İlyas Salman

İlyas Salman (born 14 January 1949) is a Turkish actor, film director, author, screenwriter and musician.

He shared the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival's Best Actor Award in 2012 together with Engin Günaydın.

He participated at Communist Party of Turkey's rally in Kartal on 1 May 2006.

[7] As of 1 October 2009, he wanted to start performing a show called "Karanfil Kokuyor Cıgaram" where he would read the poems from the book "Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim" by Ahmed Arif in Bakırköy Art Center.

However, due to some temporary health problems of İlyas Salman, the program was postponed for a while.