Biography
Mehmet Fikret Kuşkan was born on 22 April 1965 in Istanbul. His father’s family is of Albanian origin and his mother’s are Deliorman Turks. His father fell ill when he was seven and died when he was thirteen. He worked as a carpenter, market vendor and shop assistant until a literature teacher pointed him to the theatre. He graduated from the theatre department of Istanbul University State Conservatory in 1986 and made his film debut in Zülfü Livaneli’s Sis in 1988.
In the 1990s and 2000s he starred in Ömer Kavur’s Gizli Yüz and 9, and in Çağan Irmak’s Babam ve Oğlum, which won him best actor at the 25th Istanbul Film Festival, and Kabuslar Evi. On television he played Agah Karaçay in Zalim İstanbul and Atatürk in Akif, and more recently Notaras in Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı and Mehmet Karaca in Cem Karaca’nın Gözyaşları.
In 2026 he leads TRT 1‘s family drama Evlilik Güzeldir as Mesut Bahtiyar, a marriage registrar raising five daughters, which premiered on 7 September 2026. He also plays the businessman Umur Karanoğlu in atv’s upcoming Aynı Yağmur Altında.
