Who is Devrim Özkan’s boyfriend in 2026? Romance and Breakups

Introduction

Devrim Özkan’s love life has been tabloid fodder for years, a public breakup with a Galatasaray footballer, an old cheating scandal, and now a fresh romance rumor with her Yeraltı co-star. Here is everything confirmed, and everything still just a rumor, in one place.

Quick Overview

• Status: She has not officially confirmed that she is dating anyone.
• There are rumors that she is dating Deniz Can Aktaş, her co-star from Yeraltı. Although there is strong circumstantial evidence, neither of them has commented on the rumors.
• Last confirmed relationship: Lucas Torreira (Galatasaray). They were together on and off from March 2023 to around August or September 2025.
• Most-discussed past scandal: In 2021, a cheating allegation involving her ex-boyfriend Halit Özgür Sarı surfaced.
• Recurring pattern: Most of her rumored or confirmed partners have been athletes rather than actors. Aktaş is an exception.

Devrim Özkan Bio and Quick Facts

Bio	Facts
Full name	Devrim Özkan
Age/birthdate	27 — born September 2, 1998, in Muğla, Turkey
Grew up in	Milas and Bodrum, Turkey
Profession	Actress (television and stage)
Education	Studied at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University’s School of Fine Arts; left after her first year to pursue acting
Career start	TV series Rüya
Notable roles	Vatanım Sensin, Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî, Ramo, Vuslat (lead role, two seasons), Çift Kişilik Oda, Yeraltı (as Halide Ceylan)
Known for now	Playing Halide Ceylan in Yeraltı, one of Turkish TV’s biggest current dramas
Last confirmed relationship	Footballer Lucas Torreira (Galatasaray)
Currently rumored with	Deniz Can Aktaş, her Yeraltı co-star
Official confirmation from Özkan	None
Notable trivia	Spent seven years as a competitive athlete before switching to acting

Devrim Özkan Dating History

Here is the fuller picture where each relationship started, how it ended, and why, with confirmed relationships kept clearly separate from rumors and denials. Some dates are best estimates, since not every relationship was announced with an exact start or end date.

Worth flagging: the athlete-linked rumors (Icardi, Brajkovic, Ağva) come from lighter tabloid sourcing than the Torreira and Sarı relationships, both of which Özkan addressed in her own words.

Halit Özgür Sarı

• Where they met: Co-stars on the series Yabani
• Started: Reported sometime before 2021
• Ended: May 2021
• Why: Özkan said in a public Instagram Q&A that he’d cheated on her with a close friend, later identified in rumors as İlayda Alişan

Mauro Icardi

• Where they met: Reportedly, a nightclub sighting
• Started: 2022 (rumor only)
• Ended: 2022
• Why: Never a real relationship — Özkan denied it right away

Lucas Torreira

• Where they met: Through football — Özkan is a longtime Galatasaray fan and regular match-goer; Torreira plays for Galatasaray
• Started: March 2023, went public that summer during a Miami trip
• Ended: On-and-off — first split Jan 2024, reconciled Aug 2024, split again early 2025, final split around Aug–Sep 2025
• Why: Reported jealousy crises and career-related arguments; Torreira himself later said it came down to timing and “career priorities,” not a lack of love

Trévor Clevenot

• Where they met: Unclear — surfaced as a sighting, no reported introduction story
• Started: August 2024 (rumor only)
• Ended: August 2024
• Why: Never confirmed as a relationship — Özkan called it “just friends”

Luka Brajkovic

• Where they met: Unclear — rumor began from a Valentine’s Day flower delivery she posted
• Started: February 2025 (rumor only)
• Ended: Faded without confirmation
• Why: Never confirmed as a relationship by either side

Mahir Ağva

• Where they met: Reportedly introduced through a mutual friend group
• Started: Around March 2025 (rumor only)
• Ended: Faded without confirmation
• Why: Never confirmed as a relationship; the two reportedly preferred to keep it private

Deniz Can Aktaş

• Where they met: Co-stars on Yeraltı
• Started: Rumors began in early 2026
• Ended: Ongoing, unresolved
• Why: N/A — still an open story, covered in full below

Worth flagging: the athlete-linked rumors (Icardi, Brajkovic, Ağva) come from lighter tabloid sourcing than the Torreira and Sarı relationships, both of which Özkan addressed in her own words.

Why Is She Always Linked With Athletes?

Look at the list again, and a pattern jumps out: Torreira (football), the Icardi rumor (football), Brajkovic (basketball), and Ağva (basketball).

Four of her most talked-about relationships, whether rumored or confirmed, involve professional athletes, not fellow actors.

That is unusual even by Turkish celebrity standards, so it is worth asking how these connections actually came about.

• She is a genuine, longtime Galatasaray fan. This is the clearest answer for at least one relationship: multiple outlets report that Özkan attends Galatasaray matches regularly as a fan, not just as a footballer’s girlfriend, and that this match-going habit is specifically cited as how she and Torreira, a Galatasaray player, first crossed paths.
• Istanbul’s celebrity and sports-star social scenes overlap constantly. Actors and athletes in Turkey frequently turn up at the same restaurants, nightclubs, and events, which is exactly how the (denied) Icardi rumor started: a reported nightclub sighting, nothing more.
• Mutual friend circles do a lot of the matchmaking. Regarding her rumored relationship with basketball player Mahir Ağva, Turkish reporting specifically describes the two as having met through a shared friend group and choosing early on to keep things private rather than announce it.
• A single public gesture can spark a rumor on its own. The Brajkovic link began almost entirely from a Valentine’s Day flower delivery Özkan shared on Instagram, enough for fans to connect the dots even without any other visible contact between them.

The bigger-picture reason this pattern gets so much attention is that sports media and entertainment media both cover these stories, which means an actress dating an athlete gets double the tabloid coverage that a same-industry couple would.

That is also exactly why the Deniz Can Aktaş rumor, her first widely covered link to a fellow actor rather than an athlete, has felt like a change of pace for outlets used to writing about her love life through a sports lens.

Lucas Torreira: The Full Story

The list above shows the important dates, but here is the story behind them. Özkan and Lucas Torreira, the Uruguayan footballer for Galatasaray, were a favorite topic in Turkish celebrity media for more than two years. Their relationship included public appearances, a visit to Torreira’s hometown in Uruguay that sparked marriage rumors, and finally, a messy public breakup.

According to Turkish entertainment reporting, the couple stopped following each other on social media and deleted photos together during their final split, not long after they visited Torreira’s birthplace in Uruguay the previous November, the same trip that had originally fueled marriage speculation.

When asked in an interview what her last relationship had taught her, Özkan answered, without naming Torreira directly, about never giving another person the power to make you give up your dreams. It went viral almost immediately.

The story did not have a simple ending. In January 2026, reports said that Torreira spoke openly, calling the relationship an on-and-off love story and explaining that they broke up because of career priorities, not because they stopped loving each other.

Some outlets suggested he had left the door open to reconciliation — Turkish media reported he re-followed her on Instagram in November 2025 and told a TV host in January 2026 that he was still in love with her — but Özkan reportedly never responded publicly to any of it.

The Halit Özgür Sarı Relationship: Who Cheated, and How It Came Out

This one is worth a closer look because, unlike most entries on the table above, it is not just tabloid speculation; Özkan confirmed it herself.

Around 2021, Özkan was dating actor Halit Özgür Sarı, her co-star from the series Yabani.

The relationship ended after Özkan answered a fan’s Instagram Q&A question asking if she had ever been cheated on. She said yes and specified that it had happened with a close friend, not a stranger. Both people involved denied it to her at the time, she said, and she ended the relationship despite how much she had cared about him.

At first, Özkan did not name names. The story clicked into place shortly after, when rumors surfaced that Sarı had started a relationship with İlayda Alişan, a close friend of Özkan’s at the time. That timing is what turned her vague Instagram answer into a specific, widely reported cheating claim: Turkish outlets connected the dots and reported that Sarı had cheated on Özkan with Alişan.

Özkan followed up with a pointed social media post about the truth eventually coming out, widely read as a direct message to both of them.

Neither Sarı nor Alişan ever publicly confirmed the affair, and no concrete evidence was produced beyond the timing and Özkan’s own statement.

As for why it happened, no one involved ever addressed it. Özkan spoke about being betrayed and about ending the relationship. However, she did not offer a reason for Sarı’s actions, and none of the parties has elaborated since.

The Deniz Can Aktaş Rumors: Full Timeline

A note on precision: Özkan and Aktaş have never laid out a timeline themselves, so some of these dates are best estimates based on when reports or sightings first became public.

Period	What happened	How solid is it
Early 2026	Fans notice Özkan wearing a sweatshirt previously seen on Aktaş; speculation begins	Circumstantial, fan-driven
Early–mid 2026	Reports of possible on-set tension surface after Özkan removes a photo of Aktaş from her social media	Unconfirmed, no statement from either side
Early June 2026	Yeraltı airs its season finale	Confirmed fact
Mid-June 2026	Özkan and Aktaş are reportedly seen together at a nightclub in Los Angeles, shared first by a celebrity gossip account	Single-source sighting, later picked up by mainstream outlets
Mid-June 2026	TV presenter Ece Erken claims on TV8’s Gel Konuşalım that Torreira was shown the footage and reacted with disbelief and tears	A specific, named claim — reported by multiple major outlets, but still Erken’s account, not a Torreira statement
Late June 2026	New photos surface from New York showing the two walking hand-in-hand through Brooklyn, with Aktaş carrying flowers	The strongest visual evidence so far
Early July 2026	Story remains active in Turkish entertainment media	Ongoing, unresolved

The Controversy: Ece Erken’s On-Air Claims About Torreira

This is the part of the story worth being precise about, because it is a specific, attributed claim rather than a vague rumor, and multiple major Turkish outlets reported it independently.

On the TV8 program Gel Konuşalım, host and entertainment reporter Ece Erken said she had spoken with Lucas Torreira directly and claimed he was visibly upset, even in tears, in his father’s company after seeing the Los Angeles nightclub footage of Özkan and Aktaş.

Erken said Torreira told her he did not want to be dragged back into tabloid coverage and, in effect, asked her whether the images were true, reportedly struggling to accept it.

Erken also claimed Torreira told her the two had still been together as recently as after a Fenerbahçe match, and that Özkan had been photographed on her flight to the U.S. wearing a ring said to symbolize their relationship, a detail Erken suggested made the situation harder for Torreira to process.

A few things worth being clear about:

• This is Ece Erken’s account of a private conversation, not a direct public statement from Torreira himself.
• Neither Özkan, Aktaş, nor Torreira has confirmed or denied any part of this on the record.
• Multiple independent Turkish outlets, including Milliyet, Mynet, Ensonhaber, and Bursa Hakimiyet, reported Erken’s claims consistently, which is a reasonable sign that the on-air statements themselves happened as described, even though the underlying claims about Torreira’s feelings remain secondhand.

So the responsible way to read this is that it is well-documented that Ece Erken made these claims publicly on television. It is not confirmed that everything she described is accurate, since none of the three people involved has spoken on the record.

Why This Story Keeps Growing

A few things are fueling the ongoing coverage:

• On-screen chemistry invites real-life speculation. Özkan and Aktaş play a couple in one of Turkish TV’s most-watched current dramas, and Yeraltı fans have been asking “is it real?” since the early episodes.
• A messy breakup in the public eye only adds to the drama. Since the Torreira relationship was already a big story in the tabloids, any news about Özkan’s love life spreads quickly.
• Some fans see silence as confirmation. Özkan and Aktaş have not responded to the rumors, and in celebrity gossip circles, people often think that saying nothing means there is something to hide, even if that is not true.

Conclusion

Here is where things stand: a public, well-covered breakup from Lucas Torreira, a specific and widely reported (but still secondhand) controversy involving his reaction to new photos, and a strong but unconfirmed romance rumor with her Yeraltı co-star. It is not a tidy answer, but it is an accurate one, and it is worth more than a headline that guesses.

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