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Original Title: Uyanis: Buyuk Selcuklu
English Title: The Great Seljuks: Guardians Of Justice
Also Known As:
Genre: Historical, Drama, Action
Episodes: 16+
Broadcast Network: Trt 1
Broadcast Period: 28 September 2020 –
Production Company: Akli Film
Director: Emre Konuk
Screen Writer: Serdar Ozonalan
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
The story takes place in the 11th century.

Meliksah (Bugra Gulsoy) is a young and courageous man who is the son of Sultan Alp Arslan (Serdar Kilic). He often participates in the campaigns of his father Alp Arslan together with his vizier Nizam al-Mulk (Mehmet Ozgur). Upon the death of his father, he accedes to the throne as the new sultan of Seljuk Empire. His life changes radically after then and he remains on the throne from 1072 to his death 1092.

At the same day of his father’s death, Meliksah also learns that his lover Basulu Hatun has died while giving a birth. Even though his new born son is alive, Meliksah cannot keep him for the sake of Seljuk Empire. Since the mother Basulu Haun is in exile, the baby is not considered as legitimate according to the rules. Hence, Meliksah makes a difficult decision and entrusts the guardianship of his son to his trustworthy vizier Nizam al-Mulk. He accepts not to see his son later on in order not to endanger the life of his son and the continuity of the throne.

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Original Title: Ogretmen
English Title: The Teacher
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Genre: Psychological Mystery, Youth, Drama
Episodes: 9
Broadcast Network: Fox Tv
Broadcast Period: 4 March 2020 – 15 November 2020
Production Company: Med Yapim, MF Yapim
Director: Koray Kerimoglu
Screen Writer: Merve Girgin
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
The Teacher (Ogretmen) is a Turkish adaptation from the Japanese original series “Hiiragi’s Homeroom”.

Akif (Ilker Kaleli) is a physics teacher in a public high school in Istanbul. He seems to be silent and introverted person. After his fiancée Zeynep (Ceren Moray) falls into a coma due to an accident, he is transferred to this high school as a physics teacher. Since then, he has been working there without taking so much attention from his students and teachers at school for 6 months.

After Akif starts working at this school, one of his students commit a suicide. Akif is determined to reveal the truth behind the suicide of his student Ruya.

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Original Title: Kirmizi Oda
English Title: The Red Room
Also Known As: Själens röda rum
Genre: Drama, Psychological
Episodes: 61
Broadcast Network: Tv8
Broadcast Period: September 4, 2020 – February 18, 2022
Production Company: OGM Pictures
Director: Cem Karci
Screen Writer: Banu Kiremitci Bozkurt
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
The Red Room (Kirmizi Oda) Turkish series is based on the real-life stories included in the novel named Inside of the Medallion (Madalyonun Ici) by Gulseren Bugdaycioglu.

Doktor Hanim (Binnur Kaya) is a successful therapist who owns a therapist clinic in Istanbul. Her office room is known as the Red Room due to the red color used as a decoration. She works together with her colleagues Doctor Piraye (Tulin Ozen), Doctor Deniz (Burak Sevinc) and Doctor Ayse (Meric Aral).

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Original Title: Sevda Kusun Kanadinda
English Title: On The Wings of Love
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Historical
Episodes: 31
Broadcast Network: TRT 1
Broadcast Period: 29 April 2016 – 28 March 2017
Production Company: Sonart Medya
Director: Ayhan Ozen
Screen Writer: Oktay Berber, Mustafa Burak Dogu, Selma Haciosmanoglu, Alp Emre
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
On The Wings of Love (Sevda Kusun Kanadinda) is a tragic love story that takes place in 1968-1970s in Turkey.

Tumay (Deniz Baysal/Sevtap Ozaltun) is a young woman who comes from a wealthy family. She is leftist and fights against capitalism while her family supports the opposite of her ideologies. Her father Zafer (Yavuz Bingol) is a high ranking police officer and tries to keep his daughter apart from political unrest in the country.

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Original Title: Sadakatsiz
English Title: A Woman Scorned
Also Known As: Unfaithful, Doctor Foster, Out of Love, The World of the Married, Infiel, Nevjera, Traicionada
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Episodes: 60
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: 7 October 2020 – 25 May 2022
Production Company: Med Yapim
Director: Neslihan Yesilyurt
Screen Writer: Mike Bartlett (original screenwriter), Kemal Hamamcioglu (screen writer for Turkish adaptation), Dilara Pamuk (screen writer for Turkish adaptation)
Filming Locations: Tekirdag, Turkey

Synopsis
Asya (Cansu Dere) is a 37-year-old general practitioner and the associate director at the hospital in the town of Tekirdag. She has a very successful career and has a perfect life together with her husband Volkan (Caner Cindoruk) and her teenage son Ali (Alp Akar). She has left her hometown Izmir to get married to her husband. She never regrets her decision until she starts to suspect that her husband is having an affair.

Volkan seems to be a perfect family guy. He is passionate, cares for his wife and his son, and acts in a responsible and considerate manner. He runs a small architecture company and works as an architect. Even though he loves his wife, he puts himself in a difficult position due to an extramarital affair.

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Original Title: Cati Kati Ask
English Title: Romance Next Door
Also Known As: The Penthouse Love
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: 9 July 2020 – 24 October 2020
Production Company: Mia Yapim
Director: Fehmi Ozturk
Screen Writer: Ramazan Demirli, Gokhan Temel, Ozgur Agaoglu, Seyda Delibasi
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

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Aysen (Ezgi Senler) is a young and beautiful girl who studies fashion design. After she was abandoned by her parents when she was a little baby, she has been raised by a warm family. Even though Aysen is left alone by her birth parents, she never lacks for family love, coziness, and kindliness.

Aysen becomes the daughter of the family which consists of father Celal (Renan Bilek), mother Perihan (Tulay Gunal), grandmother Saadet (Bedia Ener), sister Suheyla (Pelin Oztekin), brother-in-law Suayip (Bulent Seyran), and brother Demir (Yigit Kirazci).

The life of this warm family gets into a difficulty when they could not get 6-months rent from their penthouse and they could not pay their debt for Turkish type dumplings restaurant.

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Original Title: Yeni Hayat
English Title: New Life
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Genre: Romance, Action
Episodes: 9
Broadcast Network: Kanal D
Broadcast Period: 3 September 2020 – 29 October 2020
Production Company: OJO Pictures
Director: Basak Soysal, Cem Ozuduru
Screen Writer: Elif Usman, Serdar Soydan, Deniz Buyukkirli
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

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Adem (Serkan Cayoglu) is A Special Forces soldier who is very successful at his work. He loves his job and is used to spend his time in different locations of Turkey apart from his family. Unfortunately, Adem gets seriously injured while he wants to protect his friend when they are on duty. Hence, he has nothing to do but to leave army and start a new life.

After being discharged from Special Forces, Adem starts to look for a new job in Istanbul. He is married with Nevin (Nilperi Sahinkaya) and has a happy cozy life together with his lovely daughter.

Adem does not have big expectations. All he wants is to support his family in a decent way and start his own business about security guardianship. Even though Adem applies for different job vacancies, unfortunately, he cannot find a job just because he, as an retired maroon beret, is considered as overqualified.

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Original Title: Baraj
English Title: Nehir
Also Known As: Dam
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 39
Broadcast Network: Fox Tv
Broadcast Period: 17 March 2020 – 11 May 2021
Production Company: Medyapim & N0:9 Productions
Director: Hasan Tolga Pulat
Screen Writer: Hasan Tolga Pulat
Filming Locations: Istanbul; Sakarya Akcay Dam (Akcay Baraji)

Synopsis
Nehir (Baraj – Dam) Turkish series is a remake of Turkish movie named Dam made in 1977 starring Turkan Soray and Tarik Akan.

Nehir (Biran Damla Yilmaz) is a young and beautiful girl who uses her beauty to swindle young men. Since she was left alone by her parents and forced to survive in the streets, she has been living together with her mentor Zerrin (Sumru Yavrucuk).

Zerrin and Nehir become a good business partner and work together to swindle young men. While Nehir seduces a wealthy man and makes him fall in love with her, Zerrin pretends to be Nehir’s mother.

The fall guy expects to get married to Nehir and even has a wedding ceremony, but Nehir and Zerrin run away and remove their trace after they take all the wedding presents and hack the credit cards of the fall guy.

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Original Title: Ariza
English Title: Trouble (literal title)
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Genre: Romance, Action
Episodes: 29
Broadcast Network: Show Tv
Broadcast Period: 13 September 2020 – 11 April 2021
Production Company: O3 Media
Director: Recai Karagoz
Screen Writer: Ozan Aksungur
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Ariza which means “trouble”, “disturbance” and “malfunction” in Turkish corresponds to the name of the lead character Ali Riza (A.Riza = the first letter of “Ali” and the middle name of “Riza”)

Ali Riza (Tolga Saritas) is a young taxi driver who has a quiet ordinary life together with his mother, brother and two sisters. After his father’s death, Ali Riza becomes the head of the family and starts to work hard to support his family.

Ali Riza’s life turns upside down when he comes across to a beautiful young doctor Halide (Ayca Aysin Turan).

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Original Title: Iyi Gunde Kotu Gunde
English Title: Happily Ever After
Also Known As: In Good Times and In Bad, Good Day Bad Day
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 6
Broadcast Network: Star Tv
Broadcast Period: September 12, 2020 – October 17, 2020
Production Company: O3 Medya
Director: Metin Balekoglu
Screen Writer: Pelin Karamehmetoglu, Aksel Bonfil
Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

Synopsis
Leyla (Elcin Sangu) is a beautiful girl who is dumped at her wedding day. While she is dreaming to get married to her lovely boyfriend Sarp (Ozan Dolunay), she is left alone without any explanation.

Leyla does not understand why his boyfriend whom she has known from the university has left without saying a word. She cannot accept this situation and assumes that there must a reasonable explanation.

After her life turns upside down at her wedding day, Leyla finds it so hard to get back into a normal life. Throughout these hard times, she gets a support from her mother Meral (Derya Alabora), her father Halil (Hakan Salinmis) and her close friend Seda (Deniz Isin).