Originating from the Kurdish city of Hakkari, Yılmaz Erdoğan grew up in Ankara and later moved to Istanbul, where he left civil-engineering studies at Istanbul Technical University in 1987. After joining Ferhan Şensoy’s Nöbetçi Tiyatro, he created his own company Güldüşündürü in 1988 and wrote the play Kanuni Sultan Süleyman ve Rambo, later becoming chief screenwriter for the long-running sketch s…
