
Age: 31
male
Kubilay Aka was born in 1995 and has a degree in Airport Management from Anadolu University. He later took acting lessons and worked at an airline in Muğla before making his television debut with Kanal D series Vatanım Sensin as Ali Kemal. He had another supporting role in the popular series Çukur, in which he portrayed the character of Celasun. He had a small role in the 2017 movie Arif V 216. He was cast in a leading role in the 2018 movie Aşk Bu Mu? alongside Afra Saraçoğlu. In 2020, he had one of the main roles in Netflix original series Aşk 101, playing the role of Kerem.

Kubilay Aka

Sultan Mehmed II (historical figure)
for Sultan Mehmed II (historical figure) in İpek ve Demir
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Set in the glittering Ottoman Renaissance of the 15th century — the period immediately following Sultan Mehmed II's conquest of Constantinople and his extraordinary project to transform the city into the new Islamic center of civilization — İpek ve Demir follows Zehra Karaçay, 26, a Black woman raised by the Karaçay family, one of the oldest and most distinguished administrative families of the Ottoman court. Zehra is a woman of the Ottoman Renaissance at its most magnificent: she speaks Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and Greek, is a poet and calligrapher of genuine accomplishment, and manages the Karaçay household's significant charitable endowments with intelligence and compassion. She is entirely, profoundly Ottoman in every facet of her identity — her full Turkish name reflecting her family's love for her. Her arranged marriage to Sinan Yıldırım, the court's most brilliant young architect commissioned by Sultan Mehmed to design mosques and public buildings for the new Constantinople, creates an extraordinary partnership: Zehra's scholarship and administrative brilliance with Sinan's architectural vision. Three seasons track their marriage from formal arrangement through intellectual partnership through genuine love, against the backdrop of one of the most culturally extraordinary moments in world history.