Who is Turgut Özatay?

Turgut Özatay (30 December 1927, Alasehir, Manisa - 26 June 2002, Istanbul), Turkish film actor.

Following his young roles in the 1950s and 1960s, he became one of the leading villains of both Cüneyt Arkın and Kemal Sunal films.

The head of EOKAcılar in the film Sezercik Küçük Mücahit, Abbas in the film Kurban, the contractor who owns the land in the film Our Hope Şaban, the owner of a clothing store and tormenting him in the film Yuvsiz Kuşlar by Ferdi Tayfur, the Bear Abbas, who is crazy about lemon in the film Korkusuz Korkak, Minibusman Hasan in his movie, Davut looking for the tape "Şiki Şiki Baba" in the movie "Come with Skip Saban", the villager of Zülfü who was a middleman in the city in the movie "Keriz", one of the men who played a game at the gambling table in the movie "Fortune Hafiye", "Manyak Mahmut ”played their roles. He died of lung cancer on June 26, 2002.

He is known as the 3rd person who translated the most films in Turkish cinema (he appeared in 497 films).

He is the son of Emin Özatay, one of the Balkan Turks who migrated from Skopje to Izmir before the Balkan Wars.

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