Romance

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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
Also Known As:
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.

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Original Title: Son
English Title: The End
Also Known As: Runner, Yeh Hai Meri Kahani, لغز الماضي , Lögnen
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Drama
Episodes: 25
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: January 7, 2012 – July 7, 2012
Production Company: Ay Yapim
Director: Uluc Bayraktar
Screen Writer: Berkun Oya

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Aylin (Nehir Erdogan) is a beautiful married woman and loves her husband Selim (Yigit Ozsener) so much. They have a wonderful life: they are rich, they are successful at their works, and they have a 7 year-old son. Their life is just perfect. However, this perfect life turns upside down after Selim’s business trip to Frankfurt, Germany.

Before this business trip, they organize a birthday party for their son. They invite their loved ones. Their close friend Halil (Engin Altan Duzyatan) also comes to the party with his wife Alev (Berrak Tuzunatac).

Halil is both a business partner of Aylin at the architecture company and a childhood friend of Selim. They have spent their childhood together and Halil’s parents have raised Selim when he lost his parents and his twin in a traffic accident. Unfortunately, unlike his close friend, Halil is not happy at his marriage with Alev. They have lots of discussions and they are on the verge of divorce.

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Original Title: Annem
English Title: My Mom
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 64
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: August 30, 2007 – May 28, 2009
Production Company: Gold Film
Director: Faruk Teber
Screen Writer: Gamze Ozer
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Zeynep (Vahide Gordum) and Musa (Talat Bulut) meet at university and fall in love with each other. They get married and live happilly afterwards. However, this happiness continues only for 3 years. After 3 years of their marriage, Zeynep discovers her husband’s betrayal during her pregnancy. She never forgives her husband and gets divorced from him without telling about the baby.

After divorce, Zeynep starts a new life. She moves to her father’s small house and tries to survive through selling meatballs in the bazaar. She suffers a lot while raising her daugher Gonca (Duygu Yetis) but never gives up working hard.

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Original Title: Lale Devri
English Title: The Tulip Age
Also Known As: Polje lala, Láska v Istanbule, Lale, Лале, لاله دوره, Сезони на любовта, Junoon Tere Pyar Ka, و حب في مهب الريح
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 135
Broadcast Network: Show TV, Fox TV
Broadcast Period: September 14, 2010 – February 8, 2014
Production Company: Avsar Film
Director: Kemal Uzun, Merve Girgin, Yasin Uslu
Screen Writer: Berfu Soner, Eylem Canbolat, Isil Sonmez Sarhan, Sema Ergenekon, Sebnem Citak

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A wealthy Ilgaz family is a typical conservative Anatolian family which is very successful and at the peak of their business. The only son of Ilgaz family is Cinar (Tolgahan Sayisman) who is very handsome and successful. Cinar is very respectful to his mother Ikbal (Gul Onat) and his uncle Necip (Kenan Bal) who are stick to traditions and would do anything to keep the family together.

On the other hand, Taskiran family is a long-established,wealthy and modern family from Istanbul. After the death of the family patriarch, Taskiran family faces with bankruptcy. The mother of the family, Zumrut (Hatice Aslan) is an ambitious person and would do anything to keep her standards high. She has two girls Lale (Emina Sandal) and Yesim (Serenay Sarikaya).

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Original Title: Adini Feriha Koydum
English Title: The Girl Named Feriha
Also Known As: Fariha, أسميتها فريحة , Огледален свят, فریحہ , Djevojka imena Feriha, Feriha, Сила кохання Феріхи(Force of Feriha’s love), Фериха, Zvala se Feriha, El Secreto de Feriha, A Girl Named Feriha, I Named Her Feriha
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 67
Broadcast Network: Show TV
Broadcast Period: January 7, 2011 – June 29, 2012
Production Company: MED Yapim
Director: Merve Girgin, Baris Yos
Screen Writer: Melis Civelek, Sirma Yanik

Synopsis
Feriha (Hazal Kaya) is a clever and beautiful young girl who lives in a luxury neighbourhood but belongs to a poor family. Her father (Metin Cekmez) works as a maintenance guy in a big apartment block where the management provides them a small living place , at the grand floor of the building.

Feriha’s mother (Vahide Gordum) also helps her father through working as a cleaning lady in the same block. Feriha lives with her parents and her twin brother and sometimes helps her parents to do apartment chores. She collects the trashes, cleans the apartment stairs and carries out the orders of the residents.

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Original Title: Umutsuz Ev Kadinlari
English Title: Desperate Housewives
Also Known As: Domaćice sa Bosfora, Γυναίκες σε Απόγνωση, نساء حائرات , نساء حائرات, Shtepiake Te Deshperuara, Amas de Casa Desesperadas
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 154
Broadcast Network: Kanal D (2011-2013), FOX Tv (2013-2014), TV2
Broadcast Period: October 02, 2011 – June 19, 2014
Production Company: Med Yapim
Director: Eylem Koza, Merve Girgin
Screen Writer: Gul Gursoy, Hatice Meryem, Yelda Eroglu
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
This tv series is a Turkish version of Desperate Housewives.

Elif (Ceyda Duvenci) is a good mother who devoted herself to her four children and could not go back to her job again.

Emel (Ozge Ozder) is a beautiful widow who makes a living through her death husband’s salary and now searches for a new love.

Nermin (Bennu Yildirimlar) is a picky and difficult woman who unknowingly destroys her family relations.

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Original Title: Bir Gunah Gibi
English Title: Like a Sin
Also Known As:
Genre: Romance, Drama, Historical
Episodes: 1+
Broadcast Network: Atv
Broadcast Period: October 6, 2011 –
Production Company: Most Production
Director: Gul Oguz
Screen Writer: Ayca Mutlugil, Nuray Uslu

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Benan (Ozge Borak) is a cheerful and beautiful young girl who goes to the university and studies at Turkish literature. She gets her father recognition all the time. For this reason, her sister Figen (Hande Soral) is jealous of all the attention that Benan receives. She blames her sister for getting their father’s love and therefore, tries anything to destroy Benan’s life in every aspect.

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Original Title: Yalanci Bahar
English Title: False Spring
Also Known As: Shadows of the Past
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 9
Broadcast Network: Star Tv
Broadcast Period: September 05, 2011 – October 31, 2011
Production Company: Gold Film
Director: Serkan Ipekoren
Screen Writer: Nil Gulec Unsal, Ozlem Dumludag, Atilla Unsal, Emre Ozdur, Savas Saylan

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Karaman family is a well-known and respected family in Istanbul. Zeynep (Fahriye Evcen) is the daughter-in-law of this family. She is married to Mehmet (Serkan Ercan) and has a son named Omer.

Zeynep is a lovely young woman who has a secret that she cannot tell even Mehmet about. This secret has haunted her for most of her life and is a heavy burden on her shoulders. Although Zeynep has concealed the secret for ten years, one day she realizes that she cannot escape from this secret at all.