Kulkan Erdenet

* 2024
* 2020

**Kulkan Erdenet** is a fictional character in the television series Çukur, played by Genco Özak.

## Biography

Kulkan is Cengiz Erdenet's youngest son. Kulkan is the brother of Ogeday, and half-brother of Çağatay and Arık Böke Erdenet. He is the only survivor of the Erdenet Family.

After saving Cengiz from Yamaç Koçovalı, he kidnaps Yamaç's former lover and child's mother Nehir. Cengiz leaves Nehir in the room, where Yamaç's lover Efsun is held hostage. He then asks Yamaç two riddles, and the answer to the riddles is where Nehir and Efsun are held. He leaves Efsun to a tombstone factory and Nehir to the warehouse of a theater hall. Aliço, Cumali Koçovalı, and Metin set out to find Nehir, and Celasun, Meke, and Medet set out to find Efsun. Later, many people in the neighborhood die as Kulkan adds poison to the water supply.

Yamaç kidnaps Ogeday, steals Cengiz's money and leaves them somewhere. He asks Kulkan and Cengiz a riddle. Cengiz goes to save his money, and Kulkan goes to save Ogeday, and as a result of the trap set by Yamaç, Kulkan kills his brother Ogeday. Kulkan and Çağatay tell the place of Cengiz to the Koçovalı Family and Cengiz dies. He kidnapped Efsun, who was expelled from the house by Sultan Koçovalı, and he delivered Efsun to Nizam. He tells the location of Çağatay to Yamaç, then Yamaç, Cumali and Akın kills Çağatay.

Kulkan collaborates with Uncle Cumali and kidnaps Yamaç, and says he took him to Afghanistan, but in fact, it is Evrenpaşa village. He torments Yamaç for years and wipes the Çukur tattoo. During his time in Evrenpaşa, Kulkan records a video on his phone, and says that if this video is watched by Vartolu, it means that he is dead. He goes on to reveal that he was 'forced to take Yamaç to Afghanistan by Uncle Cumali'. Kulkan sends this video to his laptop kept in Cenk's house.

Years have passed and Uncle Cumali has captured all of Kulkan's money. Kulkan starts working in a bar. Yamaç returns to Çukur, and decides to find Kulkan to get his revenge. Yamaç and Vartolu arrive at the bar Kulkan works in, and they run after him. Kulkan is captured. Just before Kulkan gets killed in the hands of Yamaç, Kulkan decides to negotiate with him. He states that he will reveal Efsun's whereabouts if he is kept alive. Yamaç agrees, and the two set off to the bar Efsun is supposedly at. However, Efsun is not seen by the two, and so Kulkan realises that Efsun has to be at Nizam's house. Yamaç heads to Nizam's house with Kulkan, and stabs Kulkan's leg in the car. Kulkan, who is in a lot of pain due to this, decides to escape. He starts the engine of the car by bypassing the ignition system. This allows him to drive off with the car.

He arrives at Nedim's house, and he demands Nedim to take him to Uncle Cumali. Once Kulkan faces with Uncle Cumali, he declares that he must be kept alive. When Uncle Cumali asks him why, Kulkan says that if he dies, Yamaç will figure out that Kulkan is working for Uncle Cumali. Kulkan also states that he goes to visit Cenk everyday for the video on the laptop, and if there is a day that he doesn't visit him, it means that he is dead and the video is sent to Vartolu. This would result in Cenk to tell Vartolu that Kulkan works for Uncle Cumali. Also, Kulkan asks Uncle Cumali to book a hotel for him as he has nowhere to go, and Uncle Cumali does so. The next morning after İdris Koçovalı Jr's circumcision festival, Uncle Cumali arrives at Kulkan's doorstep with Nedim. He asks Kulkan if he did anything to Yamaç that he didn't tell Uncle Cumali about, and he says that he tortured Yamaç and made him forget his name.

A few weeks later, Kulkan visits Cenk. Kulkan wants to escape to Latin America with Cenk. Due to this, Kulkan explains to Cenk that Yamaç will come after the two, so they must be prepared if they want to live and fulfill their dreams. Kulkan explains to Cenk that he will obtain the money for the Latin America flight from Uncle Cumali. However, Cenk is killed in a car crash a few days later, and this leaves Kulkan to go to Latin America on his own. As a result, Uncle Cumali visits Kulkan and brings two suitcases with money inside. However, Karaca sees this.

Akın finds Kulkan's location and notifies Yamaç. While Yamaç and Efsun were busy chasing Kulkan, he climbed to the roof of a building, but he saw that the masked man was there. He was thrown from the top of building by the Masked Man, and Efsun saw him fall to the ground. He was shot in the head and killed by Efsun.

Two weeks later, Ferhat finds the password for the laptop and discovers Kulkan's video and shows Yamaç. Yamaç shows this video to Vartolu.

## Quotes

* "Sen ne biçim bir yaratıksın?"
* "Hoş geldiniz Çoçovalılar! Bu etapta sizlere ben eşlik edeceğim. Birde adın neydi lan senin?"
* "Biraz hızlı gitmiyor muyuz? Önce asl (aleyküm selam) sonra nbr (naber). Yatak en son."
* "Cenk! Sahibin nerede oğlum?"
* "Ya ne Yamaç'mış amına koyayım! Napayım baba ben bunu geri mi götüreyim şimdi?"
* "Ben ölürsem Yamaç her şeyi öğrenir."