Azer Kurtuluş

* 2019
* 2012

**Azer Kurtuluş** is a fictional character in the television series Çukur, played by Cihangir Ceyhan.

## Biography

Azer is a drug manufacturer. In 2012, he arrived in İstanbul from Adana to sell drugs. After the murder of his brother Savaş, he came to the neighborhood to hold an account. Later, thanks to Karaca Koçovalı, he makes peace with the Koçovalı Family. Azer normally lives in Adana. However, he comes to Istanbul when his brother Savaş is killed by Yücel and his men. When Savaş was killed in Salih's pavilion, Timsah Celil went there and saw the body of Savaş and Salih in front of him, informing Azer. Azer thinks that it is the Koçovalı men who killed his brother and declares war on them. When İdris confronted Azer and said that Salih did not kill his brother, he asked the Koçovalı men for five million lira blood money. Thereupon, the Koçovalı men equal the money and give it to Azer. Azer burns the money, and he declares that he has tried them and will take revenge. The Koçovalı men raided Timsah Celil's place and killed all his men. Celil falls under the auspices of Azer. Meanwhile, Yücel offers Azer to unite against the Koçovalı men, but Azer refuses. Azer gets angry after Meke and Celasun stole Azer's cars and sold them to a scrap dealer, and then blew up his warehouse.

He beats Celasun and Meke to death. He follows Meke and Celasun, who were brought to the hospital by Kemal and Metin, and shoots them both in front of the hospital. Later, Yamaç finds Azer in the gym to report the situation again. Whatever Azer tells Yamaç, he says that nothing will change, he will take his revenge, and a fight breaks out between them. Although Azer refused to cooperate with Yücel at first, he later reconciled with him. Meanwhile, Yücel invites Baykal's daughter Efsun, who wants to take revenge on the Koçovalı Family, as a source of money. Although Yücel tells Azer that he will finish the Koçovalı's for a day, he is trapped by Yamaç and sentenced to fire in a building with his hands tied. After being rescued by Akın, Yücel returns to Azer's side. Making plans with Celil, Efsun and Yücel, Azer succeeds in including Akın Koçovalı in this play. Azer starts using Akın in the drug business. Akın becomes the leader of the Çukur at that time because the Koçovans were in prison. He sets up a craft workshop in the neighborhood and puts drugs inside the small sculptures and gives it to Azer to sell.

Meanwhile, Karaca and Damla do their best to ruin Akin's plans. Azer takes the money from Victor with whom he is trading and tells Akin to make the delivery. Akın makes the delivery, but when he is leaving, his path is cut and he sees that the goods he gives are pearl beads. Akın puts the blame on Azer to save Karaca. Victor and his men go after Azer. Azer returned to Adana at that time. Taking advantage of this, Akın sends Remzi to Adana to bring Victor and Azer against each other and has Azer's house burned. Knowing this from Victor, Azer, when he returns to İstanbul for revenge, throws an axe into Victor's chest and kills his men. Azer's war with the Koçovalı's continues. Yamaç calls Azer and says he wants to end this war alone, and Azer accepts it. After reaching the position to meet, Azer is kidnapped and beaten by Fatih's men. Fatih got angry with Azer for killing Victor and collapsing into money. He told him to kidnap all his brothers and bring the money and property. He stuck to Akın's collar to find Azerbaijani goods. However, Akın lied to Azer, saying that he did not know the location of the property. Azer kidnaps Karaca and tells him to give Akın the property and take his brother. Selim comes into play and gives the goods and takes Karaca. Azer takes the goods and money to Fatih and takes his brothers. Continuing his war with the Koçovalı's, Azer kidnaps all the girls in the Koçova neighborhood by using Bülent, where Yamaç and the others collapsed.

Meanwhile, he puts his brother Kadir at the head of one of Bülent's men. The men of Çukur, who followed Kadir, capture Kadir. Meanwhile, Kemal, who sacrificed himself to save the girls, falls into Azer's hands. There is an exchange between the two and Azer takes his brother and Yamaç takes Kemal. Later, Yamaç raided Bulent's house, but they were ambushed by Azer and his men. Yamaç's ammo is finished and he stands in front of Azer. While Azer wants to shoot Yamaç, Kemal jumps in front of Yamaç and sacrifices himself. After Kemal dies, Yamaç kills Azer's brother Kadir as revenge. After Yamaç killed Kadir, Azer had his men shot his brother Cumali Koçovalı in front of Yamaç. With the help of Efsun, Azer says that they will join together with all the mafia of Istanbul and take part in the war against Yamaç.

After Azer's mother Fadik met with the Sultan to stop the war, Karaca comes to Azer's house as a guest and acts as an ambassador. Azer is forced to act peacefully for a while, at the request of his mother. Later, Azer and Karaca fall in love with each other and Karaca runs away to Azer and decide to marry. On the day of the wedding, Sultan Hanım tells Karaca that she is one of the killers of her grandfather, and Karaca kills her with a gun, with the gun she received from the Sultan, for the wedding night and the revenge of her grandfather. Azer dies.