Çağdaş Onur Öztürk was born on August 16, 1979 in Sivas. Turkish TV series, cinema and theater actor. Name: Çağdaş Onur Öztürk Date of Birth: 16 August 1979 Place of Birth: Sivas Height: 1.81 m. Weight: 74 kilos Zodiac sign: Leo Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: Black Child: Aden Öztürk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cagdasonurozturk/ Education life: While studying at Ege University, Department of Landscape Architecture, he was active in the faculty’s theater club.
After graduating from university, he did his military service and when he returned, he worked as a representative for a pharmaceutical company for a short time. Then he entered and graduated from Anadolu University State Conservatory Performing Arts Department. How did he decide to become an actor? While he was studying at the Department of Landscape Architecture at Ege University, he started amateur theater with the suggestions of my classmates, and that’s when his passion for acting began.
“Another world opened up to me and I asked myself the question, ‘Why don’t I do this job?’ I was studying landscape. Until then, I had taken part in small school plays, but I had not attracted any attention. I finished the landscape department. Then I went to the military, I came back, I was 23 years old and worked as a pharmaceutical representative for nine months. I still had not taken the step into acting. I finally entered the conservatory, I was 26 years old.
I entered Anadolu University Theater Department, one of the two schools with no age limit. While I was studying, I started acting in TV series. At that time, I earned money by playing guitar and studied. At that age, I was not in a position to ask my family for money just because I was studying again. Because I was the child of a poor family. While I was studying, seven of us lived in the same house. When I finished school, I had 500 TL in my pocket and the place where this work was done was Istanbul.
I had to go there. I have been to Istanbul twice in my life. There were a couple of people I knew. I came to Istanbul. I signed up with an agency. After a few weeks, small jobs started coming. As time progressed and I made effort, things got better.” First step into acting: He started his television adventure in 2008 with the series ‘Gazi’. Which project did he shine with? He attracted attention with the character ‘Barış Hakmen’ he played in the TV series ‘Kuzey Güney’.
Social: He doesn’t like taking photos and giving interviews. He likes to spend his time outside of work at home. “We are doing a popular job; Yes, but I try to keep these to a minimum. You can’t see me outside, I’m a home-loving person. I stay at home and watch movies and read books. I do my best to protect myself from that popular life outside. Mindset: Being famous is not a feeling he enjoys very much. “The more fame, the more loneliness.
In fact, I almost got lost in that ‘famous’ period of my life. That attention could have fascinated me and drawn me in. But thankfully it didn’t. I coped with this situation by questioning, moving away from speed and ambition, stopping for a while to calm down, and finally trying to stay in balance.” What was the unfortunate incident he experienced on the set? In 2016, he had a fatal accident during the filming of the TV series Diriliş: Ertuğrul, fell off the horse and went into intensive care with dozens of fractures, including the bones in his face.
It took three months to recover. At that time, he lived with the ebb and flow of whether he could act or not. “I didn’t know how to ride a horse. We were in a preparation process when the accident happened. But until then, I was getting compliments on how well I rode. That day, I was given a horse that I had never ridden before. I realized that I was treating the horse as a machine. It is a living being, you need to communicate with it, you always have to ride the same horse so that it gets used to you.
I always understood these things later. It was the 12th day of my horse riding when I had the accident. We got into a pile of gravel with the horse. The last time was.” What I remember is that everything slowed down. And suddenly it stopped. When I opened my eyes, I was in the hospital, about to be taken into surgery. They had given very high doses of painkillers, so there was no feeling. My shoulder was shattered and replaced with screws.
I had fractures in my wrist and in my cheekbone on the left side of my face. There are screws there too. My left eye was completely closed. I’m in a good situation now, but for a while I thought it would never get better, ‘Okay, acting is over for me. I said, ‘I need to look for another job.’ But thank God it passed. My doctors Metin Uzun, Şükrü Yazır and Nur Acar were very good, they performed completely plastic surgeries.
They performed the operation by entering through my eye and above the tooth, so that my face would not be damaged. During the recovery process, there was a complete fluctuation in my perspective on life. I fluctuated from ‘This is over, you look terrible’ to ‘No, I’m fine’. My face was bad during the post-operative recovery period. I was weak. And above all, I was mentally exhausted. But thank God it passed. My son was only five months old.
“My wife is a very strong woman, I understand that.” First movie: Oğuz Çelik/Keep Your Word View of life: He does not like to be on the agenda with his private life, so he prefers to live as far away from the tabloids as possible. “As I reveal myself, people find the courage to poke my life. But I have to protect my family and myself against this. If I am not around then, I will not be in this situation. On the other hand, we are acting in direct proportion to your awareness.
The more you remind yourself, the more you can find a job. But I don’t want to find a job that much. I don’t want to be the person who can’t walk on the road or shop at the market. Beşiktaş is my neighborhood, I can walk freely here, my wife is an ‘auntie’ for the neighborhood shopkeepers. “They know my son Aden because we are neighbors. I feel very safe like that. Otherwise, if you don’t know who is with you and why, you become lonely and paranoid.” His view on business life: He did not enjoy acting at first, but later he fell in love with his profession.
“At the beginning, I questioned myself a lot, ‘Will I be able to do this job? Am I able to do it?’. Then, I realized that I could convince the audience. For example, when I was playing in Kuzey Güney, I am not a man like Barış Hakmen, but people thought so. Then, I said to myself, ‘There is a success there.’ I am enjoying it very much now. I suddenly stopped despising myself and started to enjoy acting. But this does not mean that I cannot leave the profession in the future.
Because I believe in change, everyone and everything can change. Therefore, one day I may give up the profession I am passionate about. If I have the strength and I’m healthy, I can do anything. “I’m happy now, I hope it continues like this.” Career plan: After the unfortunate accident he had on set in 2016, he thought his career was about to end. “It is not easy for someone who does business with their appearance to come to the end of their career with a sudden event.
I experienced that pain a lot because I realized that it was hanging by a thread. But that’s how life is anyway. Everything is momentary. I finally remembered that I love my job very much. Playing other people is a deep look into their lives from my own perspective, I love it and I always want to portray different characters.” Criterion of attractiveness in women: He is not interested in external beauty, the feature he finds most attractive in women is; Kindness.
“I like looking into people. I don’t like mean-spirited people. I am interested in that person’s purity, cleanliness and how much he realizes himself. I think a self-actualized woman is very attractive. Beauty is also in one’s gaze. I’m impressed by those sparkles. “I don’t care about a woman’s beauty, her legs, her breasts.” Çağdaş Onur Öztürk TV Series 2026 – More 17 – Serhat 2026 – Summer House – (To be Announced) Secret Garden (2024) – Aziz Cem (NOW) Ömer (2023-2024) – Nevzat (Star TV) Sipahi (2022-2023) – Yusuf (Show TV) Time to Love (2022) – Taner (atv) Akrep (2021) – Ahmet Avlu (2018-2019) – Oktay (Star TV) Enemy in My Home (2018) – Kemal (Show TV) Circle: 13.
Adım (2017) – Mehmet (Star TV) Diriliş Ertuğrul (2016-2017) – Vasilyus (TRT 1) Kış Güneşi (2016) – Bora (Show TV) Yaz’ın Öyküsü (2015) – Tunç (Kanal D) Aşktan inescapable (2014) – Ali (Star TV) Dreams and Hopes (2014) – Çakı (FOX) Don’t Let It End Like This (2013) – Atilla (TRT 1) Kuzey Güney (2011-2013) – Barış Hakmen (Kanal D) Sakarya Fırat (2009-2011) – Hasan Turna (TRT 1) Doğruluk Axis (2008) – Doğan (Samanyolu TV) Gazi (2008) – Akın (atv) Çağdaş Onur Öztürk Cinema Movies Connection Error – Levent Kardeş Team 2 (2025) Asaf (2024) – Murat Hatıran Yeter Cadı Mesmer Aşkın 5 Hali (2016) – Korhan Sarmaşık (2015) – Sailor Take Good Care of Myself (2014) – Emre Tut Sözünü Latest TV Series Project Çağdaş Onur Öztürk’s most current and magnificent television work in his career is the TV series More 17, which was broadcast on Kanal D on Sunday nights and turned the rating lists upside down.
The series, delicately written by Gökhan Korkusuz and Redife Zerener and directed by Emre Kabakuşak with a cinematographic vision, is far beyond being a mere youth or family drama, it is a huge production that deeply explores power struggles, corruption, past traumas and the struggle for survival. The character of Serhat has a socio-psychological depth that is rare in television dramas. According to official definitions, Serhat; He is a man who “hides his weaknesses behind his kindness”, who fights a relentless internal struggle with his own ambitions in the shadow of Hakan Akkaya, and who has turned the secret hatred within him into his greatest life motivation.
Öztürk never raises his voice while playing this character; On the contrary, he presents his most dangerous moves and cruelest threats to the other person with an extremely polite smile and aristocratic body language. Internet Projects Prince: The character “Thenio”, played by BluTV in this series that has become a phenomenon throughout Türkiye, opened a brand new page in Öztürk’s career. Especially the funny and sweet spy love they had with the character “Csillia”, played by Ebru Şahin, who joined the cast in the second season of the series, has been one of the most talked about topics on social media.
This is the World: His participation in this production, which is one of the most visionary examples of the absurd comedy and sketch format in Turkey, proves how prone he is to an innovative sense of humor. Therapist: In this psychological thriller mini-series, he wanders into the corridors of the human mind and becomes part of a world built on secrets and lies. Asaf: He worked with names such as Rıza Kocaoğlu in this production, which also made a name for itself in the digital world and questions the concepts of crime, conscience and justice.
Awards and Nominations Looking at the success of the projects in Turkish television and cinema history rather than Çağdaş Onur Öztürk’s individual awards rack, reveals his intuitive intelligence in choosing the right projects. The movie Sarmaşık, in which he starred, received awards such as “Best Film”, “Best Director” and “Best Screenplay” from Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Adana Golden Boll Film Festival and numerous international festivals.
Likewise, the TV series Kuzey Güney and Avlu were the productions that dominated all award ceremonies when they were broadcast. Critic and Fan Comments Çağdaş Onur Öztürk is a respected artist who is agreed upon by both master television critics and his large fan base. Critics often use academic and technical terms such as “becoming giant on the screen”, “micro-mimic mastery” and “body language serving the script” when analyzing his performances.
His work on digital platforms, especially his role as Thenio in the Prince series, has enabled him to establish a strong bond with Generation Z. Private Life and His Place in the Media In today’s media order, where celebrities prefer to spend every second on social media and magazine programs and where scandals are turned into careers, Çağdaş Onur Öztürk stands like a plane tree with his uncompromising respect for the privacy of his private life.
Çağdaş Onur Öztürk is married. The couple has a child named Aden Öztürk, who was born from this happy marriage. Öztürk, who spends most of his time on the sets, rehearsing difficult scenes and creating new characters, prefers to devote all his remaining time to his wife and child Aden. Future Projects Çağdaş Onur Öztürk’s vision extending to 2026 and beyond shows that he is at the peak of productivity and sectoral demand.
Kanal D’s rating record-breaking project, More 17, which has already entered the broadcasting life like a storm, will continue to be the most talked about work of the 2026 season. In addition, he will also take part in a brand new television project called Summer House, which is planned to be broadcast on June 6, 2026, according to reliable sources in the industry. About Frequently Asked Questions Where is Çağdaş Onur Öztürk originally from?
Successful theatre, cinema and TV series actor Çağdaş Onur Öztürk is originally from Sivas and was born in Sivas on 16 August 1979. How old is Çağdaş Onur Öztürk? The talented actor, who was born on August 16, 1979, is 46-47 years old as of 2026. What is Çağdaş Onur Öztürk’s height and weight? His height is 1.83 meters, which is his biggest physical advantage in playing authoritarian roles, and he weighs approximately 74 kilos.
Is Çağdaş Onur Öztürk married, who is his wife? Yes, master actor Çağdaş Onur Öztürk is married. Although his wife’s name is not featured in the media because she attaches great importance to the confidentiality of her private life, it is known that she has a happy marriage. Does Çağdaş Onur Öztürk have any children? Yes, the successful actor has a child named Aden Öztürk, born from this marriage. Which schools did Çağdaş Onur Öztürk graduate from?
The artist first graduated from Ege University, Department of Landscape Architecture, and then successfully completed Eskişehir Anadolu University State Conservatory, Department of Performing Arts. What is Çağdaş Onur Öztürk’s character in the TV series 17? In Kanal D’s ambitious production, More 17, he gives life to an extremely dangerous and deep character named “Serhat”, who hides his weaknesses behind his kindness and struggles with his own ambitions.
Did Çağdaş Onur Öztürk act in the Prince TV series? Yes, he played the character “Thenio” in BluTV’s popular comedy series Prince, and especially his partnership with Ebru Şahin (Csillia) received great praise. What was his role in the TV series Kuzey Güney? He appeared before the audience with the role of Barış Hakmen, an ambitious and obsessive character, in Kuzey Güney, one of the cult series in Turkish television history.
What are the most popular movies starring Çağdaş Onur Öztürk? Sarmaşık, Keep Your Promise, Take Care of Myself and Hatıran Yeter, Witch and Brother Team, which was released in 2024, are among the most important projects in which the two actors took part.


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