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name: "Mehmet Kurtuluş"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mehmet-kurtulus"
fi1m_id: "mehmet-kurtulus"
imdb_id: "nm0476011"
tmdb_id: 5496
wikidata_id: "Q78168"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "27 April 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T18:18:21.224255+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."
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# Mehmet Kurtuluş

## Identity

Mehmet Kurtuluş

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mehmet-kurtulus
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mehmet-kurtulus
- **IMDb ID:** nm0476011
- **TMDB ID:** 5496
- **Wikidata ID:** Q78168
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Kurtulu%C5%9F, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78168, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476011/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5496

Producer. Born 27 April 1972 in Uşak, Turkey.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 27 April 1972, Uşak, Turkey
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Kurtulu%C5%9F, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78168, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476011/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5496

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Head-On*](https://film.one/film/head-on.md) (72)

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## Biography

Mehmet Kurtuluş is a Turkish-German actor. Born on 27 April 1972 in Uşak, Turkey, he moved to Germany at the age of 18 months and grew up in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony.

He began with theatre work and minor television roles before his breakthrough as Gabriel in Fatih Akın's *Short Sharp Shock* (1998). He subsequently appeared in Akın's *In July* (2000) as Isa and *Head-On* (2004) as Barmann Istanbul, which he also co-produced. Other film roles include parts in *The Tunnel* (2001), *Naked* (2002) and *Big Game* (2014).

On television, Kurtuluş played the lead detective Cenk Batu in six episodes of the German series *Tatort* (2008–2011) and later appeared in international productions such as *Into the Night* (2020) as Ayaz and *The Protector* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Head-On* (2004), Fi1m 72, as Barmann Istanbul — [page](https://film.one/film/head-on.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *And The Rest Will Follow* (2025), as Lawyer Ahmet Sönmez
- *Mary* (2024), as Bava Ben Buta
- *Testament: The Story of Moses* (2024), series, as Pharaoh
- *Mordach - Tod in den Bergen* (2023), series, as Cuma Ozan
- *The Young Chief Winnetou* (2022), as Intschu-tschuna
- *FBI: International* (2021), series, as Mehdi Esfandiari
- *Into the Night* (2020), series, as Ayaz
- *Abikalypse* (2019), as Mustis Vater
- *Who Killed Lady Winsley?* (2019), as Fergan
- *The Protector* (2018), series, as Mazhar Dragusha
- *Clair Obscur* (2017), as Cem
- *Snowflake* (2017), as Feuer
- *Culpa - No One Is Innocent* (2017), series, as Journalist
- *Magnificent Century: Kösem* (2015), series, as Derviş Paşa
- *Abenteuer Türkei* (2015), series, as Sprecher
- *8 Seconds* (2015), as Sami
- *Famous Five 4* (2015), as Farouk
- *Head Full of Honey* (2014), as Dr. Holst
- *Big Game* (2014), as Hazar
- *Empathy Bx* (2012), as Rashid
- *Transfer* (2010), as Laurin
- *Vasha* (2009), as Artur
- *Pars: Operation Cherry* (2007), as Atilla Karahan
- *Eine Liebe in Saigon* (2006), as Robin
- *Soundless* (2004), as Sicherheitschef des Russen
- *Head-On* (2004), as Barmann Istanbul · Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/head-on.md)
- *Abdulhamid Falling* (2003), as Bnb. Şefik Bey
- *Equilibrium* (2002), as Search Coordinator
- *Naked* (2002), as Dylan
- *Boran* (2002), as Deniz Akim
- *Herz* (2001), as Cem Rüya
- *The Tunnel* (2001), as Vittorio Castanza
- *In July* (2000), as Isa
- *Versprich mir, dass es den Himmel gibt* (1999), as Louis
- *Short Sharp Shock* (1998), as Gabriel
- *Getürkt* (1997), Actor
- *SK-Babies* (1996), series, as Hakan Yassin
- *Adelheid und ihre Mörder* (1993), series, as Hassan
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Cenk Batu, Cem Aslan
- *Juste après l'aube*, Actor
- *A Small Mistake*, as Selim

## Gallery

- ![Mehmet Kurtuluş](https://film.one/media/person/3934176/gallery-675b3c3b0dd4.jpg) Mehmet Kurtuluş — Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Mehmet_Kurtulu%C5%9F_-_2017213231356_2017-08-01_Fotoprobe_Nibelungen_Festspiele_Worms_Glut_-_Sven_-_1D_X_MK_II_-_0589_-_B70I7685.jpg/1280px-Mehmet_Kurtulu%C5%9F_-_2017213231356_2017-08-01_Fotoprobe_Nibelungen_Festspiele_Worms_Glut_-_Sven_-_1D_X_MK_II_-_0589_-_B70I7685.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mehmet Kurtuluş](https://film.one/media/person/3934176/gallery-b523fe87c215.jpg) Mehmet Kurtuluş — Image via TMDB

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