Ethem Özışık

Ethem Özışık (b. 22 November 1977, Germany) is a Turkish television series and movie screenwriter. He made his name known most with the TV series Poyraz Karayel; With this work, he won the best screenwriter award at Altın Kelebek. Söz, Maraşlı, Teşkilat and Eşref Rüya are among the productions he wrote.

He was born in Germany and completed his primary and secondary education in Izmit. For his higher education, he entered the Radio-Television-Cinema department of Marmara University Faculty of Communication and graduated from there in 2005. After working in different jobs for a while, he turned to screenwriting.

Screenwriting career

He started his career with youth TV series; His first works include I'll Tell You a Secret and Fish Tired of Water. He made his breakthrough with Poyraz Karayel, which was released in 2013. The series, which brings together crime and humor, brought him the best screenwriter award at the 42nd Golden Butterfly Awards in 2015.

The story of the series was later brought to the cinema under the name Poyraz Karayel: Global Capital, and Poyraz Karayel was also published as a book.

Then he took over the script of the military-themed TV series Söz; In the following years, he was nominated for best screenwriter at Altın Kelebek. He wrote Maraşlı in 2020 and Teşkilat, which is about the intelligence world, in 2021. He wrote the script of Eşref Rüya, which started broadcasting in 2025, together with Lokman Maral.

Özışık is among the productive TV series writers of the last decade with his works that combine action and drama elements with a narrative that appeals to a wide audience.