İlyas Salman (born 14 January 1949) is a Turkish actor, film director, author, screenwriter and musician. He shared the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival's Best Actor Award in 2012 together with

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Personal life

Salman was born on 14 January 1949 in Arguvan,

Malatya Malatya ( hy, Մալաթիա, translit=Malat'ya; Syro-Aramaic ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; ku, Meletî; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a large city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province. The city ...

. His family originate from the Asar neighborhood in Arguvan. He was accepted as a

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because of the Kurdish typologies he had played for many years. In 2007, in an article written by himself and later in a book he revealed that he was an Alevi

Turkmen Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Peoples Historical ethnonym * Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Ethnic groups * Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...

. He is a supporter of the left-wing. He participated at Communist Party of Turkey's rally in Kartal on 1 May 2006. He is one of the contributors to '' Turkish Left'' magazine.

''Karanfil Kokuyor Cıgaram''

As of 1 October 2009, he wanted to start performing a show called "Karanfil Kokuyor Cıgaram" where he would read the poems from the book "Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim" by Ahmed Arif in Bakırköy Art Center. The visual director of the show would be his son Temmuz Salman. His daughter Devrim Salman would be the soloist on the show. However, due to some temporary health problems of İlyas Salman, the program was postponed for a while.Bakırköy Sanat Merkezi internet site
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Filmography

Actor

Films

TV shows

Director and screenwriter

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Salman, Ilyas 1949 births Living people People from Istanbul Turkish male film actors Best Actor Golden Boll Award winners Turkish film directors Ankara State Conservatory alumni Turkish male television actors Turkish former Muslims Turkish atheists