Murat Ünalmış

Murat Ünalmış is a Turkish actor best known as Demir Yaman in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova (Bitter Lands) and, since 2026, as Mirza Kozaklı in the hit drama Sevdan Bir Ateş. He was born on 23 April 1981 in Kayseri and moved to Istanbul after middle school.

Career

As a teenager Ünalmış played basketball professionally for Fenerbahçe. He graduated in business administration from Marmara University and trained as an actor at Akademi İstanbul.

After roles in series such as Hayat Bağları and Kurşun Yarası, he became widely known through Mahsun Kırmızıgül’s films Güneşi Gördüm (I Saw the Sun) and New York’ta Beş Minare (Five Minarets in New York). He played leading roles in Yer Gök Aşk and in TRT 1’s Sevda Kuşun Kanadında (2016–2017).

From 2018 to 2021 he played Demir Yaman, the passionate and tormented son of the powerful Yaman family, in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova. He then starred in Gülcemal (2023), and in 2026 he returned to the top of the ratings as Mirza in Sevdan Bir Ateş, opposite Özge Özacar.

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