Bekir Develi

Bekir Develi is a Turkish-German television presenter and writer, born on 4 June 1975 in Bielefeld, West Germany¹. He presented the Ramadan programme Ramazan Sevinci on TRT 1 for seven years and some 600 episodes of travel, quiz and documentary programmes, and then became one of the best-known talk-show hosts on YouTube with his programme Peynir Gemisi¹.

Develi attended primary school in Germany; his family then returned to Turkey after his father's heart illness, and he completed middle and high school in Adana¹. He took a degree in German-language teaching at 19 Mayıs University in Samsun, and worked in radio, theatre and trade before television¹.

Develi presented travel, quiz and documentary programmes amounting to some 600 episodes, and his name became attached to Ramazan Sevinci on TRT 1, which he hosted for seven years¹. He moved to YouTube, launching the talk programme Peynir Gemisi in 2020, and his channel ranked second in YouTube Türkiye's 2021 list of Shorts creators¹. In September 2025 he joined the Sumud flotilla sailing for Gaza¹.

Develi's books include Allah Cümle'mizi Korusun (2018), Fabrika Ayarı (2020, with Hayati İnanç), Herkes İçin Siyer (2021, two volumes, with Muhammed Emin Yıldırım) and Aile İçinde (2021)¹.

Develi is among Turkey's best-known hosts of religious and social talk programmes, with about 1.51 million YouTube subscribers in platform lists of November 2026 — platform figures that change constantly and are not presented by the museum as fixed facts¹.

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