Kürşat Alnıaçık

Kürşat Alnıaçık — Biography

Kürşat Alnıaçık is an actor who came from the theatre stage and has worked for more than half a century, remembered especially for tough, enigmatic characters. The public knew him best as Savaş Doğan in Deli Yürek, and in later years he stayed on screen with productions such as Sakarya Fırat, Diriliş Ertuğrul, 50m2 and Yalnız Kurt. News reports say he has also joined the cast of Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı.

The son of the theatre figure Raik Alnıaçık, he entered the Istanbul State Conservatory theatre department in 1981 and graduated in 1985. On a British government scholarship in London he continued his modern dance training at the London Contemporary Dance School. Back in Turkey he began as a trainee at the Bursa State Theatre, taught at Uludağ University and spent nine years as a dance instructor at the Eyüboğlu schools. On stage he appeared with the State Theatre in plays such as Danton'un Ölümü, Don Juan, Kanlı Düğün and Üç Kız Kardeş. As a child he had played Memet Emin in the film Umut; in the 1990s he settled into television with Süper Baba and Sıcak Saatler (as Ceyhun Emre).

From the 2000s on he played Bakır in Sakarya Fırat, Murat Sarman in Kayıp, Turunç Nadir in Medcezir, Kudret Yıldırım in İsimsizler, Önder Sezin in Kara Sevda and Ural Bey in Diriliş Ertuğrul. He then became Ziya Cevran in Nöbet, Servet in 50m2, Tekin Giritli, nicknamed "Viking", in Yalnız Kurt and Yavuz Alptekin in Kör Nokta; he is announced to play Ali Vasfi in Canvermezler.