Biography
Can Bartu Arslan was born on 6 May 2000 in Istanbul to a family originally from Sivas. He began appearing in commercials at eight, and his first television job was Cennet’in Çocukları in 2008. In 2018 he won a full scholarship to the theatre department of Istanbul Okan University Conservatory.
His breakthrough was Ömer Çakırbeyli, son of Hızır Çakırbeyli, in Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz, which he played for more than a hundred episodes between 2015 and 2019. He then played Çetin in the youth drama Öğretmen and the energetic Sinan in Tozluyaka in 2022.
In film, his role as Hakan in Nehir Tuna’s Yurt (2023), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, won him Best Supporting Actor at the 57th SİYAD Turkish Cinema Awards. In 2026 he joined atv‘s drama Mercan Köşk as Mert Demiray.
