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Original Title: Kizilcik Serbeti
English Title: Cranberry Sorbet
Also Known As: One Love
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Episodes: 23+ (each episode is 140-150 minutes)
Broadcast Network: Show TV
Broadcast Period: October 28, 2022 – present
Production Company: Gold Film
Director: Hakan Kirvavac
Screen Writer: Melis Civelek
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkiye

Synopsis
Kivilcim (Evrim Alasya) is a single mother who has two daughters Doga (Sila Turkoglu) and Cimen (Selin Turkmen). She is a strong and independent woman who works as a school manager. She wants her daughters to have a good education, a good job, and a career.

Kivilcim lives together with her mother, and two daughters. Her life turns upside down when her elder daughter Doga discloses that she wants to get married to a conservative man.

Doga is a university student who studies dentistry. She has been dating Fatih (Dogukan Gungor) who is a businessman. Doga and Fatih have different social backgrounds and for this reason, it is not easy to disclose their relationship to their families.

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Original Title: Guzel Gunler
English Title: Forever Together
Also Known As: Good Days
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Family
Episodes: 13+ (each episode is 150 minutes)
Broadcast Network: Show TV
Broadcast Period: November 6, 2022 – present
Production Company: TMC Film
Director: Osman Tasci
Screen Writer: Selin Tunc
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Van

Synopsis
Mihran (Burak Dakak) and Selma (Leyla Tanlar) were born at the same time. According to a wise man in their city, these two persons are destined to love each other but fall apart due to a tragedy.

As the wise man said, Mihran and Selma have grown together and fallen in love with each other. They are engaged but shortly after they get engaged, they break up. Everyone thinks that Selma has set a house on fire. Upon this tragedy, Mihran does not talk with Selma and moves to Istanbul together with her mother. He leaves everything behind without even trying to understand the truth behind this tragedy.

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Original Title: Balkan Ninnisi
English Title: Balkan Lullaby
Also Known As:
Genre: Family, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 9 (each episode is 150 minutes)
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: 21 June 2022 – Present
Production Company: Nebula Film Yapim
Director: Dogan Umit Karaca (episodes 1-4); Volkan Kapkin (episodes 1-4); Serdar Akar (episodes 5-)
Screen Writer: Ugur Uzunok, Nurullah Sevimli, Abdulhamit Isik, Esma Koc
Filming Locations: Skopje (North Macedonia)

Synopsis
Ertan (Emre Bey) is a young and handsome Turkish guy who lives in North Macedonia together with his big family. He has been raised in Turkish culture so that he would not forget his roots.

Ertan lives in Istanbul for four years apart from his family in order to study at the university. He aims to become a radio programmer and for this reason, he studies radio and television in Istanbul. However, his family thinks that he has been studying architecture in Istanbul.

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Original Title: Gonul Dagi
English Title: An Anatolian Tale
Also Known As:
Genre: Family, Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 51+ (each episode is 150 minutes)
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: 17 October 2020 – Present
Production Company: Kopru Film
Director: Yahya Samanci
Screen Writer: Ali Asaf Elmas, Mustafa Becit, Teoman Gok
Filming Locations: Sivrihisar, Eskisehir, Turkey

Synopsis
An Anatolian Tale (Gonul Dagi) is based on stories of Mustafa Ciftci.

Taner (Berk Atan) is a young guy who lives in a small town called Gedelli in the middle of Turkey. He has a cozy life together with his family.

Even though Taner used to be a successful student, he cannot attend to the Science High School after his father passed away. At a very young age, he becomes the head of the family and starts to support his mother, his elder sister and his nephews.

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Original Title: Camdaki Kiz
English Title: Chrysalis
Also Known As: The Girl at the Window (literal title)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Episodes: 34+
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: 8 April 2021 – Present
Production Company: OMG Pictures
Director: Nadim Guc
Screen Writer: Seda Altayli Turgutlu
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Nalan (Burcu Biricik) is a beautiful young girl who is the only child of Ipekoglu family. She is a naïve, graceful, kind, and innocent girl who is 25 years old. She has been raised without love and tender in a big house along the Bosporus. Her mother Feride (Nur Surer) is a control freak.

Feride is a conservative and obsessive old woman who is 70 years old. She is in fact Nalan’s grandmother. She has raised her granddaughter as her own child after her daughter passed away while giving birth. Nalan does not know anything about her biological parents. She just knows that her parents passed away in a car accident years ago while she was a little child.

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Original Title: Cocuk
English Title: The Boy
Also Known As:
Genre: Family, Drama
Episodes: 18
Broadcast Network: Star TV
Broadcast Period: 9 September 2019 – 28 January 2020
Production Company: 1141 Produksiyon
Director: Serkan Birinci
Screen Writer: Nazli Sunlu Kacan, Nalan Merter Savas, Serap Gazel
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Asiye (Nazan Kesal) is a strong woman who comes from a wealthy family. Against her father’s will, she runs away with a man whom she loves. She gets pregnant before marriage but she becomes all alone when her lover passes away.

Asiye has nothing to do but to return to her parents. When she gives a birth to a baby boy, her father gives the new born baby to the orphanage without her approval. After then, Asiye gets married to a wealthy man and starts her new life.

Asiye keeps her past secret from her family. She seems to have a perfect life but she secretly continues to keep track of her son who was given to the orphanage. Years later, Asiye finds out his son Hasan (Ismail Hacioglu) but cannot disclose her identity.

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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: Kalk Gidelim
English Title: Let’s Go
Also Known As:
Genre: Comedy, Family
Episodes: 116+
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: November 18, 2017
Production Company: Staff Film
Director: Hatice Memis, Ozgur Pak, Erkan Nurhan
Screen Writer: Baykut Badem, Hazan Toma, Oktay Berber, Cuneyt Inay
Filming Locations: Yesilyurt/Mugla, Turkey

Synopsis
Mustafa Ali (Erkan Sever) has a wealthy life in Istanbul. He has been living in Istanbul apart from his parents who live in a small village. After graduating from university, Mustafa Ali refuses to go back to his village, leaves his fiancé in the village and starts a new life in the great city Istanbul. He gets arried to high-class society girl Nurcan (Ayca Varlier) and stops going to his village after then.

It has been 15 years since Mustafa Ali went to his village the last time. After then, he always finds excuses to visit his parents.

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Original Title: Ekmek Teknesi
English Title: Bread and Butter
Also Known As: Boat of Bread
Genre: Family, Comedy
Episodes: 106
Broadcast Network: ATV (2002-2004), Show Tv (2004-2005)
Broadcast Period: November 16, 2002 – June 13, 2005
Production Company: Sinegraf (2002-2004), Pana Film (2004-2005)
Director: Metin Gunay
Screen Writer: Raci Sasmaz, Mehmet Turgut, Hasan Kacan, Elif Aktug, Bahadir Ozdener, Omer Lutfi Mete
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Nusret (Savas Dincel) is a baker who owns a bakery shop named as Boat of Bread (Ekmek Teknesi) in a small neighborhood. He gets up too early each day to cook bread. The locals in the neighborhood have been buying bread from this bakery shop for 100 years.

Nusret lives happily with her wife and five daughters. Each girl has her own problem.

Mehbare (Mehtap Bayri) is the biggest daughter who wants to get married soon. She is good at domestic responsibilities and wants to have her own family as soon as possible.

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Original Title: Egenin Hamsisi
English Title: Two Parts One Love
Also Known As:
Genre: Family, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 23
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: July 16, 2018 – January 1, 2019
Production Company: Kopru Film
Director: Mustafa Sevki Dogan, Ufuk Hakan Eren
Screen Writer: Tayfun Guneyer, Yildirim Beyazit, Filiz Ekinci

Synopsis
Melahat (Iclal Aydin) is a friendly and restless middle aged woman who lives in a beautiful Aegean town named Sigacik. After her husband passed away years ago, she has worked so hard to raise her son Deniz (Uraz Kaygilaroglu) and her daughter Derya (Buse Meral). Melahat owns a small restaurant where she cooks Aegean dishes. Soon after she opens her restaurant, it has become a popular destination for the locals and tourists.

Melahat aims to extend her restaurant through buying the shop just across to her restaurant. By this way, she wants to work together with her son who has recently finished his military service.

Melahat organizes an event to celebrate the return of her son Deniz from the military service. At the same time, she pays the deposit for the shop which is just across to her restaurant. Everything seems to go in order. However, something unexpected happens and the life of Melahat turns upside down.