Pelin Karahan

Vildan Pelin Karahan is a Turkish actress. Pelin Karahan was born in Ankara, Turkey, to Bayram Ali Karahan and Nural Koçyigit. Her maternal grandmother is an Albanian immigrant. Karahan attended Ari College Elementary School, and completed middle school partly at Ankara Gaziosmanpasa Primary School, partly at Ödemis Primary School. She graduated from the Lyceum of Sokollu Mehmet Pasa and then from the School of Tourism Enterprises at Anadolu University. At the start of her career, Karahan featured in Coca-Cola Light and Carrefour advertisements. She played the role of Asli Zeybek in the teen drama television series Kavak Yelleri (2007), broadcast on Turkish TV channel Kanal D from 2007 to 2011. In 2012, she was signed up to appear in the popular TV series The Magnificent Century (2011) as Mihrimah Sultan, which is about the life of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She is host of "Bir Evde" animal programming and "Nefis Tarifler" cooking programming. Pelin was married to fitness instructor Erdinç Bekiroglu from 2011 until 2013. On 24 June 2014, she married Bedri Güntay. She gave birth to their son, Ali Demir, in December 2014. A second son named Can Eyüp was born in March 2017.