Biography
İsmail Kerem Alışık was born on 5 June 1960 in Istanbul. He is the only son of the actors Sadri Alışık and Çolpan İlhan and a nephew of the poet Attilâ İlhan. As a young man he played youth football for Dikilitaşspor and Üsküdar Anadolu, and he has published two poetry books, Kerem Misali and Öyle Sever Gibi Bakma Bana Alışık Değilim.
He started acting in the mid-1990s, with his screen debut in the 1996 series Fırtınalar and his film debut in Dansöz. He has since appeared in Zehirli Çiçek, Kartallar Yüksek Uçar, Kara Kutu, Kara Sevda, Bir Zamanlar Çukurova and Sipahi, where he played Yıldırım Zafer Bozok.
In film he played Turist Ömer in Arif v 216, a role made famous by his father, and Fatin Rüştü Zorlu in Ben Onu Çok Sevdim. He married the actress Sibel Turnagöl in 1988; they divorced in 1993 and have a son, Sadri. In September 2026 he joined Kanal D‘s family drama Haysiyet as Sadık Karlıova, the head of the Karlıova family.
