Best Turkish adventure series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch adventure shows from Turkey, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

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    The Protector 2018

    The epic adventure of Hakan, a young shopkeeper whose modern world gets turned upside down when he learns he’s connected to a secret, ancient order, tasked with protecting Istanbul.

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  • Poster for Diriliş: Ertuğrul

    Diriliş: Ertuğrul 2014

    Ertuğrul Bey and the Knights Templar in the 13th century Alba and step and step with the struggle against brutal Mongols depicts the process of establishing the Ottoman principality.

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  • Poster for Ezel

    Ezel 2009

    Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a successful man, but inwardly driven by one thing - his determination to understand why the people he loved betrayed him, and take his revenge.

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  • Poster for Magnificent Century

    Magnificent Century 2011

    At the age of 26, when his reign began, Sultan Süleyman sought to build an empire more powerful than Alexander the Great and to render the Ottomans invincible. Throughout his 46-year reign, his fame as the greatest warrior and ruler of his age spreads both to the East and West. With his companion Pargalı İbrahim, Süleyman achieves great victories, and makes his name known in the Muslim World. Süleyman called İbrahim his brother, friend and advisor. The television series shows Süleyman's consolidation of his power: Pargalı İbrahim being grand minister of state, reinforcing the rule of law throughout the empire, meeting foreign diplomats, and preparing for military campaigns, all set against the backdrop of the tension between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

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  • Poster for Behzat Ç.: An Ankara Policeman

    Behzat Ç.: An Ankara Policeman 2010

    Centered around a personally troubled, officially discredited police chief and his inharmonious police team in Ankara Police Force. Even though the show usually focuses on murders and other crimes that happens on a weekly basis, the undertone of the story leads to an eventual duel between Behzat Ç. and the rotten department officials and bureaucrats.

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  • Poster for The Pit

    The Pit 2017

    When a mafia family named Koçovars are in danger of losing control of their neighborhood, “The Pit,” their youngest son must come back home, a place he could never truly escape.

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  • Poster for Valley of the Wolves

    Valley of the Wolves 2003

    Valley of the Wolves was a Turkish television drama which broadcast mainly on Show TV and then transferred to Kanal D, then atv for its last season. It was mostly about an agent named Polat Alemdar who leaked into the mafia after his plastic surgery. The scenario has direct and indirect references to the Turkish politics and political history from a viewpoint of an undercover agent. Valley of the Wolves became one of the most successful TV shows in Turkey and produced a successful feature film named Valley of the Wolves: Iraq.

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  • Poster for Shahmaran

    Shahmaran 2023

    In this fantasy drama series, a lonely young woman finds her soul mate and discovers they are both part of an ancient legend.

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  • Poster for Insider

    Insider 2016

    Even though two brothers are completely separated from each other after the imprisoning of their father and the kidnapping of their twin brother, they meet by coincidence years after when both choose to enter the police academy.

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  • Poster for Wolf

    Wolf 2018

    Tasked with risky missions across Turkey, members of a special-operations police unit confront danger and tragedy both on the field and at home.

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  • Poster for Kuzey Guney

    Kuzey Guney 2011

    Brothers, Kuzey and Guney, are poles apart in character and perception. Despite their differences, the brothers fall in love with the same girl, Cemre.

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  • Poster for Price Of Passion

    Price Of Passion 2017

    Ferhat is a hitman working for his criminal uncle. Aslı is a young and idealistic doctor. One day, their roads crossed in the most unexpected way: Aslı is forced to operate on a man that Ferhat had shot.

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  • Poster for Aleph

    Aleph 2020

    When close-to-retirement homicide detective Settar Öztürk is assigned a final case with his case partner Kemal McAllister, they discover a series of ruthless and operose murders. They soon discover they are dealing with a serial killer whose motives are connected with Islamic heresy and sufism. As the case disentangles, the detectives find out solving the case is not their only role in this picture.

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  • Poster for Black Money Love

    Black Money Love 2014

    Ömer is a police officer. After the death of his fiancée, he suffers great pain. The body of Sibel, Ömer's fiancée, was found on the top of a cliff, in a car next to a fairly old, rich business man. After the shock of her sudden death and the accusations of his love cheating on him, Ömer realizes that there is more behind her suspicious murder

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  • Poster for Kuruluş Osman

    Kuruluş Osman 2019

    The life of Osman Bey, the son of Ertuğrul and the founder of the Ottoman Empire, as he established and controlled it, facing internal and external struggles against Byzantium and the Mongol Ilkhanate.

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  • Poster for Errands

    Errands 2021

    Vedat, a veteran missionary, and Evren, a political corrector who has studied philosophy, are the duo assigned for the 'extremely important' errands of a wealthy businessman. This mismatched duo, one of whom closes his eyes and does his duty, and the other questions every step he takes, sets out on a different adventure in each episode. But they clash within themselves, more than they do due to duty.

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  • Poster for Valley of the Wolves: Ambush

    Valley of the Wolves: Ambush 2007

    A continuation series of Osman Sinav's The Wolves Of The Valley. This produce focuses on politics, National Security and Regional Middle East problems. The Wolves of The Valley: Ambush serie also attracts attention by two film; The Wolves of The Valley: Iraq and The Wolves of The Valley: Palestine.

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  • Poster for The Family

    The Family 2023

    Aile is a story of Aslan who is the son of a large family, runs a nightclub. An extremely shrewd man. He is a dark and mysterious character. Psychologist Devin will enter the life of this difficult man and it becomes intense.

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  • Poster for Poyraz Karayel

    Poyraz Karayel 2015

    A defamed ex-cop, who is struggling to get back his son, is put on undercover duty within the biggest mafia in Istanbul.

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  • Poster for Heartbeat

    Heartbeat 2017

    Eylul the stubborn, school girl turns up to be a strong professional doctor by the help of her teacher Ali Asaf. After years of separation they meet up again but not as a teacher and student, instead as surgeons working side by side. Their love is met by many challenges and the inner conflict of the stubborn women who refuse to yield easily to her heart, refusing to repeat the miserable story of her dead mother.

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  • Poster for Söz

    Söz 2017

    Yavuz Karasu, a well-trained Turkish soldier, is in Istanbul with his fiance where a terrorist operation takes place. Dr. Bahar, who is not a surgeon, tries to save his fiance. After this incident, Yavuz goes back to Karabayir and Bahar follows him all the way to give him something that belongs to him. Another incident happens and he is chosen to be the commander of a team whose mission is to catch a terrorist and protect Karabiyir and their country Turkey. The whole team is solid, consistent, and willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their country.

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  • Poster for Jason and the Argonauts

    Jason and the Argonauts 2000

    At a young age, Jason witnesses the brutal deposement and murder of his father at the hands of his uncle Pelias. Twenty years later, Jason returns home to claim his rightful place as king, but Pelias orders him to be executed, and in order to save himself Jason is forced to go on a dangerous quest to find the legendary Golden Fleece. So Jason gathers a motley crew of men and sets sail on the Argos.

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  • Poster for Suskunlar

    Suskunlar 2012

    Suskunlar, is a Turkish television drama series based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of Sleepers.

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  • Poster for Crash

    Crash 2018

    After losing his wife and daughter in a terrorist act, Kadir Adalı decides to attempt suicide via car accident, unwittingly changing the course of his life and the three others involved in the accident.

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  • Poster for Halka

    Halka 2019

    Two men unite against a criminal conspiracy, pursuing a dark past of notebooks, cases, and lies. They face the mafia, money, intrigue, and the terrifying Halka.

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  • Poster for Kuzgun

    Kuzgun 2019

    Kuzgun's family life changes completely as a result of the caliper held against his father, who is a police. Kuzgun will fall into a bondage, pain, anger, and struggle that will last 20 years.

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  • Poster for The Trusted

    The Trusted 2021

    Maraşlı, a former soldier that has left the Special Forces, wants to spend his life with the bookshop he opened. The turning point in the life of Maraşlı, is the day his daughter Zeliş was shot. Maraşlı, whose only aim is to bring his sick daughter back to life, cannot forget the great pain inflicted on her daughter. One day, Mahur Türel enters the second-hand bookseller's shop and that day Mahur involuntarily gets involved in an incident. And that day their fates are linked together.

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  • Poster for The Hammer and the Rose: A Behzat Ç. Story

    The Hammer and the Rose: A Behzat Ç. Story 2022

    The Hammer and the Rose: A Behzat Ç. Story is a Turkish-made detective, adventure, comedy, and action internet series inspired by the novel of the same name by Emrah Serbes, which will be published in 2022.

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  • Poster for Montenegro

    Montenegro 2012

    The Kara family's life is turned upside down because of a wrongful accusation that results in the imprisonment of the father Nazif for a murder he didn't commit.

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  • Poster for The Shadow Team

    The Shadow Team 2021

    National Intelligence Organization members are always ready to serve to destroy the enemies of Türkiye.

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  • Poster for Ramo

    Ramo 2020

    The series will focus on the conflict between the two families and a great love that will flourish between this struggle.

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  • Poster for Vanished 46

    Vanished 46 2016

    A genetics professor experiments with a treatment for his comatose sister that blends medical and shamanic cures, but unlocks a shocking side effect.

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  • Poster for Bandits Cannot Rule The World

    Bandits Cannot Rule The World 2015

    The series tells the life of Hizir Çakırbeyli. A mob boss who entered the realm of the mafia at a young age.

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  • Poster for The Great Seljuks

    The Great Seljuks 2020

    The war of the Great Seljuk Emperor, Meliksah and her loyalist, Sencer against Hasan Sabbah, who is sworn to destroy the Seljuks.

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  • Poster for Payitaht: Abdulhamid

    Payitaht: Abdulhamid 2017

    The fight of Abdülhamid II to keep the Ottoman Empire and Caliphate alive.

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  • Poster for Sıfır Bir

    Sıfır Bir 2016

    The story of a group of young people who live in Adana – Hürriyet District got involved in illegal businesses and became Adana's strongest gang over time. The series, which started as an independent production in 2016 and broadcast on Youtube, has been transferred to Blutv with all its episodes as of the 3rd season.

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  • Poster for Runaway

    Runaway 2022

    Mehmet, a war photographer, Ilker, a reporter friend of Mehmet, and a group from Germany, with an activist called Zeynep among them, cross the border illegally to visit a Yazidi village. The village is then raided by a radical terrorist organization, and they get captured. They are going to have to put up the fight of their lives to escape.

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  • Poster for Wolf 2039

    Wolf 2039 2021

    Second series of the WOLF franchise starts 25 years after the first outing. As alliances wear thin, and notions of global order are shattered, the world of 2039 is on the brink of total war. Dangerous technologies that exceed the grasp of humanity’s control threaten a frayed social fabric. The action-packed story will examine security and war in this near future world.

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  • Poster for Dünya Bu

    Dünya Bu 2023

    Love, hatred, passion, inconsistency, anger, meatballs, headman, shooting scenes, necessary and unnecessary big movements, the rule of law, the desolate man in the desolate man and many more… Thirty-two different stories, one world, from the creators of KALT and Errands.

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  • Poster for Kimse Bilmez

    Kimse Bilmez 2019

    Sevda is a very beautiful and energetic girl who dreams of being a star. Ali has a mysterious past. Ali and Sevda's extraordinary love story.

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  • Poster for 20 Minutes

    20 Minutes 2013

    An innocent pastrycook Melek gets accused of injuring an important politician's son. Her loving husband Ali wants to help his wife to escape from prison.

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  • Poster for Alparslan: The Great Seljuks

    Alparslan: The Great Seljuks 2021

    It deals with the state structure, political events, wars of the Great Seljuk Empire and the life of Sultan Alparslan.

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  • Poster for Filinta: An Ottoman Policeman

    Filinta: An Ottoman Policeman 2014

    "Carbine" The first Ottoman crime show of television history, -Filinta- is a show that presents notions of rights, justice, camaraderie, fellowship and love. Mustafa is a very smart, skillful, handsome young man. He serves as a policeman with his best friend Ali, who is also an orphan like Mustafa. Kadı Gıyaseddin is a -kadı- (judge) who belongs to a well-established family, and was trained in Damascus, Bukhara, Cairo and Konya from an early age. He is of an easy-going and coolheaded temperament. He shows us his refined wisdom in every scene. He also has trained sultans sons at the palace. He is a former mentor of the Sultan. Our story begins with a conspiracy against Mustafa and Ali.

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  • Poster for Bandits

    Bandits 2014

    Kandemir is the head of a gang which conducts robberies. Their main goal is to rob fairly. What connects the members of the gang to one another is friendship. Unfortunately, everything changes after an old friend of Kandemir, Ali Rıza Kaptan’s goes to prison. Kandemir and the gang settle into an old neighborhood which seems quiet and peaceful. However, nothing is as how it seems in the neighborhood. They introduce themselves to their neighbors as the Nevizade family. Protagonists Kandemir, Ferdi, Karlos, Yaren, Bahadır and Derya have had hard times and when they gather under one roof these gang members still carry the traces of those hard times. Kandemir wishes to confront his daughter and show her that he is no longer a man of monkey business, while blood brothers Ferdi and Karlos who ran away from an orphanage still carry the misery of the streets; Yaren who came to İstanbul with the hope of being a famous singer is singing in taverns; Bahadır uses his genius for hacking computers and Derya joins the gang with her acting skills in order to save her father.

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  • Poster for Broken Pieces

    Broken Pieces 2014

    Gulseren comes from a poor background, while Cihan’s wife Dilara is wealthy. They both gave birth in the same hospital on the same day 15 years ago but a mistake was made that would change their destinies. Having similar surnames, an absent-minded nurse mixed the babies and nobody noticed. As the truth about the children is revealed, fundamental problems arise between the two families because of their totally different lifestyles and economic statuses.

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  • Poster for Crazy Heart

    Crazy Heart 1999

    Crazy Heart is a Turkish action, drama and political television series directed by Osman Sinav. The series, which started on Show TV on October 5, 1998, was released on the fourth season, the last season of the ATV. Crazy Heart , composed of 113 episodes published in 4 seasons, ended on June 24, 2002.

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  • Poster for Barbaroslar

    Barbaroslar 2021

    Barbaroslar: Sword of the Mediterranean will take viewers on a historic journey across the Ottoman Empire based on the life of 16th-century Ottoman admiral "Barbaros" Hayreddin Pasha and the adventures of four brothers who become seafarers. The drama series retells this adventure through the stories of four brothers; Ishak, Oruc, Hizir, and Ilyas, fighting high tides and the secrets of the seas. It focuses on their pursuit of a holy secret with the help of Master Suleyman, and during the course of their journey, they make enemies in, Pietro; the Pope's hand reaching out to the Mediterranean who is also pursuing the secret and organizes an attack against their ship. But this doesn't stop the brothers and they continue their original quest to find the holy secret all the while fighting their enemies at high tides.

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  • Poster for Far Away

    Far Away 2024

    Alya Albora arrives in Mardin with her late husband’s funeral and their five-year-old son to fulfill her husband’s last will. However, this arrival marks a point of no return, and there is no way out of Albora. The head of the Albora tribe, Cihan Albora, is not indifferent to Alya’s struggles, but he refuses to let her take her child and leave. Confronting the darkness of the past, hidden secrets, and the harsh realities of the region, Alya Albora finds herself caught in a fierce struggle with her late husband’s family.

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  • Poster for Cirak

    Cirak 2024

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  • Poster for Muhtesem Ikili

    Muhtesem Ikili 2018

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  • Poster for The Bad Penny

    The Bad Penny 2021

    When a serial killer stalks a Romani neighborhood, a hardboiled police captain teams up with a Gypsy crime boss to bring the killer to justice.

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  • Poster for Adanalı

    Adanalı 2008

    Two men who used to be bosom friends have chosen to live in different worlds. Yavuz serves the Law as a police officer while Maraz Ali is the leader of Istanbul's most formidable gang.

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  • Poster for El Turco

    El Turco 2025

    Balaban, a soldier in the Janissary army, settles in Moena in northern Italy after the Battle of Vienna in 1683 and fights for the rights of the local people.

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  • Poster for Reaction

    Reaction 2014

    The enemy of Turkey lives mostly within the borders of Turkey. A group of people who are willing to sacrifice themselves for eliminating Turkey's interior and outer enemies.

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  • Poster for King Shakir

    King Shakir 2016

    Fun and filled with adventures, this cartoon series is telling the story about King Shakir's family of lions who are living a modern city life. Shakir's dad Remzi and close friend elephant Necati are constantly getting into trouble, mom Kadriye is always trying to keep things together and Canan, the youngest but very rational member of the family who is the main problem solver, are main characters of this fun and entertaining cartoon.

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  • Poster for Sipahi

    Sipahi 2022

    Korkut Ali Türkoğlu (Kaan Yıldırım), the most talented agent trained by the National Intelligence Organization in the recent period, reaches important information about the plans made about Turkey after an operation full of action and intelligence. In line with this information, Yıldırım Zafer Bozok (Kerem Alışık), who was withdrawn from the field and whose successful operations in the past was taught as a course at the MIT School, is recalled to duty. There are surprises in the operation carried out by Korkut Ali and Yıldırım with a talented team. Fate brings together the counter-terrorism commissioner Canan (Özge Gürel) and Korkut Ali in the country after abroad, and the duo's business gets very difficult.

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  • Poster for Tozkoparan: İskender

    Tozkoparan: İskender 2021

    If Iskender, a 12-year-old archer with extraordinary abilities, does not return from 2020 to the time he lived, the course of history will change.

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  • Poster for Saladın: The Conqueror of Jerusalem

    Saladın: The Conqueror of Jerusalem 2023

    The television series centers on the life of Salahudddin, a 12th-century Muslim ruler, and his conquest of Jerusalem. It also delves into his challenges and conflicts against the Crusaders, as well as his ambition to unify the Muslim territories of Syria, northern Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Egypt under his leadership.

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  • Poster for Aci hayat

    Aci hayat 2005

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  • Muhteşem Yüzyıl 2011

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  • Poster for Circle

    Circle 2017

    A special team of four is established by the Istanbul Police Department. The team has all kinds of different talents. These four people, who have experienced many things in their past, start working together to solve grisly murders.

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  • Poster for Marnalı

    Marnalı 2024

    Ali Reşat, a man of traditions, is released with an amnesty after many years in prison. While plotting revenge against his enemies in the mafia who put him in this situation, he seeks ways to win back his estranged son.

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  • Poster for Kaçak

    Kaçak 2013

    The continuing life of an ex cop who had worked for a mafia undercover. Ended up killing the mafias son so later on he used the mafias daughter to escape. Falling in a unwanted love with her.

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  • Poster for Kıyma

    Kıyma 2022

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  • Poster for Akıncı

    Akıncı 2021

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