Tv Series

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Original Title: Annem
English Title: My Mom
Also Known As:
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

Synopsis
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.

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Original Title: Yer Gok Ask
English Title: Love Is in the Air
Also Known As: Love in the Sky, Land and Sky Full of Love (English)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 122
Broadcast Network: Fox
Broadcast Period: August 9, 2010 – May 27, 2013
Production Company: Avsar Film
Director: Aysun Akyuz, Atil Inac, Ulas Inan Inac
Screen Writer: Eylem Canpolat, Sema Ergenekon, Berfu Soner, Isil Sonmez Sarhan
Filming Locations: Nevsehir, Turkiye

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A wealthy Hancioglu family owns vast estates in Cappadocia in Middle Turkey. Yusuf (Murat Unalmis) is the oldest son of this family therefore; he manages the family business and bears all the responsibility of the family on his shoulders. Yusuf is very handsome, rich and hardworking. Thus, there are lots of women who want to be his bride but, Yusuf wants to get married with a woman whom he loves.

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Original Title: Kuzey Guney
English Title: North South
Also Known As:
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Episodes: 80
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: September 7, 2011 – June 26, 2013
Production Company: Ay Yapim
Director: Mehmet Ada Oztekin, Hilal Saral
Screen Writer: Melek Gencoglu, Ece Yorenc

Synopsis
Kuzey (Kivanc Tatlitug) and Guney (Bugra Gulsoy) are two brothers who have opposite characters. Kuzey is rebellious, fearless, and impatient. He finds himself in trouble most of the time because he can’t control his anger. On the other hand, Guney is hardworking, responsible, calm, and patient. They are so different from each other just like north (which means Kuzey in Turkish) and south (which means Guney in Turkish). Even though their characters are separated, these two brothers are closely bound to each other. A new page opens in the brothers’ lives when Cemre (Oyku Karayel) moves to their neighborhood.

Kuzey, Guney and Cemre become close friends and spend most of their time together. Their fates come to an intersection when both Kuzey and Guney develop a deep love for Cemre.

The day before the university entrance exam, Kuzey decides to reveal his feelings. However, he is devastated when he learns that Guney and Cemre are going out already.

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Original Title: Binbir Gece
English Title: 1001 Nights
Also Known As: A thousand and one Nights (English), Wa Yabka Al Hob (Arabic), 1001 Nok (Republic of Makedonia), 1001 Noshti (Bulgaria), 1001 de nopti (Romania), Hilies kai mia nyhtes (Greece)
Genre: Romance, Drama, Family
Episodes: 90
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: November 7, 2006 – May 12, 2009
Production Company: TMC Film
Director: Kudret Sabanci
Screen Writer: Mehmet Bilal, Murat Lutfu, Yildiz Tunc, Ethem Yekta

Synopsis
Sehrazat (Berguzar Korel) is a talented architect who works in a construction company owned by Onur (Halit Ergenc) and Kerem (Tardu Flordun). She loses her husband and is devastated once more when she learns that her five-year old son suffers from leukemia and needs an urgent and very expensive surgery.

Sehrazat finds $50.000 by her effort but still needs another $150.000 to afford her son’s very costly surgery, bone marrow transplantation. Although she knows that she is an unwanted bride, she desperately asks for her father-in-law but is rejected cruelly.

As a last chance, Sehrazat tries to receive $150.000 in loan from her boss, Onur who is secretly attracted to her. Onur accepts to give her the money on the condition that she spends one night with him. This indecent offer, which turns the life of Sehrazat upside down, becomes the beginning of everything.

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Original Title: Aliye
English Title: Aliye
Also Known As: Alia (Arabic)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Episodes: 76
Broadcast Network: ATV
Broadcast Period: September 14, 2004 – October 17, 2006
Production Company: TMC Film
Director: Kudret Sabanci
Screen Writer: Guliz Kucur, Mehmet Bilal, Yildiz Tunc

Synopsis
Aliye (Sanem Celik) has two beautiful children but an unhappy marriage. She lives in a big house with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. When Aliye discovers that her husband Sinan (Halit Ergenc) is cheating on her with a younger chick, she decides to leave the house and go to her uncle’s house in Istanbul. She takes her two kids with her but Sinan follows her to the train station and manages to take their son away from her.

Aliye starts a new life in Istanbul with his uncle Feyyaz (Ilhan Sesen) and at the same time struggles to get her son from Sinan. She tries to keep away from her ex-husband but Sinan still loves her and wants to be with her again. Although Aliye wants nothing more than to forget about her past and live the rest of her life quietly with her children, she comes across a new love.