Comedy

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Original Title: Bizim Hikaye
English Title: Our Story
Also Known As:
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Episodes: 37+
Broadcast Network: Fox Tv
Broadcast Period: September 15, 2017 –
Production Company: Med Yapim
Director: Serdar Gozelekli
Screen Writer: Banu Kiremitci Bozkurt, Ebru Kocaoglu, Verda Pars

Synopsis
Our Story (Bizim Hikaye) is the Turkish adaptation of popular American series Shameless.

Filiz (Hazal Kaya) is a young girl who takes care of her 5 siblings due to her mother’s absence. She bears much of the child-bearing responsibility and tries to do her best keep her family together. She dedicates her life to her family. She quits her school and starts to work at low-skilled jobs to support her family financially.

Filiz does all the household chore, works at various jobs even at night, and raises the rest of the family on her own. She also needs to cope with her alcoholic father. Her father Fikri (Reha Ozcan) is selfish and spends much of his time drinking. He takes everything and offers nothing.

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Original Title: Two Families
English Title: Iki Aile
Also Known As: Fetele tale, baietii mei (Romania), Semeen saraj (Bulgaria)
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 93
Broadcast Network: Star TV
Broadcast Period: June 19, 2006 – June 16, 2008
Production Company: D Productions
Director: Nursan Esenboga, Metin Gunay, Yildiz Hulya Bilban
Screen Writer: Saygin Delibas, Fethi Kantarci, Barkin Senuren

Synopsis
Oguz (Emre Kinay) is a 45 years old man who owns an advertising agency. After his wife passed away years ago, he never gets married and lives happily together with his three daughters. His eldest daughter Damla (Bahar Yanilmaz) studies at medical school and tries to do her best to take care of her sisters. His second daughter Ceren (Ece Cesmioglu) goes to high school and is carefree unlike her elder sister. His youngest daughter Merve (Zeynep Ozkaya) goes to primary school.

Eda (Iclal Aydin), on the other hand, is a 35 years old woman who has divorced her husband upon his infidelity. She wants to start a new life with her two sons without getting any help from her ex-husband. Her eldest son Efe (Dogac Yildiz) goes to high school and still could not get used to the divorce of his parents. Her youngest son Timur (Akcahan Akca) goes to primary school and is torn between his mother and father. Eda wants to buy a house where she can live with her two sons in the upstairs while she can work at the downstairs as a pre-kindergarten caretaker.

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Original Title: Akasya Duragi
English Title: Taxi Station
Also Known As: Crossing Lives
Genre: Comedy, Family, Friendship
Episodes: 174
Broadcast Network: Kanal D, Star TV
Broadcast Period: July 14, 2008 – September 1, 2012
Production Company: Erler Film
Director: Yasar Seriner
Screen Writer: Resul Ertas

Synopsis
Mrs. Melahat (Melek Baykal) loses everything after her husband goes bankrupt and then passes away. She and her daughter Tugce (Zeynep Dortkardesler) need to forget their wealthy life and start to find a way to survive. Their former driver Nuri (Zeki Alasya) learns their situation from the news and wants to help them.

Nuri is a very old driver who starts his own taxi company after retirement. He is the owner of a taxi station named Akasya Duragi where many taxi drivers work. He acts responsibly for his former employer’s family and finds an old but a cozy house in his neighborhood. Mrs. Melahat and her daughter Tugce move in to their new house and start to have a new life in this friendly neighborhood.

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Original Title: Canim Ailem
English Title: Dear Family
Also Known As:
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 63
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: November 18, 2008 – June 9, 2010
Production Company: TMC Film
Director: Sadullah Celen
Screen Writer: Selin Tunc

Synopsis
Samim (Ugur Yucel) is a 45 years old man who has never taken a significant responsibility in this life. He is working as a waiter on cruise ships and travels from one country to another as an unmarried carefree man. While he is working on the cruise ship and going towards Caribbeans, he gets a phone call and learns that his sister and his brother-in-law have died in a traffic accident.

After getting this sad news, Samim wants to return to Istanbul and attend his sister’s funeral. His close friend Ali (Ozan Guven) who is also working on cruise ships does not want to let him alone and decides to accompany him. Samim and Ali leave their job and return to Turkey.

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Original Title: Kardes Payi
English Title: Equal Share
Also Known As: Brotherhood, Trivia
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 35
Broadcast Network: Star Tv
Broadcast Period: February 13, 2014 – April 30, 2015
Production Company: NTC Media
Director: Selcuk Aydemir
Screen Writer: Selcuk Aydemir

Synopsis
Two brothers Metin (Ahmet Kural) and Ali (Murat Cemcir) are plumbers with no scientific education. Ali is a widower but still goes around his ex-wife. Metin is in love with the pharmaceutist at the neighborhood but cannot gain her hearth no matter what he does. Their sister Feyyza (Seda Bakan) works at the gas station and secretly loves the gas pumper.

Metin, Ali and Feyyza live happily together even though they argue most of the time due to trifling issues.

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Original Title: Yahsi Cazibe
English Title: Marry Me
Also Known As:
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 93
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: July 16, 2010 – June 16, 2012
Production Company: Surec Film
Director: Bora Onur
Screen Writer: Gani Mujde

Synopsis
Cazibe (Aslihan Gurbuz) is an Azeri woman who immigrates to Turkey. She decides to have an arranged marriage with a Turkish citizen in order to get a work permit. This marriage would be on paper and would last for 3 years according to the agreement.

With the help of a matchmaker, Cazibe finds a man in financial trouble. Kemal (Hakan Yilmaz) is a Turkish citizen who works at importing company but has financial problems. Kemal decides to get married to Cazibe so as to get a substantial payment in return. He does not meet Cazibe before marriage and sees her at his wedding day.

Kemal and Cazibe get married and agree to stay married for three years. They think that they would not see each other again and this marriage would be on paper. However, nothing works out as planned.

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Original Title: Yeni Gelin
English Title: New Bride
Also Known As:
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Episodes: 15+
Broadcast Network: Show TV
Broadcast Period: March 11, 2017 –
Production Company: Surec Film
Director: Ersoy Guler
Screen Writer: Ersoy Guler

Synopsis
Bella (Jessica May Drociunas) is an educated young girl who comes from an aristocratic background. She was born in Milan, Spain as the only daughter of a Turkish father – an ambassador of Turkey and a Spanish high-society mother.

Bella finds her prince charming at university. Hazar (Tolga Mendi) is the heir of a tribe from Adana (a city in the East of Turkey). His tribe is known as a Bozok family who is devoted to their customs and traditions.

Bella and Hazar fall in love with each other even though they come from different family backgrounds. After 3 years of happy relationship during their university education, Hazar proposes and Bella gladly accepts his proposal. Without taking their parents’ approval, Hazar and Bella get married and start a new life. Bella follows her husband to his home at Adana despite her parents’ reservations.

Bella assumes to have an exotic Eastern adventure in Adana. However, nothing turns out to be as expected. Hazar’s family also disapproves their marriage because they have to break their promise to the other tribe. Hazar has been engaged to Dilan (Silan Makal) from other tribe in order to end the enemy between these two tribes. Now, Hazar’s new bride is Bella and he cannot get married to Dilan. This situation enkindles the enemy between these two tribes.

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Original Title: Leyla ile Mecnun
English Title: Leyla and Mecnun
Also Known As:
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 104
Broadcast Network: TRT 1, Netflix
Broadcast Period: February 9, 2011 – June 17, 2013
Production Company: EfLAtun Film
Director: Onur Unlu
Screen Writer: Burak Aksak
Filming Locations: Kirecburnu, Sariyer, Istanbul; Ankara; Izmir; Yozgat

Synopsis
It is a surreal, absurdist comedy revolving around the poetic love story of Layla and Majnun.

Mecnun (Ali Atay) and Leyla (Ezgi Asaroglu) were born on the same day in the same hospital. Since there were not enough beds in the hospital, the two babies were put to the same bed. Seeing this absurd situation and inspired by the poetic love story of Layla and Majnun, the fathers decided to give the names of Leyla and Mecnun to their babies and agreed to make them marry 25 years later.

Destiny brings Mecnun and Leyla together as newborns and again years later.

Even though Mecnun has never seen Leyla for 25 years, he cannot persuade her father and goes to Leyla’s house in order to ask her hand in marriage. He finds this situation nonsense. However, Mecnun falls in love with Leyla at first sight and wants to get married to her no matter what.

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Original Title: Seviyor Sevmiyor
English Title: Love Me Or Not
Also Known As: She Was Pretty
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 28
Broadcast Network: Atv
Broadcast Period: June 15, 2016 – February 12, 2017
Production Company: MF Yapim
Director: Yusuf Pirhasan
Screen Writer: Cho Sung – Hee (original screen writer), S. Cenk Bogatur (adapter), Meric Demiray (adapter), M. Cem Gorgeç (adapter)

Synopsis
Deniz (Zeynep Camci) was a very pretty and smart girl from a rich family but lost her beauty when she grew up. Yigit (Gokhan Alkan), on the other hand, was an unattractive and shy boy with low self-esteem, but became a handsome and successful editor. When Yigit went to New York with his family, these two started to exchange letters but never met face to face. Both of them were each other’s best friend when they were younger.

Years later, Deniz and Yigit decide to meet again in Istanbul. They both go to their meeting place. However, Yigit cannot recognize Deniz and assumes that his childhood friend and first love has not come to their date. Deniz, on the other hand, feels too humiliated when Yigit does not recognize her. Ashamed to introduce herself and ruin his perception of her, Deniz asks her best friend, Irem (Gonca Sariyildiz), to meet her first love, Yigit, using her name. She thinks that that would be the end of her fate with Yigit but things get complicated.

Deniz starts to work at a magazine publishing office as an intern. Yigit becomes the chief editor of that magazine publishing office where Deniz works. He mistreats her without knowing that she is his real childhood friend. Irem, on the other hand, continues to meet Yigit by using Deniz’s name and starts to develop some feelings for him.

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Original Title: Ask Laftan Anlamaz
English Title: Love Does Not Listen To Reason
Also Known As:
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Episodes: 31
Broadcast Network: Show TV
Broadcast Period: June 15, 2016 – February 19, 2017
Production Company: Bi Yapim
Director: Burak Sagyasar, Muge Ugurlar
Screen Writer:

Synopsis
Hayat (Hande Ercel) is young girl who lives in Istanbul together with her two friends Asli (Ozcan Tekdemir) and Ipek (Merve Cagiran). She has a happy life in Istanbul and wants to live there apart from her family. However, upon her father’s request, Hayat has to find a good job as soon as possible; otherwise she needs to go back to her hometown and start to live with her family again.

Hayat knows that she has to do her best on the next job interview for a multinational textile company, Sarte. If she is hired by that company, she knows that she can persuade her parents and continue to live in Istanbul. During the interview, Hayat is mistakenly considered as Suna who is the daughter of the company owner’s close friend. In her desperation for the job, Hayat does not clear this misunderstanding and acts as if she is Suna and gets the job: becoming the assistant of Murat Sarsılmaz (Burak Deniz), the heir of Sarte.

Hayat does not disclose her true identity and starts to work together with Murat. Even though they argue all the time, they become closer and closer. Hayat is impatient, hot-blooded, and clumsy whereas Murat is firm, calm, and arrogant. The two have totally different characters but begin to fall in love.