Drama

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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: Ogretmen
English Title: The Teacher
Also Known As:
Genre: Psychological Mystery, Youth, Drama
Episodes: 9
Broadcast Network: Fox Tv
Broadcast Period: 4 March 2020 – 15 November 2020
Production Company: Med Yapim, MF Yapim
Director: Koray Kerimoglu
Screen Writer: Merve Girgin
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
The Teacher (Ogretmen) is a Turkish adaptation from the Japanese original series “Hiiragi’s Homeroom”.

Akif (Ilker Kaleli) is a physics teacher in a public high school in Istanbul. He seems to be silent and introverted person. After his fiancée Zeynep (Ceren Moray) falls into a coma due to an accident, he is transferred to this high school as a physics teacher. Since then, he has been working there without taking so much attention from his students and teachers at school for 6 months.

After Akif starts working at this school, one of his students commit a suicide. Akif is determined to reveal the truth behind the suicide of his student Ruya.

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Original Title: Kirmizi Oda
English Title: The Red Room
Also Known As: Själens röda rum
Genre: Drama, Psychological
Episodes: 34+
Broadcast Network: Tv8
Broadcast Period: 4 September 2020 –
Production Company: OGM Pictures
Director: Cem Karci
Screen Writer: Banu Kiremitci Bozkurt
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
The Red Room (Kirmizi Oda) Turkish series is based on the real-life stories included in the novel named Inside of the Medallion (Madalyonun Ici) by Gulseren Bugdaycioglu.

Doktor Hanim (Binnur Kaya) is a successful therapist who owns a therapist clinic in Istanbul. Her office room is known as the Red Room due to the red color used as a decoration. She works together with her colleagues Doctor Piraye (Tulin Ozen), Doctor Deniz (Burak Sevinc) and Doctor Ayse (Meric Aral).

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Original Title: Sevda Kusun Kanadinda
English Title: On The Wings of Love
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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: Sadakatsiz
English Title: A Woman Scorned
Also Known As: Unfaithful, Doctor Foster, Out of Love, The World of the Married
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Episodes: 8+
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: 7 October 2020 –
Production Company: Med Yapim
Director: Neslihan Yesilyurt
Screen Writer: Mike Bartlett (original screenwriter), Kemal Hamamcioglu (screen writer for Turkish adaptation), Dilara Pamuk (screen writer for Turkish adaptation)
Filming Locations: Tekirdag, Turkey

Synopsis
Asya (Cansu Dere) is a 37-year-old general practitioner and the associate director at the hospital in the town of Tekirdag. She has a very successful career and has a perfect life together with her husband Volkan (Caner Cindoruk) and her teenage son Ali (Alp Akar). She has left her hometown Izmir to get married to her husband. She never regrets her decision until she starts to suspect that her husband is having an affair.

Volkan seems to be a perfect family guy. He is passionate, cares for his wife and his son, and acts in a responsible and considerate manner. He runs a small architecture company and works as an architect. Even though he loves his wife, he puts himself in a difficult position due to an extramarital affair.

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Original Title: Baraj
English Title: Nehir
Also Known As: Dam
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 12+
Broadcast Network: Fox Tv
Broadcast Period: 13 September 2020 –
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: 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
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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.

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Original Title: Zumruduanka
English Title: Phoenix
Also Known As:
Genre: Drama, Romance
Episodes: 9+
Broadcast Network: Fox Tv
Broadcast Period: January 25, 2020 –
Production Company: Pastel Film
Director: Serhan Sahin
Screen Writer: Can Sinan (1-9 episodes), Eylem Canpolat (10- episodes)
Filming Locations: Cappadocia

Synopsis
Zumrut (Ceren Yilmaz) is a beautiful young girl who lives together with her mother Ulfet (Hatice Aslan), her sister Meliha (Miray Akay) and her father. She works at a factory and supports her family financially.

The factory where Zumrut works is owned by a powerful family Demirkan. Demirkan family is a well-known family in Cappadocia.

The heir of Demirkan family is a handsome and young guy Serhat (Alp Navruz) who is in love with Zumrut.