Top 50 Tallest and Shortest Turkish Actors (Dizi Stars) in 2026
The 50 tallest and the shortest verified Turkish dizi actors, ranked with sourced heights — from Onur Tuna and Furkan Palalı to the industry's most compact leading men.
By Abin Kark
Turkish television has quietly become one of the biggest exports in global entertainment — Turkish dizi (drama series) now reach an estimated 1 billion viewers across more than 150 countries, with international demand growing 184% between 2020 and 2023, a faster pace than Korean drama's growth over the same stretch. Spain, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt all currently rank dizi among their most-watched imported content.
With that kind of reach comes an unusually specific kind of fan curiosity: exactly how tall are the leading men carrying these shows? This guide ranks the 50 tallest Turkish actors with sourced heights, plus the shortest we could actually verify — every figure below is traced to a specific source, not guessed. If you want to see how you'd stack up next to any of them, our free Height Comparison Tool draws it to scale in seconds.
Featured Answer: Who is the tallest Turkish actor? Furkan Palalı is the tallest Turkish actor with a reliably sourced height, standing 193 cm (6'4"), per his English Wikipedia infobox. Onur Tuna is sometimes cited even taller at 196 cm, but that figure is uncited and conflicts with a Turkish tabloid gallery listing him at 185 cm — see the disputed-heights note below.
Featured Answer: How tall is Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ? Turkish Wikipedia lists Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ at 187 cm (6'1.5"), though a Hürriyet gallery separately reports 190 cm — a fairly common pattern for Turkey's biggest global stars, whose heights are more often estimated by fans and tabloids than officially confirmed.
A Quick Honesty Note
Turkish Wikipedia frequently includes a "Boy" (height) field for actors — usually sourced from modeling-agency profiles rather than a footnoted primary record — which makes it a genuinely useful starting point, but not a certified one. Where Wikipedia had no entry, we cross-checked mainstream Turkish media height-ranking galleries (Hürriyet/Mahmure, Habertürk, Ensonhaber, A24), which run this exact format of content regularly. We excluded lower-quality "celebrity facts" aggregator sites entirely — spot-checking them against each other showed routine 5–10 cm disagreements on the same person, a sign of guessing rather than reporting. Where two reasonable sources still disagreed, we flag it explicitly rather than silently picking a number.
The 50 Tallest Turkish Actors
| Rank | Actor | Height (ft/in) | Height (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onur Tuna* | 6'5" | 196 cm |
| 2 | Furkan Palalı | 6'4" | 193 cm |
| 3 | Burak Hakkı | 6'3.5" | 192 cm |
| 4 | Şükrü Özyıldız | 6'3" | 191 cm |
| 5 | Furkan Andıç | 6'3" | 191 cm |
| 6 | İdris Nebi Taşkan | 6'3" | 190 cm |
| 7 | Mehmet Akif Alakurt | 6'2.5" | 189 cm |
| 8 | Erkan Petekkaya | 6'2.5" | 189 cm |
| 9 | Timuçin Esen | 6'2.5" | 189 cm |
| 10 | Can Yaman | 6'2" | 188 cm |
| 11 | Serkan Çayoğlu | 6'2" | 188 cm |
| 12 | Barış Arduç | 6'1.5" | 187 cm |
| 13 | Uraz Kaygılaroğlu | 6'1.5" | 187 cm |
| 14 | Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ* | 6'1.5" | 187 cm |
| 15 | Engin Akyürek* | 6'1.5" | 187 cm |
| 16 | Ege Aydan | 6'1" | 186 cm |
| 17 | Halit Ergenç* | 6'1" | 185 cm |
| 18 | Cengiz Coşkun | 6'1" | 185 cm |
| 19 | Selahattin Paşalı | 6'1" | 185 cm |
| 20 | Tolgahan Sayışman | 6'1" | 185 cm |
| 21 | Öner Erkan | 6'1" | 185 cm |
| 22 | Burak Özçivit | 6'0.5" | 184 cm |
| 23 | Metin Akdülger | 6'0.5" | 184 cm |
| 24 | Alperen Duymaz | 6'0.5" | 184 cm |
| 25 | Fırat Çelik | 6'0.5" | 184 cm |
| 26 | Birkan Sokollu | 6'0.5" | 184 cm |
| 27 | Kıvanç Kasabalı | 6'0" | 183 cm |
| 28 | Okan Yalabık | 6'0" | 183 cm |
| 29 | Engin Altan Düzyatan | 6'0" | 183 cm |
| 30 | Engin Öztürk | 5'11.5" | 182 cm |
| 31 | Uğur Güneş | 5'11.5" | 182 cm |
| 32 | Kaan Urgancıoğlu | 5'11.5" | 182 cm |
| 33 | Berkay Ateş | 5'11" | 180 cm |
| 34 | Ozan Dolunay | 5'11" | 180 cm |
| 35 | Ushan Çakır | 5'11" | 180 cm |
| 36 | Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu | 5'11" | 180 cm |
| 37 | Salih Bademci | 5'10.5" | 179 cm |
| 38 | Kaan Taşaner | 5'10" | 178 cm |
| 39 | Ruhi Sarı | 5'10" | 178 cm |
| 40 | Uğur Aslan | 5'10" | 178 cm |
| 41 | Mert Yazıcıoğlu | 5'10" | 178 cm |
| 42 | İlker Kaleli | 5'9.5" | 177 cm |
| 43 | Burak Deniz | 5'9.5" | 177 cm |
| 44 | Murat Yıldırım | 5'9.5" | 177 cm |
| 45 | Sarp Apak | 5'9" | 176 cm |
| 46 | Taner Ölmez | 5'9" | 175 cm |
| 47 | Yiğit Özşener | 5'9" | 175 cm |
| 48 | Burak Tozkoparan | 5'9" | 175 cm |
| 49 | Sercan Badur | 5'9" | 175 cm |
| 50 | Tolga Sarıtaş | 5'9" | 175 cm |
* Disputed figure — see notes below.
Standouts Worth Knowing
Furkan Palalı (193 cm) is the most reliably sourced tallest Turkish actor, known internationally for his role in Kızılcık Şerbeti. Şükrü Özyıldız and Furkan Andıç tie just behind him at 191 cm — Özyıldız built his global following through Aşk Laftan Anlamaz (Kara Para Aşk), while Andıç is a familiar face from Çocuk.
Can Yaman, at 188 cm, is arguably Turkey's biggest global crossover star, with a fan base spanning Italy and Latin America built on Erkenci Kuş and Bay Yanlış. Just below him, Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ (187 cm per Turkish Wikipedia) remains one of the industry's most recognizable names worldwide thanks to Kuzey Güney and Çukur — even though, as noted above, his exact height has more than one figure in circulation.
Burak Özçivit (184 cm), globally known for Kuruluş: Osman, and Engin Altan Düzyatan (183 cm), the face of Diriliş: Ertuğrul, anchor the historical-epic genre that's driven a huge share of dizi's international growth — both figures agree across Turkish Wikipedia and a mainstream media gallery, making them among the more trustworthy entries on this list.
The Shortest Turkish Actors We Could Verify
Unlike the tallest-actor category — fed by regular tabloid "height gallery" articles — almost no Turkish media outlet runs a dedicated "shortest actors" ranking, and several of Turkey's biggest leading men (Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ aside) simply have no publicized figure below the mid-170s. Here's every name we could verify with an actual sourced height:
| Rank (shortest first) | Actor | Height (ft/in) | Height (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mehmet Günsür | 5'7" | 170 cm |
| 1 | Mert Fırat | 5'7" | 170 cm |
| 3 | Buğra Gülsoy | 5'8" | 173 cm |
| 4 | Rıza Kocaoğlu | 5'8.5" | 174 cm |
| 5 | Engin Günaydın* | 5'9" | 175 cm |
| 5 | Taner Ölmez | 5'9" | 175 cm |
| 5 | Yiğit Özşener | 5'9" | 175 cm |
| 5 | Tolga Sarıtaş | 5'9" | 175 cm |
| 5 | Sercan Badur | 5'9" | 175 cm |
| 5 | Burak Tozkoparan | 5'9" | 175 cm |
* One source lists Engin Günaydın at 170 cm instead of 175 cm — flagged, not resolved.
We found no verifiable Turkish dizi actor under 170 cm — not because shorter actors don't work in Turkish television, but because their heights simply aren't tracked by the same tabloid-gallery format that documents the taller end of the industry so thoroughly.
A Note on Disputed Heights
Four names on these lists have genuinely conflicting sources, and we'd rather show you both numbers than quietly pick one:
- Onur Tuna — 196 cm per an uncited English Wikipedia infobox, vs. 185 cm in a Hürriyet gallery. An 11 cm gap is large enough that we'd treat the Wikipedia figure with real caution.
- Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ — 187 cm per Turkish Wikipedia vs. 190 cm per a Hürriyet gallery.
- Engin Akyürek — 187 cm per a Hürriyet/Mahmure gallery vs. 190–191 cm reported elsewhere.
- Halit Ergenç — 185 cm per Turkish Wikipedia vs. 188 cm per a Hürriyet gallery.
If you spot a more authoritative source for any of these, the gap is worth resolving — but we'd rather publish an honest range than a confident-sounding wrong number.
Why Turkish Actor Heights Are So Well Documented
Two things make this list possible where equivalent lists for some other film industries genuinely aren't: Turkish tabloid and lifestyle media (Hürriyet, Habertürk, Ensonhaber, and others) run "dizi oyuncularının boyları" (heights of drama actors) gallery articles as a recurring content format, the same way American entertainment sites run "celebrities you didn't know were short" roundups — and Turkish Wikipedia culture tends to include a height field for working actors far more consistently than English Wikipedia does for equivalent international stars. Neither guarantees precision, but together they produce far more data points than most national television industries have publicly available.
See How You Compare
Reading "193 cm" as a number is one thing — seeing it standing next to your own height is another. Our free Height Comparison Tool lets you add any of these actors by exact height and see the real visual gap, switch between cm and feet/inches, and share the result with a link.
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Frequently Asked Questions
1. Who is the tallest Turkish actor?
Furkan Palalı, at 193 cm (6'4"), has the tallest reliably sourced height. Onur Tuna is sometimes cited at 196 cm, but that figure is uncited and conflicts with another source placing him at 185 cm.
2. How tall is Can Yaman?
188 cm (6'2"), per Turkish Wikipedia — one of the more consistently reported figures on this list.
3. How tall is Burak Özçivit?
184 cm (6'0.5"), agreed upon by both Turkish Wikipedia and a mainstream media height gallery, making it one of the more trustworthy figures here.
4. Who is the shortest Turkish actor?
Mehmet Günsür and Mert Fırat are tied at the shortest verified height, 170 cm (5'7"), though both rest on a single tabloid source without independent confirmation.
5. Is Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ's height really 187 cm?
That's the Turkish Wikipedia figure, but a separate media gallery lists him at 190 cm. Like several major stars on this list, there isn't a single universally agreed number.
6. Why are so few short Turkish actors documented?
Turkish media runs regular "tallest actor" gallery content but rarely an equivalent "shortest actor" ranking, so shorter actors' heights simply aren't tracked and published as consistently as taller actors' are.
7. Are these heights official measurements?
No — most trace back to modeling-agency profiles (via Wikipedia) or tabloid estimates (via media galleries), not a certified record. Treat them as the best publicly available figures, not verified measurements.
8. Can I compare my own height to these actors?
Yes — our free Height Comparison Tool lets you add any actor by name and exact height and see the comparison drawn to scale instantly.
Final Thoughts
Turkish dizi's global boom has made its leading men some of the most-watched actors on the planet, and — unusually for an international television industry — also some of the best-documented by height, thanks to Turkey's own tabloid gallery culture. Furkan Palalı, Şükrü Özyıldız, and Can Yaman anchor the tall end with genuinely solid sourcing; the shortest end of the list is thinner, not because short actors are rare, but because nobody's writing that story as often.
Curious how you'd measure up next to Can Yaman or Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ? Try our free Height Comparison Tool to see it drawn to scale.