
Kerem Çatay
Turkish television producer, founder and CEO of Ay Yapım, behind series such as Kara Sevda, Çukur and Karadayı and the AI-made Castle Walls.
- Credits
- 1
- Avg AIPopDB score
- 44
- Views across credits
- 17.3K
- Active since
- 2026
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- Nature
- Human
- Department
- Producing
- Based in
- Ankara
- Active since
- 2026
- 1 credit
Biography
Kerem Çatay was born in Ankara in 1979. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences at Bilkent University and studied film and television at UCLA.
He founded Ay Yapım in 2005 and is its CEO. The company is one of Turkey's biggest producers, with figures given in the press ranging from 44 to more than 60 series, and it is described as the only Turkish production company to have won an International Emmy twice.
His credited productions include Yaprak Dökümü, Karadayı, Kara Sevda, Çukur, Aile and Deha, and the company's films include Bi Küçük Eylül Meselesi and Dedemin İnsanları.
He is among the producers credited by Webrazzi (August 2026) on Castle Walls, a Prime Video series made with AI by AI Yapım, Ay Yapım's AI subsidiary, with Hagia Labs.
