Necati Şaşmaz a.k.a Polat Alemdar & Murad Alamdar

Necati Şaşmaz a.k.a. "Polat Alemdar"

Muhammed Necati Şaşmaz was born in Elazığ in 1971. He finished his education in Canada. His real profession is on tourism. He had lived in U.S.A for six years. In 2001 he came to Turkey to visit his family for a short while. However, when he visited his family for a while in 2001. Date of his return ticket was 11th September of 2001 coincidentally. Because of septemer 11th attacks the plane that was carrying him had to account for return back to Turkey. These events made his family nervous so they leaned on him not to go back U.S.A again and he decided to stay in Turkey. This decision was the turning point of his life.
After this he started his own business in Turkey and open an insurance agency in Ankara. After a short time he had a job interview with Osman Sınav a famous movie maker. He expected that Osman Sınav was offered him to be a scenarist of one of his production. However, surprisingly he met with an offer that set him down for leading role of a TV series. After a month he accepted the offer. Acting Polat Alemdar in Kurtlar Vadisi one of the most famous TV series of Turkey was the offer.

This is the story that has initiated Necati Şaşmaz’s acting career and made him one of the most popular actor in Turkey.

Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu

His movies and TV series can be listed as Kurtlar Vadisi,Kurtlar Vadisi Irak(Valley Of The Wolves in Iraq), Kurtlar Vadisi Terör, Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu
and he acted teh same character in all of them. In all these movie he plays a secret agent whose mission is to collapse the mafia is working for state-within-a-state. Polat’s behaviours, statements became very popular in a short time and the character became an idol among the young people in Turkey. The fact that nowadays it is very common to see people who act, wear and talk like Polat Alemdar.

Polat Alemdar is also very popular among Arabic and Middle East Countries and Coloumbia, he is know as “Murad Alamdar” in translated series. The series crashes ratings , and his popularity is in a rapid increase. He is definitely a hero in Middle East.