He received a Golden Butterfly Award for Best Actor in a Romantic Comedy in 2018 for his role in Erkenci Kuş as well as Murex d'Or in 2019.
By the time he was 24, Yaman was working in mergers and acquisitions and writing articles for the tax section of Dünya newspaper.
While on summer leave from work, Yaman travelled to Bodrum where he met his eventual and current acting managers, Cüneyt Sayıl and İlker Bilgi.
He then wen onto play a leading role of "Francesco Demir" in the all-Italian series Viola come il mare, which first season start shooting in 2021.
The first series was so successful that season 2 was shot following year and aired both on Mediaset platform and further Canale 5 drawing on average 3.6-4M total viewers per episode.
In winter 2022 Can Yaman shot international series El Turco starring Greta Ferro, Willian Kemp, Slavko Sobin and many other well known European actors.
The series features several well known Hollywood actors and is expected to be previewed in Venice Film festival (2025 edition)[15] In June 2024 Can Yaman has deleted his 11 million follower Instagram account.