Can Yaman also at Sanremo. Taking the Ariston stage alongside Carlo Conti and Laura Pausini on Tuesday, February 24th, the festival's first night, will be the 36-year-old Turkish actor, fresh from the success of "Sandokan," the Rai1 drama starring him as Emilio Salgari's hero, fifty years after the famous series starring Kabir Bedi and directed by Sergio Sollima. The drama averaged over 5.4 million viewers and a 30.8% share.

Carlo Conti dropped the hint, posting a meme on his Instagram profile featuring himself as Sandokan, with the caption "Carlokan" and a single word in the post, "co-co." Then came the official confirmation from Rai.

Born in Istanbul on November 8, 1989, known to Italian audiences for his roles in Rai series such as "Che Dio ci aiuti 6", but also "Viola come il mare" and "Il Turco", broadcast on Canale 5 , Yaman is currently busy, for the first time, filming in Spain the series "El laberinto de las mariposas", a romantic thriller, directed by Alberto Ruiz Rojo and Iñaki Peñafiel. He will soon return to the set for the second season of "Sandokan".

The actor was recently at the center of a news story: arrested in Istanbul during an anti-drug operation, which included raids on several nightclubs in the city, he was immediately released. The next day, he posted on social media a photo taken in Rome, with the Colosseum in the background: "The Turkish press is being mean to me, but this is nothing new! Please don't make the same mistake of copying and pasting the news coming from the Bosphorus," he wrote. "Do you really think I'm hanging around clubs with drugs during a time when the police are conducting widespread investigations and arresting many famous people? If that were even remotely true, I wouldn't have been released so quickly and able to return to Italy the next day. I love you all ."

(Unioneonline/D)

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