Selim Bayraktar (born 17 June 1975) is an Iraqi-Turkish actor best known for his role as "Sümbül Ağa" in Muhteşem Yüzyıl.
He received international recognition with his role in the Netflix original series Rise of Empires: Ottoman.
Bayraktar was born in Kirkuk, Iraq, in 1975, to Iraqi Turkmen parents.
During the final days of the Iran-Iraq War, a body double of Sadam Hussein visited Bayraktar's school in order to recruit boys into the army; when Bayraktar was chosen to serve in the army his family decided to smuggle him into Turkey.
[4] He started working at the Turkish State Theatre after graduating from Hacettepe University in 2000.