{"id":8730,"date":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=8730","title":{"rendered":"Turhan Kaya, actor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turhan Kaya \u2011 a Turkish theatre, movie and television actor – succumbed to Covid-19-related complications on 31 March 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Kaya was born on 30 November 1951 in Istanbul. He was a graduate of the Yeditepe University School of Communication. He studied acting in England and Italy. He started acting with theatre in the early 1980s, but later switched to television. He was known for playing the Ordinary’s character in the series Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Kaya returned to television for his final role by portraying the character Cengiz Erkmen in the TV series Halka broadcast on TRT 1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Tuhan Kaya, who had a son from his French former wife, died at the age of 68 on 31 March 2020 at a hospital in Istanbul where he was being treated for COVID19. His body was buried in a private ceremony on 1 April 2020 at the Baklac Cemetery in Beykoz.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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