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Original Title: Kapalicarsi
English Title: Grand Bazaar
Also Known As:
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 38
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: September 28, 2009 – October 5, 2010
Production Company: TMC Film
Director: Murat Duzgunoglu
Screen Writer: Gaye Boralioglu, Nese Sen
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Cemal (Nejat Isler), Mahmut (Olgun Simsek), and Arda (Mert Firat) are close friends who live in the same house and work as a salesman in the famous Turkish Grand Bazaar. They have a lower middle-class life and want to be rich.

In order to earn much money, they have to achieve one thing: to find a little girl and train her to weave a carpet which will become a miracle. Therefore, they go to Hereke (a small town in Turkey) which is famous for the handmake carpets.

In Hereke, Cemal meets Diyar (Asli Tandogan) and wants to hire her as a trainer. Diyar is a beautiful, naïve, and stubborn girl. Although she could not go to the college, she passionately manages to improve herself in weaving.

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Original Title: Hanimin Ciftligi
English Title: Lady’s Farm
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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
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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

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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
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.

Lale thinks that the best thing is leaving her family behind before her illness relapses. Therefore, she secretly leaves, files for divorce and keeps away as a sick woman while she is under treatment from doctor Ates (Gokhan Tepe) who is her close friend.

Ege doesn’t understand what is happening and thinks that Lale leaves him because she loves Ates. For this reason, he immediately marries Zeynep (Burcu Kara), the house teacher of his 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.

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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.