Drama

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Original Title: Hanimin Ciftligi
English Title: Lady’s Farm
Also Known As:
Genre: History, Drama
Episodes: 70
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: September 4, 2009 – June 17, 2011
Production Company: Gold Film
Director: Faruk Teber
Screen Writer: Hurer Ebeoglu, Elif Usman, Zulkuf Yucel

Synopsis
Poor girl named Gullu (Ozgu Namal) works in a factory of powerful and rich Muzaffer (Mehmet Aslantug) who owns vast estates in Adana (a city in southern Turkey). She is constantly abused by her father, Cemsir (Mehmet Cevik) and her brother. Gullu is in love with Kemal (Caner Cindoruk) who works at the same factory as a mechanic and they plan to get married. However, Gullu’s father wants her to marry the nephew of the factory owner, Ramazan (Necip Memili) who offers a lot of money in return. The story gets more complicated when Muzaffer spots Gullu and falls madly in love with her. Now, Gullu is in the middle of the road to prosperity, power, and to the lady’s farm.

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Original Title: Kucuk Kadinlar
English Title: Little Women
Also Known As: Micutele domnisoare (Romania)
Genre: Drama
Episodes: 120
Broadcast Network: Kanal D, Star TV
Broadcast Period: June 10, 2008 – March 13, 2011
Production Company: D Production
Director: Hakan Arslan
Screen Writer: Deniz Akcay

Synopsis
Elif (Ekin Turkmen), Armagan (Hande Soral), Yeliz (Fulya Zenginer), Bilge (Elit Iscan) and Cansu (Selin Ilgar) are five sisters with different characters. The biggest sister Elif is 20 years old and goes to Law College.

Rebellious Armagan is 17 years old and goes to high school. Thoughless and fancyful Yeliz is 15, responsible and hardworking Bilge is 12, and sensitive Cansu is 6 years old. They live happily in a small house with their parents but soon the shattering revelation changes these people forever.

One day, they lose both their mother and their father. After losing their parents, they encounter the hardship of this world and experience the most difficult test of life. At first, they receive assistance from their neighbors but later they try to struggle to fend for themselves. They start to fight to avoid falling down while growing up together.

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Original Title: Kaybolan Yillar
English Title: Lost Years
Also Known As: Wa Tamdy Al Ayam (Arabic), Anii pierduti (Romania), Izgubeni godini (Bulgaria), Vitet e Humbura (Albania)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Episodes: 49
Broadcast Network: Star TV
Broadcast Period: April 14, 2006 – Marc 1, 2007
Production Company: Base Production
Director: Sergin Akyaz, Zeynep Gunay
Screen Writer: Sergin Akyaz
Filming Locations: Turkey

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Esmer, Ali, and Ezel are best friends in orphanage. They are inseparable, they are family and they are every thing to each other. However, when a family wants to adopt Ezel as a replacement for their dead daughter, the life of these three friends changes forever.

After 23 years, we see that Ali (Burak Hakki) is a police officier, Ezel (Yesim Buber) whose name is Aylin now is a wealthy young doctor, and Esmer (Saruhan Hunel) is a mob gangster.

After all these years, a cruel man Esmer, an elegant tender girl Ezel/Aylin, and a kind guy Ali meet again but now they become enemies.

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Original Title: Ask ve Ceza
English Title: Love and Punishment
Also Known As:
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 62
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: January 5, 2010 – June 27, 2011
Production Company: TMC Film
Director: Kudret Sabanci
Screen Writer: Yildiz Tunc, Murat Lutfu, Mehmet Bilal, Ethem Yekta

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Yasemin (Nurgul Yesilcay) is a 25-year old girl who works in an advertisement company. She plans to get married Mehmet (Caner Kurtaran) but one week before their wedding, she finds out that her fiancé is cheating on her with her best friend. After this betrayal, she loses her belief in love, marriage and innocence and immediately goes to Bodrum (a touristic place in western Turkey) where her mother lives.

In Bodrum, Yasemin goes to the night pub and out of pure coincidence she comes across Savas (Murat Yildirim) who turns her life upside down. They spend one night together but in the morning, Yasemin disappears without leaving any track but just a necklace. This one night stand which is the beginning of the hope for a greater love changes both the life of Yasemin and Savas.

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Original Title: Muhtesem Yuzyil
English Title: Magnificent Century
Also Known As: Suleimán – El Gran sultán, Hareem al Sultan, حريم السلطان (Hareem Elsultan), حرم سلطان (Hurrem Sultan), Sulejmani i Madhërishëm, El Sultán, Σουλεϊμάν ο Μεγαλοπρεπής (Souleiman o Megaloprepis), Szulejmán, HaSultan, Hürrem Aur Sultan
Genre: History, Drama, Romance
Episodes: 139
Broadcast Network: Show TV & Star Tv
Broadcast Period: January 5, 2011 – June 11, 2014
Production Company: Tims Production
Director: Yagmur Taylan, Durul Taylan
Screen Writer: Meral Okay, Yilmaz Sahin
Filming Locations: Istanbul

Synopsis
Suleyman (Halit Ergenc) is a young man who is very handsome and fond of study. He learns the death of his father while he is hunting with his close friend Ibrahim (Okan Yalabik). Upon the death of his father, Suleyman enters Istanbul and accedes to the throne as the tenth Ottoman Sultan. His life changes radically, he becomes the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. Also, he will be known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as the Lawgiver for his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system.

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Original Title: Menekse ile Halil
English Title: Menekse and Halil
Also Known As: Mirna & Khalil (Arabic), Miran wa Khalil (Arabic), Menekse si Halil (Romania)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 36
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: September 07, 2007 – May 24, 2008
Production Company: Ay Yapim
Director: Uluc Bayraktar
Screen Writer: Melek Gencoglu, Ece Yorenc

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Menekse (Sedef Avci) and Halil (Kivanc Tatlitug) work at the same patisserie and love each other. Their love is so profound, strong and pure. Halil is a Bosnian young man who has a secret that he cannot tell even Menekse about. This secret has haunted him for most of his life and is a heavy burden on his shoulders.

Menekse, on the other hand, is a 20-year old Turkish girl who lives with her family. Menekse conceals their relationship from her family because her father is very conservative. Her father, Hasan (Mehmet Cevik), uses forces her to marry one of their fellow citizens, Mustafa (Hasan Kucukcetin) who offers a lot of money in return.

Menekse and Halil don’t give up their love, even if they are separated from each other. They escape to Istanbul leaving everything behind. However, their story becomes more complicated when Menekse’s husband Mustafa and her brother Kadir (Caner Candarli) arrive in Istanbul too in order to find them.

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Original Title: Elveda Derken
English Title: Moment of Farewell
Also Known As: A Farewell Moment (English), Lahzat Wadaa (Arabic), Înainte de sfarsit (Romania), Sylzi nad Bosfora (Bulgarian)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Episodes: 51
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: March 21, 2007 – June 18, 2008
Production Company: Yagmur Ajans
Director: Hilal Saral Unalan
Screen Writer: Ozgur Evren Hepturk
Filming Locations: Turkey

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Lale (Ece Uslu) is a pediatrician and has a very happy family. She deeply loves her author husband Ege (Sinan Sumer) and her two little daughters. But her happy life changes when she is diagnosed a deadly terminal disease, a tumor in her brain.

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Original Title: Haziran Gecesi
English Title: Night of June
Also Known As: Havin (Romania), Havin – Doua vieti, o dragoste (Romania), Iunskaya Nochi (Russia)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 62
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: September 13, 2004 – February 20, 2006
Production Company: Gold Film
Director: Andac Haznedaroglu
Screen Writer: Mahinur Ergun
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

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Havin (Naz Elmaz) is a 23-year old girl who goes to university. She lives with her friend but they struggle for money to pay the rent and other expenses. Therefore, Havin accepts to be hostess at a party.

In the party, she comes across Baran (Ozcan Deniz) who turns her life upside down. Havin and Baran fall completely into each other. They become very close together and plan to be married.

However, as they are on the way for the wedding, they have a car accident. Both survive the crash but Havin is injured badly. Baran’s mother Kumru (Nebahat Cehre) makes a deal that she will save Havin if Havin leaves Baran and goes away from his life.

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Original Title: Asi
English Title: Rebellious
Also Known As: Rebel (English), Asi. Impotriva Destinului (Romania), Gordata Asi (Bulgaria), Assi (Arabic), 3asi (Arabic), Perla Orientu, Pride and Love, Vaccine, Caasi
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 71
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: October 26, 2007 – June 19, 2009
Production Company: Sis Yapim
Director: Cevdet Mercan
Screen Writer: Gul Dirican, Nese Cehiz, Bilal Babaoglu, Sebnem Citak, Sertac Ergin

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After years of absence, Demir (Murat Yildirim) heads back to his hometown Antakya, as a businessman. In Antakya, he remembers the death of his mother who drowned herself in the river after losing her job. Demir holds Kozcuoglu family responsible for the suicide of his mother. Kozcuoglu family owns a prominent farm in Antakya for three generations. The owner Ihsan Kozcuoglu (Cetin Tekindor) and his daughter Asi (Tuba Buyukustun) do their best to keep their farm alive. When Demir encounters Asi, he is immediately drowned to her without knowing that she comes from Kozcuoglu family. He decides to move his business to Antakya and then the story begins.

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Original Title: Aska Surgun
English Title: Slave to Love
Also Known As: Love In Exile
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 53
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: Marc 7, 2005 – June 5, 2006
Production Company: Sis Yapim
Director: Cemal San
Screen Writer: Deniz Sertbarut, Baris Pirhasan, Cüneyt Bolak

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Azizoglu family migrates to the big city of Istanbul from the village of Eastern Turkey because of the blood feud with the Sahvar family. Thanks to this migration, Hazar Azizoglu (Mahsun Kirmizigul) has been raised as a Westerner and has lived his life according to Western tradition all his life. However, the life of Hazar changes radically when his brother is killed by Sahvar family.

The two families have decided to put an end to the feud and it is the Sahvar family’s turn to pay blood money to the Azizoglu family. According to tradition, it is decided that the price is to be the beautiful daughter of Sahvar family, Zilan (Beren Saat).

In order to end the blood feud between two families, Hazar accepts to get married Beren Saat whom he doesn’t know. This arranged marriage brings new hopes as time passes. Hazar (Mahsun Kirmizigul) and Zilan (Beren Saat) find an unexpected source of happiness in this marriage.