Aref Ghafouri | |
Birth Date: | 11 December 1989 |
Birth Place: | Urmia, Iran |
Citizenship: | Iran, Turkey |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Fields: | Illusionist |
Prizes: | Merlin Award[1] |
Aref Ghafouri (fa|عارف غفوری; born 11 December 1989 in Urmia)[2] [3] is a Turkish-Iranian illusionist[4] who won the Merlin Award. He was known in Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye. Ghafouri is a citizen of Turkey.
In July 2018, he was bitten by an Egyptian cobra while preparing for a show in Turkey. He was evacuated to Egypt for treatment with the anti-venom, and made a full recovery.[5] He is of Iranian Azerbaijani descent.