Best Turkish family series

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

  • Poster for Leyla and Mecnun

    Leyla and Mecnun 2011

    Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.

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  • Poster for Kardeş Payı

    Kardeş Payı 2014

    The show is about two brothers and a sister. The two brothers have a plumbing company and they are trying to invent something that would make the world a better place.

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  • Poster for The European Side

    The European Side 2004

    The life and times of rather traditional Sutcuoglu family and their comedic struggles to adapt the high-profile contemporary life of Nisantasi.

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  • Poster for Istanbullu Gelin

    Istanbullu Gelin 2017

    Faruk is the owner of a bus company and the leader of a powerful family in Bursa which is a metropol in Turkey. Faruk meets a violonist girl and falls in love with her. But the dominant mother of Faruk isn't happy with her son's relationship.

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  • Poster for Forbidden Love

    Forbidden Love 2008

    Having lost his wife eleven years ago, Adnan devoted all his attention to his daughter Nihal and his son Bülent. Adnan, who lives in one of the most prominent mansions along the Bosporus in Istanbul with a relative's son Behlül, and his children's nanny, meets Bihter who is also a socialite couple's daughter she is very elegant and beautiful, everyone who meets her get stunned and jealous of her, and he falls in love with her. While searching for peace, safety and happiness in Adnan's mansion, Bihter meets passion. Behlül and Bihter fall completely into each other and become drowned by their infatuation with each other. Their secret love affair will soon affect every member of the family.

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  • Poster for Family Secrets

    Family Secrets 2021

    A lawyer and a prosecutor, whose paths cross with a murder case, will have to work together to find the murderer, and this will create an irreversible breaking point in their lives.

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  • Poster for Waiting For The Sun

    Waiting For The Sun 2013

    Zeynep is a beautiful high school student who has a moderate and ordinary life with her mother Demet in a small city. Zeynep has been raised without knowing her father but she always think about him when she stays alone. She was told that her father was a seaman and was lost in the sea when he was on duty.

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  • Poster for Fatmagul

    Fatmagul 2010

    Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? is a Turkish television drama series produced by Ay Yapım and broadcast on Kanal D. The series is based on Vedat Türkali's novel, Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?, which was made into a film in 1986. The series is written by duo Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu. The soundtrack was done by Toygar Işıklı.

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  • Poster for Our Story

    Our Story 2017

    Filiz is a young girl who has been forced to take care of her five younger siblings since her mother left them. Her father Fikri is an alcoholic man who causes different problems for the family now and again. Despite the fact that they are struggling to survive in a very poor neighborhood of Istanbul, the six siblings try to keep each other happy. Filiz believes that there is no place for love in her life until she meets Barış, a young man who does anything for Filiz and her family, just to win Filiz's heart. Adaptation of the world-famous series "Shameless"

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  • Poster for Orphan Flowers

    Orphan Flowers 2015

    "Eylül" is a 16 year old girl sexual harassment by her stepfather , and her mother did not believe her and she went with "Eylül" to the orphanage , and left her daughter there. Then Eylül become friends with the girls in the orphanage and every girl have a own story. The girls trying to divorce Eylül's mother and her husband many times. "Feride" is an assistent in the orphanage who is always helping the girls when they need her.

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  • Poster for Forbidden Fruit

    Forbidden Fruit 2018

    Three things in life can not be hidden "love, smoke and lack of money". The social society and the events behind the business world are told.

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  • Poster for Golden Boy

    Golden Boy 2022

    A young girl is forced to marry a rich groom. The groom is not only rich, but also allows himself to live without any restrictions or obligations. Will married life change his habits? And how will such a man be accepted by a good-hearted wife?

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  • Poster for Man on Pause

    Man on Pause 2022

    Amid the onset of andropause, a 50-something family man becomes obsessed with change and decides to pursue happiness. Then he bungles it up completely.

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  • Poster for For My Family

    For My Family 2021

    Kadir, Ömer, Asiye and Emel… These four siblings, who are closely tied to each other, lose both their mothers and fathers after a series of unfortunate events. Having lost the people most dear to them, there is nothing they can do except hold on to each other as they no longer have anyone else they can depend on. That is until, Akif Atakul, the person who is the reason for all their misfortunes, opens the doors to a college he owns to them, exposing them to a completely new and different life. This new life, where the paths of rich and poor, criminal and victim intersect, turns everyone into a new person, but Kadir will do whatever he can to keep his family afloat, protect his siblings and keep them all together.

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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 Time Goes By

    Time Goes By 2010

    Set in the 1960s, the story of the Akarsu family includes Ali, Cemile and their four children: Berrin, a law student, Aylin and Mete, high school students, and 5 year old Osman. Ali begins an affair with Caroline, a Dutch woman, which leads to the disintegration of the family.

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  • Poster for Yalan Dünya

    Yalan Dünya 2012

    Yalan Dünya produced by Gülse Birsel and directed by Jale Atabey at 2012.

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  • Poster for Second Spring

    Second Spring 1998

    Second Spring was a television series in Turkey broadcast between 1998-2001 by ATV. First 8 epidodes appeared between 29 October 1998-20 May 1999. The next 15 epidodes were between 17 February-25 May 2000 and the last 14 episodes were between 21 September 2000-11 January 2001. There were also reruns; in 2007 by Fox TV and in 2011-2012 by Star TV.

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  • Poster for Mother

    Mother 2016

    A child being scolded rescued by her teacher after falsifying her death

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  • Poster for Beş Kardeş

    Beş Kardeş 2015

    This is one of the five brothers, not like in the slightest way to another.

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  • Poster for Just Be Happy

    Just Be Happy 2015

    It's story of an unknown town named "station" in Istanbul including love, neighborhood.

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  • Poster for Geniş Aile

    Geniş Aile 2009

    Geniş Aile is a Turkish comedy television series on Kanal D, which initially broadcast in 2009. Season Finale on June 15, 2010 and was run 49 episodes - 1 season. Season 2 premiere aired on August 10, 2010.

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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 Chrysalis

    Chrysalis 2021

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  • Poster for The Girl Named Feriha

    The Girl Named Feriha 2011

    Adını Feriha Koydum is a Turkish television drama series produced by Med Yapım. The series broadcast on Show TV and it is written by duo Melis Civelek and Sırma Yanık.

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  • Poster for Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters

    Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters 2017

    The story of Fazilet, mother of Hazan and Ece, eager to make money using the modeling skills of her younger daughter, Ece. While Hazan pursues a career as a coach in sports, far from her mother's wishes and falls in love with a rich spoiled man.

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  • Poster for Sun's Daughters

    Sun's Daughters 2015

    Güneş finds her prince charming at the age of 35, after raising 3 daughters and completely giving up hope on love. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Istanbul businessman Haluk Mertoğlu, Güneş and her troublesome daughters fall like a bomb into the middle of the Mertoğlu family's life. All of them have different wishes and expectations from their new lives, but the life of the Mertoğlu family is not as perfect as it seems. With the arrival of Güneş and her daughters, the secrets of the past will begin to be revealed one by one.

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  • Poster for Bir Küçük Gün Işığı

    Bir Küçük Gün Işığı 2022

    Elif is very much in love with Hakan. The only thing missing from their marriage is a child. While Elif is thinking about starting the adoption procedure, she learns that Hakan had an accident. And his life begins to change irreversibly. Fırat, on the other hand, finds the trace of his brother Dila, who has been missing for years, and brings him back home. Fırat is left between her mother Ümran, who is prescriptive and oppressive, and her rebellious and Decadent brother Dila. While Elif’s life is turned upside down, Euphrates is unaware of the web that fate has woven for her. The path of Elif and Euphrates intersects in a way that they will never be separated again.

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  • Poster for Yemin

    Yemin 2019

    Reyhan is a country girl, humble, kind and caring, who promises to marry the son of old family friend Hikmet, after he reveals a terminal diagnosis.

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  • Poster for Lovebird

    Lovebird 2013

    Tells the story of Feride, an orphaned young girl who is forced to attend a boarding school. While she visits her aunt during holidays, she falls in love with her cousin Kamran. Soon, their love grows to be mutual and intensifies.

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  • Poster for The Innocents

    The Innocents 2020

    The series follows the story of three siblings of a sick parent: two obsessive daughters – Safiye and Gülben and one son – Han, who has devoted his whole life to catering to his family's needs, shuttling tirelessly between work and home. One faithful day, Han's world will change as soon as he sees and immediately falls in love with İnci. For the first time in his life, Han will seek out his own happiness.

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  • Poster for Ruthless City

    Ruthless City 2019

    The life of a disabled guy changes dramatically after a family from a small town comes to Istanbul. How will Seher behave after she learns that her mother-in-law has agreed with Agah Karacay? What will Ceren do when she learns that she is supposed to get married to disabled Nedim instead of Cenk? Will Cemre manage to save Nedim’s life with her care and treatment? Will Seniz manage to keep her secrets? Will Ceren eventually fulfill her dreams of becoming rich? Will Cenk eventually find a true love? How will the life of Karacay family change after the arrival of Seher and her children? Will Nedim become healthy again?

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  • Poster for Seksenler

    Seksenler 2012

    Turkey's series about the events experienced in the 1980s

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  • Poster for Sweet Life

    Sweet Life 2001

    Turkish remake of "The Jeffersons". Ihsan Yildirim's cleaning business is booming He insists his family move up to Etiler with the "fancy folks." But life in a luxurious high rise holds some unexpected pitfalls for the Yildirims, including Basar's struggle to convince his father that his marriage into a Turkish-Greek mixed family is cause for celebration, not disappointment.

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  • Poster for Bitter Lands

    Bitter Lands 2018

    The love story of Zuleyha, ​​who grew up without a father and works with Yilmaz as an auxiliary weaver in order to earn money for her brother, a gambler. The lives of these two young people blinded by the love of one ordinary night will turn into a dark nightmare. This nightmare will take them first from Istanbul and far away, and later to the estate of the Yaman family. In the first episode of the series, Yilmaz and Zuleyha set out to work on the Yaman estate. However, because of one of Zuleyha's lies - the lives of all of them will change radically.

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  • Poster for My Name is Melek

    My Name is Melek 2019

    Melek will rebuild her life with her family and children. Melek is struggling to survive with her three children.

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  • Poster for Bir Demet Tiyatro

    Bir Demet Tiyatro 1995

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  • Poster for Jet Sosyete

    Jet Sosyete 2018

    The story of a middle class family jumps in the high society unexpected.

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  • Poster for Asi

    Asi 2007

    Asi is a Turkish television drama serial. The series originally aired from Jule 21, 2007 to June 15, 2009. It ran for two seasons on Kanal D.

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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 Komedi Dükkânı

    Komedi Dükkânı 2007

    Komedi Dükkanı is a Turkish entertainment television program that was broadcast between 2007 and 2011.

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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 Wounded Heart

    Wounded Heart 2021

    Ferit is the cherished heir apparent of one of the well-established families of Antakya. Ayse, on the other hand, is a lively young girl living in Istanbul who has managed to stand on her own feet. Ferit, who is about to marry Hande, the daughter of the Varoglu Family, confronts the facts before the wedding and his world turns upside down.

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  • Poster for Ruhsar

    Ruhsar 1998

    Mourning of his wife's death, Mazhar creates a different reality. Mahzar and his ghost wife Ruhsar, who has magical powers, are happier than ever. But there is trouble in paradise, Mahzar's mother Menkibe is trying her best to make him marry someone that she likes.

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  • Poster for Mahkum

    Mahkum 2021

    Firat is a successful prosecutor convicted of murdering his wife and child. He wakes up one day with amnesia and doesn't know why he's in prison. He is seeking to regain his memory and clear his name. He has to escape from prison to reveal the truth.

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  • Poster for Gumus

    Gumus 2005

    After the apparent death of his girlfriend, Mehmet Sadoglu is encouraged by his parents to marry Gümüs, a simple girl...

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  • Poster for An Anatolian Tale

    An Anatolian Tale 2020

    Taner is a young inventor living in a small town named Gedelli in the middle of the moor. He had lost his father so he was forced to support his family therefore he was not able to attend the Science High School, to which he was admitted, although he wanted it badly. Taner’s mother always tried to get him married, but Taner had no intention to do it as there was a love in his heart, which he had not been able to forget for years. His childhood sweetheart Dilek.

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  • Poster for Çok Güzel Hareketler 2

    Çok Güzel Hareketler 2 2019

    The players are playing the sketches that they've written and at the end of the sketch, Yilmaz Erdogan comes out from the spectators and wants from the spectators to evaluate the performances of the players and the spectators grade them.

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  • Poster for Blooming Lady

    Blooming Lady 2024

    When Bahar faces death, she will encounter another side of her family, especially her husband Timur, who seems 'perfect' from the outside. Bahar's sudden illness will change all dynamics in the family. In this period, Evren will become Timur's rival in every sense. Bahar's rebuilding of her life will instill hope in the viewers with often tragicomic stories.

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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 Bizimkiler

    Bizimkiler 1985

    Bizimkiler (Ours, Our People) was a Turkish drama, represented the lives of the people shared the same neighborhood.

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  • Poster for Cranberry Sorbet

    Cranberry Sorbet 2022

    It is about the striking events that develop after the marriage of Doğa and Fatih, the children of two families with different cultures, in a lightning marriage.

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  • Poster for The Rose and the Thorn

    The Rose and the Thorn 2004

    Events occurred in Turkey in late seventies and early eighties.

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  • Poster for Falling Leaves

    Falling Leaves 2006

    When asked to ignore an injustice, Ali Riza Bey, who devoted his life to leave good values to his five children, resigns from his position as District Governor. When his daughter Necla is accepted to a university in Istanbul they all decide to settle in Istanbul. Ali Riza Bey figures out that the city where he was born and raised has changed a lot. His elder daughter Fikret is sad because she left a love story behind, while Necla, Leyla and little Ayse are excited that they will now be living in Istanbul, and his wife, Hayriye Hanim, is agitated. Will the hardships of life let Ali Rıza bey keep his family together or will they completely fall apart?

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  • Poster for Sidika

    Sidika 1997

    Sidika is the story of Saka family and their young daughter Sidika who live in a poor neighborhood of Istanbul. Sidika was not allowed to go to high school, raised to wait her husband-to-be at her fathers home, not even allowed to leave their house on her own. But she educated herself through books, newspapers and TV. She approaches her life, half-witted older brother, oppressive and alcoholic father and traditionalist mother in a satirical and fun manner along with the current political and sociological events of Turkey and the world. She gazes the world through her window as she hungers for all the intellectual accumulation of the universe.

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  • Poster for Remember Darling

    Remember Darling 2006

    A love story at the end of 1950's in Turkey, Istanbul. In the political era of Turkey in that years, two young people from opposite families fall in love. Their families don't allow them to marry. They face lots of obstacles for years.

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  • Poster for Don't Let Go of My Hand

    Don't Let Go of My Hand 2018

    The story revolves around a girl named Azra who is studying abroad in America to be a professional cook like her father. She met Cenk, the grandson of Ferida Celen, on the plane and took his bag instead of hers at the airport by mistake. Cenk who was expelled from his university in America and struggling to choose his own destiny will get to witness the huge turn in Azra's life when her father dies in a fire accident leaving her and his autistic son with his greedy wife.

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  • Poster for Hayat Şarkısı

    Hayat Şarkısı 2016

    Melek and Kerim are betrothed at a young age by their fathers. Time passes and Kerim's family gets rich. Meanwhile Melek's family continues to struggle in life. Hülya, Melek's sister, is determined to run away from her poor life. She will do what it takes to get herself accepted into Kerim's family.

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  • Poster for Super Father

    Super Father 1993

    A family father struggles in maintaining lifelong relationships with three of his growing children ,after he divorced with his wife. In the unique Çengelköy district Fikret struggles with life, beside love, pain, hope.

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  • Poster for The Nation

    The Nation 2007

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  • Poster for Kader Oyunları

    Kader Oyunları 2023

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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 Ekmek Teknesi

    Ekmek Teknesi 2002

    Fırıncı Nusret Baba, eşi Ayhan Hanım ve birbirinden sevimli kızları ile sıcak bir aile portresi çizen Ekmek Teknesi, orta sınıf, kendi halinde bir mahallenin yaşamını, sevinçlerini ve hüzünlerini, hayata tutunma çabalarını ve aşklarını anlatıyor. Heredot Cevdet’i nalbur Ruhi’si, berberi, kirlisi, Cengiz’i ile İstanbul’un en cümbüşlü mahallelerinden birini kendisine mekan edinen dizi, birbirinden naif öyküleri mizah ile harmanlıyor. Fırıncı Nusret Efendi'nin beş kızı vardır... Eşi ve beş kızıyla mutlu, mesut bir hayat sürmektedirler... Nusret Efendi, yıllardır eşi Ayhan Hanım'la beraber mahallenin anası babası olmuşlardır... Mahallede herkes, Nusret Efendi'nin söylediklerine itimat eder ve ona büyük saygı duyar... Mahalle eşrafı birbirinden naif, birbirinden enteresan insanlardan oluşmaktadır... Her birinin ayrı komik öyküsü, hayatları olsa da hepsinin en önemli özelliği birlikte yaşıyor olmalarıdır... İstanbul'un eski bir mahallesinin, gerçek olmayan ama gerçek olması arzu edilecek kadar güzel olan masalıdır Ekmek Teknesi...

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  • Poster for Next Room

    Next Room 2024

    Sevgi Ersoy, a famous TV presenter whose career is on the decline, suddenly marries Fikret Alabey, one of the country's leading businessmen. This unexpected marriage shocks everyone. Both Sevgi and Fikret have had unhappy marriages in the past. They now want to live out their second chances, but it won't be easy. Their marriage means their very different families will come together. The cohabitation of these two very different families under one roof will create bigger problems than Sevgi and Fikret anticipated, changing the lives of all family members, especially their children, Taylan and Şelale, who are forced to live in adjacent rooms.

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  • Poster for Yeditepe Istanbul

    Yeditepe Istanbul 2001

    When Olcay's husband commits suicide and leaves a huge debt behind, Olcay and her teenage daughter, Duru, are forced to move to a slum in Istanbul. They find themselves financially dependent on Olcay's only remaining friend, so Olcay starts to look for a job. Without any degree or experience, she tries to survive doing all sorts of odd jobs. Meanwhile, her neighbors, who are completely different from the people in Olcay's old world, begin to get to like the mother and daughter. Some even fall in love.

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  • Poster for Borders of Love

    Borders of Love 2004

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