Comedy

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Original Title: Ask Emek Ister
English Title: Love Wants Effort
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Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Episodes: 11
Broadcast Network: Show Tv
Broadcast Period: April 14, 2013 – August 1, 2013
Production Company: MinT Yapim
Director: Hamdi Alkan
Screen Writer: Birol Guven

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Demir (Furkan Palali) is a young and handsome guy who has graduated from an university in the U.S. He lives happly without knowing the hardships of the life. When he returns to Istanbul, he expects that he would be the boss at his family business. However, Demir’s father (Mazlum Kiper) wants him to understand how true life is. For this reason, his father asks him to be a simple worker at one of his factories and to learn the business from the start. If Demir does not accept that offer, his father would not give him any money and would not let him stay at his house or use his credit cards, cars, etc.

Demir has nothing to do but to work at the factory as an ordinary worker. He involuntarily accepts his father’s offer. He thinks that his father would change his mind after 2 or 3 days. But, he does not know that his father is really determined at this time.

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Original Title: Seksenler
English Title: 80s
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Genre: Family, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 348+
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: January 24, 2012
Production Company: Mint Production
Director: Mufit Can Sacinti, Birol Guven
Screen Writer: Murat Aras, Birol Guven

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Fehmi (Rasim Oztekin) is a father of the family. He has a simple middle-class life with his wife Rukiye (Ozlem Turkad), his sons Ahmet (Soray Uzun) and Cagatay (Ilker Ayrik), and his daughter Nazli (Yasemin Conka). They live happilly in a friendly neighborhood in Turkey. The time is 1980s and during that time, they have different happinesses, problems, and loves.

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Original Title: Ask Oyunu
English Title: The Game of Love
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Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 47
Broadcast Network: Kanal D (1-24 episodes), Atv (25-47 episodes)
Broadcast Period: June 28, 2005 – 2006
Production Company: Medyapim
Director: Bulent Isbilen
Screen Writer: Cem Gorgec, Baris Erdogan
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

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Sarp (Keremcem) is a rich, young and handsome man who is wominezer. His parents do not like his life style and want him to settle back. They want him to get married Yelda (Belit Ozukan) who also comes from a rich family.

On the other hand, Ekin (Yasemin Ergene) is a poor suburban girl who works in a factory to support her poor family. One day, out of pure coincidence, Ekin and Sarp come across and decide to make a marriage aggreement.

Sarp does not want to get married Yelda and he wants his freedom back. Meanwhile, Ekin wants to finance her family’s monetary needs. Through fake marriage, both Sarp and Ekin will be happy.

This is because, Sarp will get rid of his parents’s pressure while continuing his night-life and at the same time, Ekin will get money from Sarp while pretending his wife. However, they do not consider one thing: love. Eventually, they will fall in love and this love will affect everyone.

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Original Title: Gulbeyaz
English Title: Gulbeyaz
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Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 26
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: December 15, 2002 – March 4, 2003
Production Company: Eryapim
Director: Ozer Kiziltan
Screen Writer: Ruya Iscileri, Meric Demiray, Cenk Bogatur, Cem Gorgec, Baris Erdogan

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Gulbeyaz (Sevval Sam) is a beautiful and young girl who lives at the countryside in the Black Sea Region of Turkey.

Gulbeyaz fonds of her grandmother vey much. That’s why, she is just like her grandmother: boyish, stubborn and tough.

On the other hand, Kadir (Nejat Isler) also comes from the countryside but he has lived in Istanbul for a long time to study.

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Original Title: Yalan Dunya
English Title: Fake World
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 90
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: January 7, 2012 – November 19, 2014
Production Company: D Production
Director: Jale Atabey Ozberk
Screen Writer: Gulse Birsel

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Kocabas family, originally comes from Antakya, lives in Istanbul. The head of the family is the father Sehmuz (Altan Erkekli) who lives with his wife Servet (Fusun Demirel), his daughter Gulistan (Hasibe Eren), his son-in-law Selahattin (Olgun Simsek), his son Riza (Beyazit Ozturk), and his grandson Orcun (Bartu Kucukcaglayan). Riza is engaged with Nurhayat (Gupse Ozay) but never wants to marry her. He could not continue to do whatever his family wants and at the end, he decides to live as he wishes and breaks up with Nurhayat. Now the whole family tries to reconcile them.

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Original Title: Melekler Korusun
English Title: Angels Bless You
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Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Episodes: 73
Broadcast Network: Show TV
Broadcast Period: January 1, 2009 – August 6, 2010
Production Company: Timur Savci
Director: Cevriye Demir, Kerem Cakiroglu
Screen Writer: Eylem Canpolat, Sema Ergenekon

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Melek (Humeyra Akbay) is a hardworking woman who lives with her daughter, Ipek (Ozge Ozpirinci). They have a cozy house in a small town in Turkey. Melek works as a tailor and struggles to raise her daughter in a proper way as much as possible. She knows how hard it is to survive in this world without a good occupation. That’s why she wants her daughter to go to the medical school, to become a nurse, and to have a stable job. However, Ipek dreams to go to Istanbul and to become an actress.

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Original Title: Umutsuz Ev Kadinlari
English Title: Desperate Housewives
Also Known As: Domaćice sa Bosfora, Γυναίκες σε Απόγνωση, نساء حائرات , نساء حائرات, Shtepiake Te Deshperuara, Amas de Casa Desesperadas
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 154
Broadcast Network: Kanal D (2011-2013), FOX Tv (2013-2014), TV2
Broadcast Period: October 02, 2011 – June 19, 2014
Production Company: Med Yapim
Director: Eylem Koza, Merve Girgin
Screen Writer: Gul Gursoy, Hatice Meryem, Yelda Eroglu
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
This tv series is a Turkish version of Desperate Housewives.

Elif (Ceyda Duvenci) is a good mother who devoted herself to her four children and could not go back to her job again.

Emel (Ozge Ozder) is a beautiful widow who makes a living through her death husband’s salary and now searches for a new love.

Nermin (Bennu Yildirimlar) is a picky and difficult woman who unknowingly destroys her family relations.

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Original Title: Cocuklar Duymasin
English Title: Don’t Let the Kids Know
Also Known As: Family Links (English)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Episodes: 456
Seasons: 9
Broadcast Network: TGRT (2002), Atv (2002-2003, 2010-2012), Star TV (2003-2005), FOX (2013-2014), Kanal D (2017-2019)
Broadcast Period: January 16, 2002 – April 11, 2019
Production Company: MinT Motion Pictures
Director: Rasit Celikezer (2002-2005), Gunay Koker (2010-2012), Bora Tekay (2010-2014, 2017-2019)
Screen Writer: Birol Guven, Metin Acikgoz (2002-2012), Nilufer Yenidogan (2002-2005), Ozlem Aybek (2002-2005), Mufit Can Sacinti (2010-2012), Caner Guler (2010-2012)
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

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Meltem (Pinar Altug) and Haluk (Tamer Karadagli) have been married for 16 years and have two children: Emre (Furkan Kizilay) and Duygu (Aysecan Tatari/Hayal Garip).

Although they are married for a long time, they still manage to turn the minor upsets of married life into major disasters and continually accuse each other in this respect. They squabble all the time and frequently speak of divorce but at the end, they always back down.

The characters of the drama is very colourful: Haluk is quite feudal and jealous, Meltem is a working wife trying to maintain her independence in the marriage, Haluk’s colleague Selami (Ozgur Ozan) does whatever his wife says so he is labeled as being a “light man”, Selami’s wife Gonul (Zeyno Gunenc) who is called by Haluk as being the “dominant aunt” is a close friend of Meltem and Haluk’s boss Ismail is a womanizer and so on.

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Original Title: Elveda Rumeli
English Title: Farewell Rumelia
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Genre: Historical, Comedy
Episodes: 83
Seasons: 3
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: September 20, 2007 – October 19, 2009
Production Company: Adam Film
Director: Serdar Akar
Screen Writer: Ali Can Yaras, Ozge Efendioglu, Nuran Evren Sit
Filming Locations: Monastery, Macedonia

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Rumeli which literally means ‘The Land of the Romans’ is the name given by Turks to the multi-cultural and multi-ethnic Balkans. The ‘Roman’ refers to in that is not the citizen of Roman Empire. It is the respectful Turkish tag given to Orthodox Christians.

Farewell Rumeli (Elveda Rumeli) is a comedy/drama series that nostalgically reminisces the period that would see the collapse of the Ottoman Empire through the ordinary lives of the members of a Turkish family in Macedonia.

Ramiz (Erdal Ozyagcilar), his wife Fatma (Sebnem Sonmez) and their five daughters live barely in a small village affiliated to Pursican county of Macedonia in 1896. Ramiz works as a milkman and wants nothing more than to find appropriate grooms for his precious daughters.

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Original Title: Gonulcelen
English Title: My Fair Lady
Also Known As: Becoming a Lady, Heart Stealer, Convirtiéndose en una dama
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 56
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: February 25, 2010 – June 24, 2011
Production Company: Sis Yapim
Director: Cevdet Mercan
Screen Writer: Sertac Ergin, Nilgun Ones, Kerim Ceylan, Gul Dirican, Dilek Edwards

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Murat (Cansel Elcin) is a young but a successful musician. After spending many years in abroad, he returns to Istanbul where he was born and raised. One day, while he is wandering around with his friend Levent (Onur Saylak), he comes across a young girl who makes her living by selling flowers and occasionally singing in a band.

Murat hears potential in her untrained voice and takes a bet that he can transform this unrefined, flower girl Hasret (Tuba Buyukustun) into a lady. This bet changes not only the life of Murat but also that of Hasret.