About Ayhan Işık Ayhan Işık, born Ayhan Işıyan (5 May 1929 İzmir, 16 June 1979 Istanbul) was a popular Turkish film actor. He was the most popular lead man of Turkish cinema between 1952 and 1979.He was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1929. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1953. He started to work as a painter and a graphic designer. In 1951 he took part in a competition and came together on screen with Belgin Doruk, a leading lady of the Turkish cinema of the time, which launched a film career which would last for over two decades. He acted in more than 200 movies. He also released two records titled "Doğdum Çile Çekmek İçin" (Born to Suffer) & "Gönül Belası" (Misfortune of Love). He died of a brain hemorrhage in Istanbul in 1979.