Romance

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Original Title: Seni Cok Bekledim
English Title: Waiting for You
Also Known As: I Waited You So Much (literal title)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 10+
Broadcast Network: Star TV
Broadcast Period: 29 January 2021 –
Production Company: Skala Yapim and DNZ Film
Director: Sahin Altug
Screen Writer: Ozcan Deniz
Filming Locations: Doha, Istanbul

Synopsis
Kadir (Ozcan Deniz) is a middle aged business man who lives in Doha to carry out his business in abroad. He is a cool and successful guy who never believes in coincidences. He achieves to grow the family business through working so hard.

27 years ago, Kadir’s life turns upside down when he is 17 years old. His happy life together with his father and mother breaks into pieces due to an earthquake in Erzincan in 1992. His father passes away right away while his mother and his newly born brother disappear without any trace.

After an earthquake, Kadir looks for his family for almost 1 year. His mother, meanwhile, cannot find Kadir and assumes that he is dead just like her husband.

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Original Title: Sol Yanim
English Title: My Better Half
Also Known As: My Left Side (literal title), Mi Lado Izquierdo
Genre: Drama, Romance, Youth
Episodes: 12
Broadcast Network: Star TV
Broadcast Period: 26 November 2020 – 17 February 2021
Production Company: BKM
Director: Serdar Gozelekli
Screen Writer: Melis Civelek; Ozlem Cadirci
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Serra (Ozge Yagiz) is a young girl who studies architecture at Kuzey University in Istanbul. She is a mature, responsible and beautiful young girl. She and her mother Nilgun (Esra Bezen Bilgin) live in a small shanty house and try to survive without the help of other people.

7 years ago, Serra and her family had a wealthy and happy life. However, their perfect life turned upside down when her father’s business went bankrupt. The sequence of tragedies happened after then. Her father left his family behind and disappeared. Her brother committed suicide and died. Her mother could not handle the situation and suffered from physiological problems.

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Original Title: Bir Annenin Gunahi
English Title: A Mother’s Guilt
Also Known As:
Genre: Family Drama, Crime, Romance
Episodes: 5
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: 21 November 2020 – 19 December 2020
Production Company: Limon Yapim; Skala Yapim
Director: Filiz Gulmez Pakman
Screen Writer: Ozlem Atasoy (screenwriter for Turkish adaptation); Yesim Aslan (screenwriter for Turkish adaptation); original screenwriters are Ruby Leah Castro-Villanueva; Jaja Amarillo; Cyrus Dan Cañares; Jaymar Castro;Riccilyn Santos
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
A Mother’s Guilt (Bir Annenin Gunahi) Turkish series is an adaptation of Philippine television series named Hanggang Saan.

Suna (Ozge Ozberk) is a single mother who tries to do her best to provide a decent life for her children. She has three children, Yusuf (Mert Yazicioglu), Zehra (Mina Derman) and Ali.

Suna gets up before sunrise each day to go fishing and then, goes to her small restaurant where she cooks and serves fresh fish. She works so hard for her family. While she is trying to raise her children in a decent way, she also deposits a portion of her earnings every month into a mortgage plan sold by an established company.

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Original Title: Sevda Kusun Kanadinda
English Title: On The Wings of Love
Also Known As:
Genre: Romance, Drama, Historical
Episodes: 31
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: 29 April 2016 – 28 March 2017
Production Company: Sonart Medya
Director: Ayhan Ozen
Screen Writer: Oktay Berber, Mustafa Burak Dogu, Selma Haciosmanoglu, Alp Emre
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
On The Wings of Love (Sevda Kusun Kanadinda) is a tragic love story that takes place in 1968-1970s in Turkey.

Tumay (Deniz Baysal/Sevtap Ozaltun) is a young woman who comes from a wealthy family. She is leftist and fights against capitalism while her family supports the opposite of her ideologies. Her father Zafer (Yavuz Bingol) is a high ranking police officer and tries to keep his daughter apart from political unrest in the country.

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Original Title: Cati Kati Ask
English Title: Romance Next Door
Also Known As: The Penthouse Love
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: 9 July 2020 – 24 October 2020
Production Company: Mia Yapim
Director: Fehmi Ozturk
Screen Writer: Ramazan Demirli, Gokhan Temel, Ozgur Agaoglu, Seyda Delibasi
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Aysen (Ezgi Senler) is a young and beautiful girl who studies fashion design. After she was abandoned by her parents when she was a little baby, she has been raised by a warm family. Even though Aysen is left alone by her birth parents, she never lacks for family love, coziness, and kindliness.

Aysen becomes the daughter of the family which consists of father Celal (Renan Bilek), mother Perihan (Tulay Gunal), grandmother Saadet (Bedia Ener), sister Suheyla (Pelin Oztekin), brother-in-law Suayip (Bulent Seyran), and brother Demir (Yigit Kirazci).

The life of this warm family gets into a difficulty when they could not get 6-months rent from their penthouse and they could not pay their debt for Turkish type dumplings restaurant.

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Original Title: Yeni Hayat
English Title: New Life
Also Known As:
Genre: Romance, Action
Episodes: 9
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: 3 September 2020 – 29 October 2020
Production Company: OJO Pictures
Director: Basak Soysal, Cem Ozuduru
Screen Writer: Elif Usman, Serdar Soydan, Deniz Buyukkirli
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Adem (Serkan Cayoglu) is A Special Forces soldier who is very successful at his work. He loves his job and is used to spend his time in different locations of Turkey apart from his family. Unfortunately, Adem gets seriously injured while he wants to protect his friend when they are on duty. Hence, he has nothing to do but to leave army and start a new life.

After being discharged from Special Forces, Adem starts to look for a new job in Istanbul. He is married with Nevin (Nilperi Sahinkaya) and has a happy cozy life together with his lovely daughter.

Adem does not have big expectations. All he wants is to support his family in a decent way and start his own business about security guardianship. Even though Adem applies for different job vacancies, unfortunately, he cannot find a job just because he, as an retired maroon beret, is considered as overqualified.

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Original Title: Baraj
English Title: Nehir
Also Known As: Dam
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 39
Broadcast Network: Fox Tv
Broadcast Period: 17 March 2020 – 11 May 2021
Production Company: Medyapim & N0:9 Productions
Director: Hasan Tolga Pulat
Screen Writer: Hasan Tolga Pulat
Filming Locations: Istanbul; Sakarya Akcay Dam (Akcay Baraji)

Synopsis
Nehir (Baraj – Dam) Turkish series is a remake of Turkish movie named Dam made in 1977 starring Turkan Soray and Tarik Akan.

Nehir (Biran Damla Yilmaz) is a young and beautiful girl who uses her beauty to swindle young men. Since she was left alone by her parents and forced to survive in the streets, she has been living together with her mentor Zerrin (Sumru Yavrucuk).

Zerrin and Nehir become a good business partner and work together to swindle young men. While Nehir seduces a wealthy man and makes him fall in love with her, Zerrin pretends to be Nehir’s mother.

The fall guy expects to get married to Nehir and even has a wedding ceremony, but Nehir and Zerrin run away and remove their trace after they take all the wedding presents and hack the credit cards of the fall guy.

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Original Title: Ariza
English Title: Trouble (literal title)
Also Known As:
Genre: Romance, Action
Episodes: 29
Broadcast Network: Show Tv
Broadcast Period: 13 September 2020 – 11 April 2021
Production Company: O3 Media
Director: Recai Karagoz
Screen Writer: Ozan Aksungur
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Ariza which means “trouble”, “disturbance” and “malfunction” in Turkish corresponds to the name of the lead character Ali Riza (A.Riza = the first letter of “Ali” and the middle name of “Riza”)

Ali Riza (Tolga Saritas) is a young taxi driver who has a quiet ordinary life together with his mother, brother and two sisters. After his father’s death, Ali Riza becomes the head of the family and starts to work hard to support his family.

Ali Riza’s life turns upside down when he comes across to a beautiful young doctor Halide (Ayca Aysin Turan).

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Original Title: Masumlar Apartmani
English Title: House of Innocent People
Also Known As: The Innocents
Genre: Drama, Romance, Physiological
Episodes: 16+
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: 15 September 2020 –
Production Company: OGM Pictures
Director: Cagri Vila Vostuvali
Screen Writer: Deniz Madanoglu
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
This Turkish drama is an adaptation of popular novel named Madalyonun Ici by Gulseren Budaycioglu.

Inci (Farah Zeynep Abdullah) is a young girl who lives together with her brother and grandfather. After her mother left them years ago, Inci suffers from reliance problem and she tries her best not to leave anyone alone.

For this reason, Inci even cannot break up with her alcoholic boyfriend Uygar (Alper Saldiran).

Han (Birkan Sokullu), on the other hand, is a handsome and successful businessman who lives together with his father Hikmet, and his three sisters Safiye (Ezgi Mola), Gulben (Merve Dizdar), and Neriman.

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Original Title: Maria ile Mustafa
English Title: Maria and Mustafa
Also Known As:
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 3+
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: 6 September 2020 –
Production Company: NTC Medya
Director: Faruk Teber
Screen Writer: Birol Elginoz
Filming Locations: Cappadocia / Nevsehir, Turkey

Synopsis
Maria (Jessica May) is a beautiful girl whose father is Turkish while her mother is Colombian. When she is seven years old, she leaves Turkey together with her mother and starts to live in Colombia. After then, she rarely sees her father and comes to Turkey a couple of times. Whenever she comes to Turkey, she intentionally upset her father because she believes that her father let them leave and has not done his best to keep the family together.

Years later, Maria’s father passes away all alone due to an illness and Maria returns Turkey in order to visit her father’s graveyard and sell the property inherited from her father.

Maria aims to sell the property as soon as possible, return Colombia to open a restaurant with the money she gets, and work there as a cook. However, her life turns upside down when she finds true love in Cappadocia.