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
Engin Günaydın.
Personal life
Salman was born on 14 January 1949 in
Arguvan
Arguvan ( ku, Erxewan/Arxewan) is a district of Malatya Province of Turkey. The mayor is Mehmet Kızıldaş ( CHP).
Demographics
The majority of the district is Alevi from both Kurdish and Turkish ethnicity. The Kurdish Atman tribe reside in t ...
,
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 h ...
. His family originate from the Asar neighborhood in Arguvan. He was accepted as a
Kurd 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
Alevism or Anatolian Alevism (; tr, Alevilik, ''Anadolu Aleviliği'' or ''Kızılbaşlık''; ; az, Ələvilik) is a local Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Alevi Islamic ( ''bāṭenī'') teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, w ...
Turkmen.
He is a supporter of the left-wing. He participated at
Communist Party of Turkey's rally in
Kartal
Kartal is a district of Istanbul, Turkey, located on the Asian side of the city, on the coast of the Marmara Sea between Maltepe and Pendik.
Despite being far from the city centre, Kartal is heavily populated (total population of 541,209) (2008 ...
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
External links
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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