Samancılar was born on 1 May 1954 in Adana and is of Kurdish descent. [1 ] He won the first prize in a photonovel competition organized by a newspaper in 1974.
Menderes Samancılar, který se ujal slova po prezidentu Zeydanovi Karalarovi, řekl: „Letos je na jedné straně nás smutek. Omlouváme se také za ztráty způsobené pandemií.