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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 August 2025)
Straight out of central casting.
Ufuk Bayraktar (43), who plays the role of the young roughneck
Ramiz Dayı (Uncle Ramiz) in the "Ezel" TV show, tried to extort
protection money from a restaurant in the Firüzağa neighborhood
of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, last week. When Bayraktar returned to the
restaurant the day before yesterday, his actions were secretly
recorded along with these words: "Our neighborhood youths
should get 10,000 TL per week. That's nothing, table-wiping
money."
Upon the restaurant owner's police complaint, Bayraktar and
Volkan Akbaş were taken into custody. The two were processed
at the Istanbul courthouse in Çağlayan, charged with extortion
but freed on judicial supervision.
Subsequently, Bayraktar posted this on his social media account:
"My dispute with the business next to mine ended up at the
police station. He accused me of wanting protection money.
His place is about 30 meters from the tea garden I own, and we've
been neighbors for 7-8 years. Our elders are friends, too. Over
the past few months, my relationship with my neighbor has been
distorted in the media. Up to now, I have never tried to get the
slightest thing from anyone that didn't belong to me."
However (!), in 2007 Bayraktar was sentenced for using an
unlicensed gun that belonged to his father in an altercation. He
finally went to prison in August 2018 and was released in March
2019.
Takes his work home from the TV film set.
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