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name: "Fahrettin Altun"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/fahrettin-altun"
fi1m_id: "fahrettin-altun"
imdb_id: "nm12025430"
tmdb_id: 2913486
roles: []
born: "11 September 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T22:09:04.233964+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Fahrettin Altun

## Identity

Fahrettin Altun

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/fahrettin-altun
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** fahrettin-altun
- **IMDb ID:** nm12025430
- **TMDB ID:** 2913486
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12025430/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2913486

Actor. Born 11 September 1976 in Stuttgart, Germany.

## Details

- **Born:** 11 September 1976, Stuttgart, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12025430/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2913486

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Dissident*](https://film.one/film/the-dissident.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Fahrettin Altun is a Turkish academic, author and former government official. Born on 11 September 1976 in Stuttgart, Germany, he graduated in sociology from Istanbul University in 1998 and completed a PhD there in 2006 with a thesis comparing the media theories of McLuhan and Baudrillard.

He held teaching and administrative posts at Istanbul Şehir University and Istanbul Medeniyet University, and served as general coordinator of the SETA think tank. From 2018 to 2025 he was head of the Turkish Presidency’s Directorate of Communications.

Altun appeared as himself in the 2020 documentary *The Dissident*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Dissident* (2020), Fi1m 72, as Self - Interviewee — [page](https://film.one/film/the-dissident.md)

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