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Meriç Aral

Turkish actor (born 1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ47499826 ↗
Source-derived summary

Meriç Aral (born 17 November 1988) is a Turkish actress. After studying law, she started acting and became known with her role as Hale in Medcezir. She has taken part in various cinema and television productions.

Life and career

Aral was born on 17 November 1988, to parents who were lawyers. She graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University School of Law, but also minored in comparative literature. She started acting after passing an internship. She worked as a film assistant for a short time. Aral made her television debut in the series Sultan and started to study acting. She rose to prominence with her role as Hale in Medcezir. Then he played in the movie Unutursam Fısılda, directed by Çağan Irmak.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Meriç Aral” as turkish actor (born 1988). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1988-01-01, 1990-07-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Meriç, Aral and Turkish can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as turkish actor (born 1988). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47499826. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Meriç Aral” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.