Personal Info
Birth date
1953-07-18 (71 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Uşak, Türkiye
Also known as
-Turgay Tanülkü
Biography
1953 Uşak'ta doğdu, Ankara devlet konservatuvarı tiyatro yüksek bölümünden 1976'da mezun oldu. Aynı yıl Ankara Devlet Tiyatrosu'nda göreve başladı. 1970-71 döneminde Leningrad'da Tiyatro akademisi'nin drama kurslarına katıldı ve Psikojimnastik eğitimi aldı. Turgay Tanülkü körler okulu, Çocuk islahevleri ve Türkiye'de 8 Bölge Cezaevinde Tiyatro grupları kurdu. Halen kurduğu gruplarla çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Tanülkü 1987-89 yılları arasında Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sahne ve Görüntü Sanatları Tiyatro Anasanat Dalı Oyunculuk bölümü]]'nde Rol ve Sahne dersleri verdi. Sanatçı 1984'te Konya'da Uluslararası Reji ödülü aldı. Ankara Yarı Açık Cezaevi Oyuncuları'nın oynadığı Yasalar ve İnsanlar, Misafir adlı oyunlarla Almanya Yeşiller Partisi barış ödülünü Reji dalında, 1988-89 döneminde aldı. Ayrıca meslek hayatı boyunca birçok Sinema, Televizyon ve Seslendirme çalışmalarıda yapmıştır. Halen Devlet Tiyatroları Sanatçı kadrosunda yer almaktadır.
Filmography
Behzat Ç.: An Ankara Policeman
7.8
Overview:
Centered around a personally troubled, officially discredited police chief and his inharmonious police team in Ankara Police Force. Even though the show usually focuses on murders and other crimes that happens on a weekly basis, the undertone of the story leads to an eventual duel between Behzat Ç. and the rotten department officials and bureaucrats.The Bitter Life
6.7
Overview:
A story of love lost to poverty. Life stopped during the airtime of the series. Mehmet and Nermin are desperately in love with each other.The Valley of The Wolves
7.2
Overview:
Valley of the Wolves was a Turkish television drama which broadcast mainly on Show TV and then transferred to Kanal D, then atv for its last season. It was mostly about an agent named Polat Alemdar who leaked into the mafia after his plastic surgery. The scenario has direct and indirect references to the Turkish politics and political history from a viewpoint of an undercover agent. Valley of the Wolves became one of the most successful TV shows in Turkey and produced a successful feature film named Valley of the Wolves: Iraq.The European Side
7.5
Overview:
The life and times of rather traditional Sutcuoglu family and their comedic struggles to adapt the high-profile contemporary life of Nisantasi.
The Devil's in the Details
8
Overview:
The adventures of Captain Nevzat and his assistant Ali. The series that have been adapted from Ahmet Umit's stories.
Day Zero
7.5
Overview:
Seven special ops cops and their leader chase the organized crime leader Ejder. Their lives are permanently altered when they inevitably get closer to him.
Love and Punishment
6.7
Overview:
Aşk ve Ceza is a Turkish television drama series that aired in 2010-2011. Nunu Yeşilçay, Murat Yildirim and Feride Çetin starring, the series were shot in Van, Bodrum and Istanbul. In 2011, this series were broadcast also in Croatia in Nova TV. In Serbia, this series is airing from January 8, 2013 in 1PRVA. In Georgia TV Maestro started broadcasting this series on 15 April 2013.
Paper Lives
8.035
Overview:
In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood.
The Edge of Heaven
7.2
Overview:
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
Adanis: Kutsal Kavga
5
Overview:
The film focuses on events surrounding the sacred map, which is in the possession of the Devoted. The Devoted is a group formed to protect an important secret that fell into Turkish hands after the conquest of Istanbul. The Devoted, who are willing to risk everything to protect the secret, engage in a difficult struggle against the dark forces trying to seize it.
Zübeyde
5
Overview:
Zübeyde, Mothers and Sons, tells the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's mother, Zübeyde Hanim, which begins in Thessaloniki, in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire, and reflects the period until the declaration of the Republic.
He's Convict Now
5.6
Overview:
Sequel of He's in Army Now. The film has received four awards at the Antalya Golden Orange.
Mother Elif
5.5
Overview:
Mother Elif is known to be philanthropic and wise. She shares deep spiritual values such as love, peace, equality, sharing, tolerance, and compassion with all life she comes into contact with. This film shows her eventful life.
Riza
5.4
Overview:
Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being prepared to commit a brutal crime.
Halam Geldi
7.5
Overview:
On the border of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Greek village of Limya lies the frontier hamlet of Akıncılar, where the call to prayer mingles with church bells and Turkish music blends with Greek melodies, and people from Diyarbakır and Cyprus live side by side. In this village there are three children, each thirteen years old, bound together by fate and traveling a shared path. Their story unfolds amid a ritual that becomes ever more tangled: the drama of “child brides.”
Sirens in the Aegean
5.9
Overview:
A group of Greek solders, who serve their military service in Kos, is sent to guard the skerry of Pitta. Everything looked normal until a Turkish boat disembarks 4 castaways on Pitta.
Scapegoat
4.5
Overview:
Sahin K., who wants to leave his fame, wealth, but unhappy life in Germany behind and live a simple and normal life, decides to live in Bodrum. As he struggles to reunite with his son Caner, whom he lost because of his notoriety, he becomes a folk hero who will solve the town's problems. His unrelenting fame will drag him into different adventures.
Acting
2024Dedemin Gözyaşları as Unknown
2024Dünya Malı: Eksi Bir as Unknown
2024Emanet as İzzet
2024C Takımı as Unknown
2023İhtiyarlar Taburu as Unknown
2023Aybüke: Öğretmen Oldum Ben as Ragıp Baba
2023Five Cities: Ankara as Unknown
2023Zübeyde as Unknown
2023Hadi Hayırlısı: Istakoz'un Haritası as Unknown
2023Full Unity: Imalat-i Harbiye as Unknown
2022Day Zero (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2022Mother Elif as Günahkâr İsmail
2022Adanis: Kutsal Kavga as Cemal Amca
20218 (Sekiz) as Unknown
2021Paper Lives as Tahsin
2018Point of Conscience as Adnan
2017Seni Gidi Seni as Unknown
2016Impossible Probability as Reis Baba
2015Kanlı Postal as Sofi
2015En Güzeli as Unknown
2015Ya Nasip Ya Kısmet as Unknown
2015Code Name K.O.Z. as Özkan Hoca
2014Moses Without Rod as Unknown
2014King of the Cotton as Unknown
2014Without Me as Nurettin
2014Absolute Justice as Orhan
2014Halam Geldi as Dede
20138 Months as Halit
2013Gelmeyen Bahar as Sinan
2013Black Boy as Tokuçar Noyan
2012The Season has Blossomed as Musa
2012A Noise in the Night as Bektaş Sofu
2011Mor Menekşeler (29 Episodes) as Unknown
2011Scapegoat as Tevfik
2011Bosporus as Murat
2010Çakal as Fethi
2010Behzat Ç.: An Ankara Policeman (1 Episode) as Mehmet Zarlı
2010D as Unknown
2010Eşrefpaşalılar as Davut
2010Love and Punishment (39 Episodes) as Unknown
2009Çıngıraklı Top as Unknown
2009Kapadokya Düşleri (13 Episodes) as Unknown
2009En Mutlu Olduğum Yer as Unknown
2009İncir Çekirdeği as Abdülkadir
2008Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz as Koğuş Ağası Halil
2008The Storm as Unknown
2008Son Cellat as Odin James
2008Cars of the Revolution as Unknown
2008Dur Yolcu (13 Episodes) as Unknown
2008Plajda as Unknown
2008Kırmızı Işık (13 Episodes) as Unknown
2007Bayrampaşa Ben Fazla Kalmayacağım as Unknown
2007The Edge of Heaven as Cem
2007Fikrimin İnce Gülü (8 Episodes) as Unknown
2007Kuzey Rüzgarı (20 Episodes) as Unknown
2007Duvar (10 Episodes) as Unknown
2007Zincirbozan as Simitçi
2007Mavi Gözlü Dev as Baş Gardiyan
2007Riza as Unknown
2006Hope Island as Unknown
2005The Bitter Life (23 Episodes) as Sabri Yıldız
2005Sirens in the Aegean as Turgut
2005The İmam as Şükrü
2005Ayın Karanlık Yüzü as Unknown
2005He's Convict Now as Lahanacı
2005Savcının Karısı (26 Episodes) as Mazlum
2004Cennet Mahallesi (1 Episode) as Balyoz Muzaffer
2004Kayıp Cennet İnsanları as Unknown
2004The European Side (1 Episode) as Aşiret Reisi
2004The Devil's in the Details (13 Episodes) as Unknown
2003Hırçın Menekşe (13 Episodes) as Himmet
2003The Valley of The Wolves (35 Episodes) as Şahin Ağa
2002Beşik Kertmesi (19 Episodes) as Davulcu Yaşar
1993Ferhunde Hanım ve Kızları (1 Episode) as Belalı