Enes Batur Sungurtekin (born 9 April 1998) is a Turkish YouTuber and actor. He became known through the vlog videos he published on YouTube.[2] As of January 2024, he owns the most-subscribed personal YouTube channel in Turkey with 16 million subscribers, through which he publishes a variety of videos.[3]
Life and career
Enes Batur Sungurtekin was born on 9 April 1998 in Ankara to Arzu and Fatih Sungurtekin. His mother and father are from Malatya and Adana respectively.[4] Batur initially studied at the Computer Science Department of Antalya Bilim University,[5] but as his YouTube career evolved he enrolled in the Cinema and Television Department of Nişantaşı University.
In 2017, he won the first ever Best YouTuber/Instagrammer Award at the 44th Golden Butterfly Awards, but the organization later took the award back.[6][7] In 2018, he won the Social Media Phenomenon of the Year award at the 5th Golden Palm Awards. His first movie, Enes Batur Hayal mi Gerçek mi?, in which he shared the leading role with Ceyda Düvenci and Bekir Akso, was released on 19 January 2018 and sold ₺17.4 million.[8] It was followed by a sequel titled Enes Batur Gerçek Kahraman on 31 May 2019, which sold ₺7.3. In 2019, Batur joined Survivor Turkey as a guest contestant and competed in one episode of the show.[9]
In April and May 2020, it was reported the a YouTube channel called Oyuncak Avı had garnered over 8 million followers over a short period of time, surpassing Batur as the most-subscribed Turkish channel according to data published by SocialBlade. SocialBlade did not change Enes Batur's on position its list,[10] as Oyuncak Avı was classified as an American YouTube channel.[11]
Personal life
Batur was in a relationship with fellow YouTuber Başak Karahan between 2017–2018. On 23 May 2019, news of his marriage to Damla Aslanalp surfaced on the media with Batur publishing the wedding photographs on his social media accounts.[12] Yet, his followers did not believe it and labeled it as an advertisement for his new film.[13] In June 2019, Batur confirmed the rumors through a live video on Instagram and stated that the marriage was fake.[14]
Allegations of copying popular YouTubers and channel termination threat
On 4 August 2019, YouTuber JT posted a video that exposed Batur copying material from several YouTubers such as PewDiePie and MrBeast. JT alleged that Batur had copied PewDiePie's Minecraft series by posting a thumbnail similar to PewDiePie's and reenacted everything PewDiePie did.[15][16] After JT published the video, Batur issued a copyright strike, saying that JT had used his audio without permission. The strike was later overturned, but JT asked for Batur's channel to be terminated for violating the rules of YouTube's copyright claim system. Batur later blocked users who had questioned him about the allegations on his social media pages.[16] Allegations continued after Batur's channel was featured in YouTube Rewind 2019: For the Record despite the violations JT listed.[citation needed]
