Barbaros Hayrettin Binicioğlu was born on July 20, 1962 and is a politician and actor. After graduating from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Civil Engineering as a civil engineer in 1983, he worked in the establishment projects of Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia and as a site manager in Mecca. In 1986, he continued to work as a civil engineer at TAI in Ankara on the F-16 aircraft project.
Binicioğlu, who settled in Yalova in 1986, started to pursue his political life in addition to his professional activities in the same year, and took an active role in the management level of a party in 1989. In addition to election board membership, ballot box responsibility and various district-provincial board duties, he was elected as Yalova Municipal Council Member in the 1994 local elections and served in multiple council positions such as zoning commission, municipal council clerk and environment commission.
Binicioğlu, who ran for mayor from Çiftlikköy in 1999, was elected as the Mayor of Yalova as the AK Party candidate in the 2004 local elections, and during this period, he took on foreign representative duties in EU projects. In the election in which he competed from the Democratic Party in 2009, he lost to Yakup Bilgin Koçal by 1000 votes, and then he was not nominated as a candidate in the 2014 and 2019 elections. He currently serves as the Democratic Party's deputy chairman in charge of local governments.
He started his acting career by portraying twin characters named Eşref Geçmez and Sami Geçmez in the TV series "Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu" between 2011 and 2014; He explained to the press that his experience in these roles paralleled his life. Binicioğlu, who is married and the father of two children, speaks English and basic Arabic. His wife, Feride Binicioğlu, is a painter who graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Painting.
Productions in which he took part
- Valley of the Wolves: Ambush (2007) — Sami Bey
- Henna Lambs (2006)
- Braveheart (2016) — Şamil
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
