Famous Turkish actor Cüneyt Arkın died Tuesday at the age of 85, hospital sources said.
The actor, who gave the Turkish Yeşilçam movie industry many blockbusters, died at a hospital in Istanbul where he was taken after he suffered a cardiac arrest at home.
The veteran actor, whose real name was Fahrettin Cüreklibatur, was born in 1937 in the central Eskişehir province and acted in over 300 movies.
A graduate of Istanbul Medical School, Arkın left his job as a physician and became a leading figure of the Yeşilçam.
