Kurtuluş was born in Uşak Turkey and moved at the age of 18 months to Germany where he grew up with his brother Tekin in Salzgitter Lower Saxony He performed several minor television roles in episodes of different TV shows and continued working in theater until his bigscreen debut in his main role as the young Turkish boy Gabriel in Fatih Akıns filmKurz und schmerzlos Short Sharp Shock After his breakthrough he appeared in the successful TV miniseries Der Tunnel of Roland Suso Richter where he performed alongside Heino Ferch and Nicolette Krebitz Doris Dörrie chose him for her sex comedy Naked He went back to working in television with the love film Eine Liebe in Saigon Love in Saigon with Luxembourgian actress Désirée Nosbusch to whom Kurtuluş is engaged Kurtuluş played the main detective role in six episodes of the cult German television series Tatort He announced afterwards that he would be working on international projects From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia