Şahan Gökbakar

Gökbakar grew up in Turkey's capital, Ankara, attending the primary school and high school attached to the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ). After completing high school in 1997, he went on to study music and visual arts at Bilkent University's Faculty of Fine Arts in Ankara. He graduated in 2002, with a GPA that ranked him fourth out of a total class of 350. Gökbakar's early life was overshadowed by the death of his father in a traffic accident when he was eight years old.

Works

Recep Ivedik 7

Recep and Nurullah decide to go village house, which is inherited from his grandma. Recep finds out the existence of a big project, that will damage the village and the surrounding forests. Villagers will fight against the project with Recep's leadership.

Release Date2022-12-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Recep Ivedik

Vote Count64

Recep Ivedik

A man finds the wallet of a rich man and takes a rigorous trip in an old car to return it, finding an old love and a new life of luxury awaiting.

Release Date2008-02-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Recep İvedik

Vote Count164

Recep Ivedik 3

Recep Ivedik has been depressed since the death of his grandmother. Everyone who tries to help him fails. A young girl named Zeynep, who can't find an apartment, stays with Recep. Initially, the two can't stand each others but after a while, they grow close. Despite many adventures together, Recep's depression won't go away. That is until he experiences something he had never experienced before.

Release Date2010-02-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Recep İvedik

Vote Count132

Recep Ivedik 2

When his grandmother takes ill, foolish brute Recep tries to satisfy her wishes by getting a job and attempting to find a suitable wife.

Release Date2009-02-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Recep İvedik

Vote Count143

Recep Ivedik 6

Recep İvedik is at home watching television, when postman brings him a surprise invitation for the annual dried beans festival of Konya province. Very excited with the news, Recep convinces his best friend Nurullah to join him but due to a miscommunication with the travel agency, they get plane tickets for Kenya, Africa, instead of Konya, Turkey. After arriving at Kenya and getting on a safari tour, our hapless companions find themselves lost in endless savannah and at the middle of two rival local tribes. Many adventures await Recep in this unfamiliar and exotic land, who will try anything and everything to return home, mostly to hilarious results.

Release Date2019-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Recep İvedik

Vote Count108

Recep Ivedik 5

During his visit of condolence to Ismet's funeral, Recep Ivedik feels sorry about Ismet's remaining family members due to his latest unfinished job contract which would cause hard financial situation for the family. Therefore, Recep decides to finish Ismet's last job by replacing himself as a bus driver and to transport group of athletes. Although Recep and his accompanying friend Nurullah were expecting this could be a short trip, they learn that it is not because they have to transport young national athletes to sports organization in a foreign country. This becomes the beginning for them to have irreversible adventure. When they are on the road, unfortunate things happen and crisis appears for the team. Recep, who believes only in victory, takes control of the situation and develops his own methods in order to make the team successful while he face with all funny events.

Release Date2017-02-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Recep Ivedik

Vote Count115

Recep Ivedik 4

Recep Ivedik coaches the children football team in his neighborhood. For the training he uses the only free piece of land as football field on which he used to play football as a child. Recep notices sadly that this piece of land was sold to a businessman. So as not to loose this for the neighborhood and the children valuable piece of land he decides to re-buy it on his own. With his own methods he does not receive the money. The participation in a competition with a big price is the only solution of his problem ...

Release Date2014-02-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Recep İvedik

Vote Count132

Osman Pazarlama

Osman, is a small scale entrepreneur in a middle class neighborhood of Istanbul where he operates from a hangar transformed into an office. He dreams of getting rich through the sales of products imported from the Far East and also self invented products, thus marrying the girl he loves from the neighborhood. The biggest challenge he faces to marry the girl he is in love with is to convince the girls father that he is a successful businessman. Osman believes the only way to do this is making a big breakthrough with his company. He embarks on many adventures to sell his products, all end up in hilarious misfortunes and failures. On his journey to become rich, the only companions he has are Erkan and Songül who is the daughter of a family friend from the neighborhood. At the end of the day Osman will come to realize that wealth was never far-off.

Release Date2016-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Osman Şaşmaz

Vote Count60

Kayhan: Revenge at the Reunion

After a brawny alum learns how his classmates truly feel about him, he schemes to give them a lesson on payback during a 20-year high school reunion.

Release Date2018-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Kayhan

Vote Count31

Celal and Ceren

Celal, who dreams of achieving happiness as a ladies' man and charmer, soon gets into difficulties and suffers misfortune. Back when Celal was in a relationship, he was jealous of the life of a bachelor.

Release Date2013-01-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Celal

Vote Count85

Recep Ivedik 8

8th installment of Recep İvedik. Plot TBA.

Release Date2026-06-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Recep İvedik

Erdal and Ece

The story of a married couple who experience funny conflicts in their relationship.

Release Date2024-02-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Erdal

Vote Count9

Erdal and Ece 2

Lifestyle changes, fears of infidelity, and a series of comedic misfortunes test the love of a couple who actually have a very happy marriage.

Release Date2024-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Erdal

Vote Count6

Gen

A suicide case is informed to the police from a mental hospital in a rocky district. Two policemen comes to hospital to investigate the case. In the same morning, Dr. Deniz comes to hospital as the new psychiatrist. Because of the heavy rain and landslide the only road and telephone connections that provide access to hospital from the city are damaged.There is no transportation to hospital and none can leave hospital. During three days, three patients are killed wildly in the hospital. Everyone becomes anxious. The police deepen the investigation. A mystical patient attracts attention.

Release Date2006-04-07

Charactersd Tecrit Hastası

Vote Count25

Golden Butterfly Awards

Release Date1973-12-09

Charactersd Self - Winner

Episode Count1

Dikkat Şahan Çıkabilir

Attention Şahan Çıkabilir is a comedy Turkish television program prepared and presented by Şahan Gökbakar, which was broadcast between 2005-2006. This program, consisting of sketches, talks about daily events.

Release Date2005-02-05

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Self

Episode Count[ 41 ]

Vote Count19

Zengo

A housewife with a big passion for fashion and with the help of her tailor Fazilet, she is turning her ideas into reality, but she gets competition from her school day friend and rival Menkibe.

Release Date2020-03-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7