World (Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz) (translated) 2015
Hep Yek 2015 · Ziya Baba
Lost (Kayıp) (translated) 2013
Cliff (Uçurum) (translated) 2012
The Wolf Law (Kurt Kanunu) (translated) 2012
Exiled Lives (Sürgün Hayatlar) (translated) 2008
The Great Satan Triangle (Büyük Şeytan Üçgeni) (translated) 2008
Sıla 2006
The Pilgrim (Hacı) (translated) 2006
Autumn Fire (Güz Yangını) (translated) 2005
Hair to Hair, Head to Head (Saçsaça Başbaşa) (translated) 2004
Paradise Neighborhood (Cennet Mahallesi) (translated) 2004
The Songs Tell of You (Şarkılar Seni Söyler) (translated) 2003
Valley of the Wolves (Kurtlar Vadisi) 2003
My Father and Us (Babam ve Biz) (translated) 2001
My Account Isn't Settled (Hesabım Bitmedi) (translated) 1998
Relationships (İlişkiler) (translated) 1997
Liberation (Kurtuluş) (translated) 1996
False Worlds (Sahte Dünyalar) (translated) 1995
Shadow Flower (Gölge Çiçeği) (translated) 1995
Love and Pride (Aşk ve Gurur) (translated) 1995
The Carefree Ones (Kaygısızlar) (translated) 1994
Mr. Kamber (Bay Kamber) (translated) 1994
Aziz Ahmed (Aziz Ahmet) (translated) 1994
If This Is the World (Alem Buysa) (translated) 1994
Summer House (Yaz Evi) (translated) 1993
Our Regards (Saygılar Bizden) (translated) 1993
Mother (Ana) (translated) 1991

Yüksel Arıcı — Biography

Yüksel Arıcı is a stage-trained actor who has worked steadily on Turkish television for decades. He is best known as Pala in Kurtlar Vadisi, the role that brought him to a wide audience. Most recently he returned to the big screen in 2025 in Dayı: Bir Adamın Hikâyesi 2.

Born in Adana, Arıcı finished Adana Boys' High School and began his professional stage career at the Adana City Theatre in 1981. In 1987 he appeared before the camera in the film Karınca Katarı. Until 1991 he kept acting in private theatres in Adana, Ankara and Istanbul, and from the early 1990s he worked heavily in series and films. In that period he appeared in productions such as Sahte Dünyalar, Gölge Çiçeği, Kurtuluş, İlişkiler and Hesabım Bitmedi.

In the 2000s, besides Kurtlar Vadisi, he played Ahmet in Cennet Mahallesi, Mahmut in Saçsaça Başbaşa, Şahin in Hacı and Tufan in Sürgün Hayatlar, with Sıla and Güz Yangını also among his work of those years. Later he played Hasip Ağa in Kurt Kanunu and appeared in Uçurum and Kayıp. From 2015 to 2017 he played Vehbi in Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz.