Ercan Yazgan (4 April 1946 – 8 March 2018) was a Turkish

comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or a ...

and

political satirist Political satire is satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where Political discourse analysis, political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing ...

. He was widely regarded as one of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

's most prominent and respected comedians. He starred in numerous movies and various TV-series. He died on 8 March 2018, at the age of 72 from

multiple organ failure Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring medical intervention to achieve homeostasis. Although Irwin and Rippe cautioned in 2005 that the use of "multiple organ failure" or "multisy ...

.Prominent Turkish actor Ercan Yazgan passes away at 72
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Filmography

Bana Masal Anlatma ''Telling Tales'' ( tr, Bana Masal Anlatma) is a 2015 Turkish comedy film directed by Burak Aksak. Cast * Hande Doğandemir - Ayperi * Fatih Artman - Riza * Devrim Yakut - Selma * Erdal Tosun - Cemal * - Timur * Gürkan Uygun - Jilet Ali * C ...

- 2015 * İffet - 2011 * Kardelen - 2010 * Hanımın Çiftliği - 2010 * Nekrüt - 2008 * Yalancı Yarim - 2007 * Ahh İstanbul - 2006 *

Tatil Aşkları In Islamic theology, taʿṭīl ( ar, تَعْطِيل‎) means "divesting" God of His attributes. The word literally means to suspend and stop the work and refers to a form of apophatic theology which is said because God bears no resemblance t ...

- 2004 * Altın Kafes - 2004 * Hayat Bilgisi - 2003 * Sırlar Dünyası / Sır Kapısı - 2002 * Aşk Meydan Savaşı - 2002 *

Balalayka The balalaika (russian: link=no, балала́йка, ) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and the thi ...

- 2000 * Duruşma - 1999 *

Sevda Kondu Sevda is a Turkish given name. Notable people with the name include: * Sevda Alakbarzadeh (born 1977), Azerbaijani singer * Sevda Altunoluk (born 1994), Turkish goalball player * Sevda Alizadeh (born 1987), Iranian-Dutch singer * Sevda Dalgıç (b ...

- 1996 * Kaygısızlar - 1994 * Yazlıkçılar - 1993 * Bir Milyara Bir Çocuk - 1990 *

Bizimkiler ''Bizimkiler'' ''(Ours, Our People)'' was a Turkish drama, represented the lives of the people who shared the same neighborhood. It is also the name of musical project run by ANS TV. The show is development of the movie Kapıcılar Kralı for ...

- 1989 * Kabadayı - 1986 *

Perihan Abla Perihan is a Turkish female name from Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples * ...

- 1986 * Üç İstanbul - 1983 * Arkadaşım - 1982 * Dokunmayın Şabanıma - 1979 * Ölüm Görevi - 1978 * Sen Aşk Nedir Bilir Misin - 1977 * Sarmaş Dolaş - 1977 * Tatlı Kaçık - 1977 * İzin - 1975 * Hüdaverdi-Pırtık - 1971 *

Susuz Yaz ''Dry Summer'' (a.k.a. ''Reflections''; tr, Susuz Yaz) is a 1964 black-and-white Turkish drama film, co-produced, co-written and directed by Metin Erksan based on a novel by Necati Cumalı, featuring Erol Taş as a tobacco farmer, who dams a rive ...

- 1963

References

1946 births 2018 deaths Best Supporting Actor Golden Orange Award winners Deaths from multiple organ failure Turkish comedians Turkish male film actors People from Sinop, Turkey {{Turkey-comedian-stub