Romance

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Original Title: Kotu Yol
English Title: The Poor Road
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Historical
Episodes: 13
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: September 17, 2011 – November 6, 2012
Production Company: Gold Film
Director: Nisan Akman
Screen Writer: Hurer Ebeoglu, Zulkuf Yucel
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Nuran (Sukran Ovali) is a beautiful and innocent girl who lives in a small village in Adana (a city in southern Turkey). She lives with her mother, brother and sister in a small house. She works as a cleaning lady but she never complains about that. She is in love with Resat (Ilker Aksum) who works as a driver at a big farm.

Nuran dreams to have a happy life with Resat just like in romantic movies. However, her brother wants her to marry the rich village aga who offers a lot of money in return.

Nuran strongly refuses that and for this reason, she is constantly abused by her brother. Eventually, Nuran decides to leave her family behind. She goes to Resat and tells him everthing. They make a plan and decide to go to Istanbul. But, out of pure coincidence, Nuran discovers that Resat has an affair with another woman.

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Original Title: Iffet
English Title: Uprightness
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 40
Broadcast Network: Star TV
Broadcast Period: September 17, 2011 – September 24, 2012
Production Company: Goldfilm
Director: Faruk Teber
Screen Writer: Can Sinan, Mujgan Kayserli, Zulkuf Yucel
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Iffet (Deniz Cakir) is a beautiful and innocent girl who lives in a poor neighborhood with her father Ahmet (Mehmet Celik) and her sister. Her father is so mean and tough towards Iffet. He does not want her to go out, speak with boys, wear chic clothes and so on. Despite these strict rules within the family, Iffet secretly meets her boy friend Cemil (Ibrahim Celikkol).

Cemil is a young and handsome taxi driver who loves Iffet so much and wants to be together with her all the time. One day, Iffet attends to a wedding ceremony in her neighborhood. Almost everyone in the same nighborhood including Cemil come to this wedding. While Iffet’s father is hanging out with his friends, Iffet and Cemil secretly leave the ceremony and go inside the forest in order to speak for a while. There, Cemil looses his control and rape Iffet.

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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

Synopsis
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

Synopsis
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: Eve Dusen Yildirim
English Title: Lightning Within The House
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 22
Broadcast Network: Show TV
Broadcast Period: March 9, 2012 – October 15, 2012
Production Company: Medyapim
Director: Mehmet Bahadir Er
Screen Writer: Meryem Gul

Synopsis
Muazzez (Gizem Karaca) is a beautiful and young girl who loses her father and becomes all alone in this world. After her father’s death, she struggles with the difficulties in her life but she never loses her hope. She thinks that she does not have any relative, for this reason, she tries to stand on her own legs. However, she has an uncle whom she has never met. Her uncle has been angry at Muazzez’s father for a very long time that’s why, he has never seen Muazzez. When Muazzez loses her father, her uncle decides to look after her nephew and sends his older son Namik (Murat Han) to find her. Namik explains everything to Muazzez and bring her to Istanbul. Now, Muazzez has a new life in this beautiful city. She starts to live with her uncle, her cousin Sait (Mehmetcan Mincinozlu), Namik and his wife Sayeste (Seda Akman).

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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

Synopsis
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: Bir Zamanlar Osmanli Kiyam
English Title: Once Upon a Time in the Ottoman Empire: Rebellion
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Genre: Historical, Action, Romance, Drama
Episodes: 20
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: January 07, 2012 – December 17, 2012
Production Company: Hersey Film
Director: Altan Donmez
Screen Writer: Ertan Kurtulan, Hilal Yildiz, Gursel Korat, Abdullah Akin

Synopsis
The story takes place in the 18th century when III. Ahmet is the sultan of Ottoman Empire. During that period, Ottoman Empire is exposed to lots of foreign provocations. One of the biggest provocations derives from Iran.

In order to take over Ottoman Empire, Iranian Shah makes a plan and sends his son to Istanbul. He wants to make his son as the next sultan of the Ottoman Empire. To fulfill this plan, he gets the help of Kasim (Tolga Karel) and his sister Canseza (Asli Tandogan) who are the enemy of the Ottoman Empire.

Kasim and Canseza always want to take their revenge from Ottoman Empire because they have lost their father for no reason under this regime. They decide to become partner with Iranian Shah and by this way, try to collapse the Ottoman Empire.

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Original Title: Suskunlar
English Title: Sleepers
Also Known As: Game of Silence (Usa), Silence Game, Tihi momci
Genre: Action, Romance, Drama
Episodes: 28
Broadcast Network: Show TV
Broadcast Period: January 07, 2012 – December 02, 2012
Production Company: Tims Production
Director: Umur Turagay, Cagatay Tosun, Cagri Lostuvali
Screen Writer: Pinar Bulut
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Ecevit (Murat Yildirim), Bilal (Sarp Akkaya), Zeki (Tuncay Mercan), and Ibrahim (Guven Murat Akpinar) are four young boys who are close friends and are living in the same neighborhood. There is also a beautiful girl, Ahu (Asli Enver), who is in love with Ecevit.

These four boys have a normal life just like any other child. They have dreams and at the same time, they have the ambition and energy to fulfill these dreams. However, one day, their lives turn upside down. One tragedy changes everything and ends their happy lives.

During the circumcision ceremony, Bilal really scares and asks his friends for help. They decide to escape from the house and hide for a while until Bilal calms down. However, they are accidentally involved in a car accident. They kill an old man while driving a car and this one mistake transforms their lives.

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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

Synopsis
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: Kucuk Hanimefendi
English Title: The Little Lady
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 40
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: February 25, 2011 – March 2, 2012
Production Company: At Yapim Atalay Tasdiken
Director: Serpil Kurtca
Screen Writer: Muazzez Tahsin Berkand, Hakan Haksun, Yelda Eroglu, Mert Mericli

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Neriman (Cansu Tosun) is a young girl who lives with her step mother and step sister. After her father’s death, she could not have a normal life. Because of her step mother, she becomes addicted to depression pills and she could not believe that she would be a normal girl again.

Neriman quits her education, spends all her time in her small room and is not allowed to speak with anybody else except her nanny Nevres (Zeynep Irgat). The only person that she can trust in this world is her nanny who lives with her and never leaves her alone despite the hardships in the house.