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Original Title: Kuzey Yildizi – ilk aşk
English Title: North Star – First Love
Also Known As:
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 64
Broadcast Network: Show Tv
Broadcast Period: September 14, 2019 – May 15, 2021
Production Company: Surec Film
Director: Ersoy Guler
Screen Writer: Ersoy Guler
Filming Locations: Ordu, Ordu Tasbasi Ovasi, Kusluhan Village (Kusluhan Koyu, Giresun)

Synopsis
Kuzey (Ismail Demirci) has a wealthy life and lives happily with his family. He originally comes from Ordu, a small town in the Black Sea region of Turkey. However, he has been living in Istanbul since he left his hometown to study in Istanbul and rejected to work in the family business years ago. When he builds a new life for himself, he never returns to his hometown.

Kuzey’s life turns upside down all of a sudden. His wife walks out and leaves the family behind. Kuzey finds himself penniless the next day and does not know how to start all over again with his three teenage girls: Feride (Gizem Gunes); Mine (Aslihan Kapansahin); and Gokce (Berfin Nilsu Aktas).

Feride is the eldest daughter who is the most supportive to his father. Mine and Gokce, on the other hand, are somewhat head-in-the-clouds. After their mother takes all their money and leaves them behind, the girls also find it very upsetting. However, they continue their lives as always and hope to get over this problem as soon as possible.

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Original Title: Sefirin Kizi
English Title: The Ambassador’s Daughter
Also Known As: La hija del embajador, Elchining Qizi, Vajza e Ambasadorit, A nagykövet lánya, ابنة السفير, دختر سفیر
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 52
Broadcast Network: Star Tv
Broadcast Period: December 16, 2019 – May 11, 2021
Production Company: O3 Medya, NGM
Director: Emre Kabakusak
Screen Writer: Ayse Ferda Eryilmaz, Sedef Nehir Erdem
Filming Locations: Mugla, Turkiye; Podgorica, Montenegro

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Sancar Efeoglu (Engin Akyurek) is the son of a sharecropper who works at mayor’s olive groves. He lives in Bodrum (a small Aegean town of Mugla, Turkey) throughout his life and does not have a chance to take leave from his village. Sancar lives in a small cottage inside olive groves together with his family and works at mayor’s service.

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Original Title: Atiye
English Title: The Gift
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Genre: Mistery, Fantasy, Action
Episodes: 8 (season 1) +
Broadcast Network: Netflix
Broadcast Period: December 27, 2019 –
Production Company: Netflix Studios, OG Medya
Director: Ozan Aciktan, Ali Taner Baltaci
Screen Writer: Nuran Evren Sit, Jason George
Filming Locations: Gobeklitepe, Sanliurfa, Turkey; Nemrut Mountain, Turkey; Adiyaman, Turkey; Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Atiye (Beren Saat) is a talented artist who has a happy life with her family and her fiancée Ozan (Metin Akdulger) in Istanbul. She has been drawing a symbol purely out of her own imagination since childhood. She does not know the meaning of this symbol but somehow she finds herself drawing it all the time.

Atiye eventually holds her first painting gallery. Almost all her paintings have been sold out. Even though her mother wants her to have a stable job, she is determined to follow her dreams and live her life as she wishes. However, Atiye’s life turns upside down with a discovery made in Anatolian archaeological site named Gobeklitepe, the world’s oldest temple.

Next day, out of pure coincidence, Atiye watches the news about Gobeklitepe on tv and sees the same symbol in her paintings. She does not understand how she knows this symbol which was engraved in Gobeklitepe thousands of years ago and just revealed in the excavation of a temple.

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Original Title: Her Yerde Sen
English Title: Everywhere I Go
Also Known As: You Are Everywhere
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 23
Broadcast Network: Fox Tv
Broadcast Period: June 14, 2019 – November 23, 2019
Production Company: Karga Seven Pictures
Director: Ender Mihlar
Screen Writer: Deniz Yesilgun, Esra Cetek Yilmazer

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Demir (Furkan Andic) is a handsome young man who has a successful career as an architect. He refuses job offers from big companies and wants to work by his own with his own rules. For this reason, he returns to Istanbul after working in Japan and buys a small architect company which is about to go bankrupt. It does not seem to be a reasonable choice but Demir is confident that he could save this company through successful management within 1 year.

Demir wants to start a new life in Istanbul. After buying this company, he also buys his childhood home. However, his life turns upside down when he realizes that his childhood home is also sold to another person: Selin (Aybuke Pusat). Both Demir and Selin claim that they are the real owner of the house but they soon realize that they have just bought the 50% of the house. Both of them refuse to move out and do not know how to obtain the whole house. Demir does not want to move out because he wants to save his childhood memories. At the same time, Selin does not want to move out because she has bought and decorated this house after hardly persuading her parents who want her to get married. They do not have any choice but to share the house for a while.

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Original Title: Leke
English Title: Tainted Love
Also Known As: Dishonour
Genre: Melodrama, Romance
Episodes: 9
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: April 16, 2019 – June 18, 2019
Production Company: Tims Production
Director: Senol Sonmez
Screen Writer: Yildiz Tunc

Synopsis
Yasemin (Melis Sezen) is a young girl who has been raised in an orphanage. Even though she has a tough life, she never gives up and manages to study at law school. Now, she both goes to school and works at the company which is organizing events and ceremonies.

Yasemin lives together with her close friend Sirin (Tugce Acikgoz) who works at the same company. They both do not have families, hence they become as if they are siblings. They back up each other all the time and forget their loneliness.

Yasemin also has a little brother Murat who is staying in an orphanage. Their mothers are same while their fathers are different. Murat is a disabled child who is deaf-and-dumb. He has a hard life in an orphanage due to his disability and because of that, he is so introverted. However, Yasemin is so insightful towards her little brother. She aims to get the guardianship of her brother and wants to take care of him properly. Additionally, she has been saving money in order to solve his hearing problem through surgery.

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Original Title: Masum
English Title: Innocent
Also Known As:
Genre: Crime, Mistery
Episodes: 8
Broadcast Network: Blu TV
Broadcast Period: January 27, 2017 – February 27, 2017
Production Company: D Productions
Director: Seren Yuce
Screen Writer: Berkun Oya

Synopsis
Innocent (Masum) is the first online Turkish drama.

Yusuf (Ali Atay) is the chief of Homicide Squad at the police department. He is divorced but he cannot refrain from going after his ex-wife Feride (Esra Kizildogan) and his daughter Elif (Merve Ates). He continues to control the life of his ex-wife as he thinks that his daughter is living at another man’s house.

One day, Yusuf is assigned to a mysterious murder case. In order to solve this case, Yusuf leaves Istanbul and goes to his hometown. Without disclosing his true intention, he aims to collect as much information as possible and eventually, solve the case in a secret way.

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Original Title: Egenin Hamsisi
English Title: Two Parts One Love
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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.

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Original Title: Benim Tatli Yalanim
English Title: My Sweet Lie
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 10+
Broadcast Network: Star Tv
Broadcast Period: June 13, 2019 –
Production Company: O3 Medya
Director: Baris Ercetin, Cihan Vural
Screen Writer: Deniz Dargi, Murat Taskent

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Nejat (Furkan Palali) is a successful business man who is the CEO of a company designing eyeglasses. He has been raising his daughter by himself after his wife abandoned them years ago. In order not to upset his daughter, Nejat hides this fact and tells a white lie. He lies that his wife Aylin is working at Africa for humanitarian purposes and sends letters to her daughter for years.

Nejat is surrounded by his lies and finds himself in a desperate situation. He learns that his daughter Kayra (Lavinya Unluer) is expecting to see her mother at her 6th birthday party. Even though he tries to convince his daughter that her mother might not be able to make it, Kayra strongly believes that her mother would keep her promise and will come to Istanbul at her 6th birthday.

Nejat tries to do his best not to upset his daughter. He even tries to find his ex-wife but he cannot reach her. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot find a solution but to explain all the truth to his little daughter.

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Original Title: Gulperi
English Title: Gulperi
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Episodes: 30
Broadcast Network: Show Tv
Broadcast Period: September 15, 2018 – May 4, 2019
Production Company: Tims Productions
Director: Cem Karci, Senol Sonmez, Yagiz Alp Akaydin, Metin Balekoglu
Screen Writer: Eylem Canpolat, Sema Ergenekon, Cuneyt Bolak, Cenk Bogatur, Cem Gorgec, Meryem Gul

Synopsis
Gulperi (Nurgul Yesilcay) is a beautiful middle-aged woman who has three children: Hasan (Burak Dakak), Bedriye (Aleyna Ozgecen), and Can (Emir Ozyakisir). Hasan and Bedriye are 16 years old while Can is 6 years old.

Gulperi comes from a small town in Izmir and meets her husband during his military service there. Even though she is accepted to Istanbul University (Literature department), she cannot attend the school due to her father’s pressure. As she is forced to give up her dreams, Gulperi never forgives her father and accepts to get married in the hope of salvation while she is so young.

After getting married, Gulperi starts to live in Taskinhan where her husband Eyup comes from. As a bride from a different city, Gulperi is never approved by her parents-in-law. Her father-in-law Yakup Taskin (Tarik Pabuccuoglu) is a strong business man in Taskinhan where all locals respect him. He dominates all people around him and uses his power and money to achieve his goals.

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Original Title: Zalim Istanbul
English Title: Ruthless City
Also Known As:
Genre: Drama, Romance
Episodes: 12+
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: April 1, 2019 –
Production Company: Avsar Film
Director: Cevdet Mercan
Screen Writer: Sirma Yanik

Synopsis
Agah Karacay (Fikret Kuskan) is a successful businessman who has a wealthy life. He lives in a big mansion together with his beautiful and ambitious wife Seniz (Mine Tugay), irresponsible son Cenk (Ozan Dolunay), carefree daughter Damla (Simay Barlas), and his disabled nephew Nedim (Berker Guven).

When Agah’s elder brother is killed years ago, he not only is inherited by a huge fortune but also is taken over the responsibility of his 8-year old nephew. After then, Agah starts to raise his nephew. But something unexpected happens and Nedim becomes disabled because of an unexpected tragedy.

Even though Agah loves his nephew and tries to do his best to take care of his nephew properly, his wife Seniz wants to send this young boy away. Seniz keeps a secret related to her past and she does whatever is needed to continue to keep it secret. Seniz considers Nedim as her enemy since he is the only witness whatever has happened years ago. For this reason, Seniz wants to deteriorate Nedim’s situation by giving him drugs in a secret way.