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Yargı

120 mins
Drama Legal Kanal D
While she was still in law school, Ceylin’s father was framed for a crime he didn’t commit. There is the law and then there is justice, and ever since her father was sent to prison, Ceylin knows which side she’s on. Ceylin becomes a defense attorney and is known as a brave, dynamic and reckless advocate, respected by her peers but constantly in trouble with prosecutors and the police.

Ilgaz is a no-nonsense prosecutor who does everything by the book. His father is the well-respected chief of homicide of the Istanbul Police Department, and it’s from him that Ilgaz gets his incorruptible sense of right and wrong. For him, the law and justice are the same thing. So when Ceylin comes to him looking for back-channel info to help clear a client, Ilgaz throws her out of his office.

But after his brother is accused of murder, it’s Ceylin he goes to for help.

Aldatmak

120 mins
Drama Legal ATV
Güzide Yenersoy is a respectable family court judge living in Istanbul. With a marriage of 30 years and two children, Güzide Yenersoy has what could be described as the epitome of a perfect family. Her husband, Tarık, is an experienced and successful lawyer, running his own law firm. Her son, Ozan, is a construction engineer working at a prestigious company, while her daughter, Oylum, is studying medicine in the Netherlands, upon her mother’s insistence. From the outside, Yenersoy family has a picture-perfect life based on trust and love, but the truth is completely different from this false reality. Although everything seems to be going well, Güzide is not aware that the events buried in the past will come to light again.Every member of her family, whom she loves and dedicates her life to, is lying to Güzide. She does not know that Oylum has made the decision to go to the USA to realize her dream of studying modern dance. While Oylum is counting down for the day she will go to New York, her family friend Tolga, whom she met by chance at the airport, becomes her partner in secret. Oylum is not the only one lying to Güzide. After not receiving the promotion he was expecting, Ozan follows his friend’s advice of investing in crypto money, but he gets himself into huge trouble by sinking his father’s friend’s entrusted money. However, her husband is the one who commits the betrayal that will change Güzide’s life forever. Tarık has a second family, which he has been keeping secret for five years. When her husband’s betrayal is revealed, Güzide finds herself confronting the reality that her life has been a lie.

Aile

120 mins
Drama Romance Show TV
Aslan Soykan may be the head of Istanbul’s most notorious crime family, but at the dinner table his mother Hulya rules with an iron fist. She has managed to keep the unruly clan together with a set of unbreakable traditions, the foremost being, “You can’t escape from the table!” All that goes up in smoke when Aslan disrupts family dinner for the sake of a woman he just met, the beautiful psychologist Devin. Devin and Aslan fall in love, and as they become closer, the psychologist can’t help but diagnose his discordant family. But can a psychologist thrown right in the middle of a battlefield heal everyone? And can she deal with a narcissist like Aslan without fully recovering from her own wounds?
Drama Legal NOW
Çolpan Cevher is a renowned lawyer and has built the family business into Istanbul’s top divorce practice when her oldest daughter Azra suddenly leaves the firm to join a rival. Stubborn sister Sanem who is also a lawyer remains with her mother, while the little sister Güneş lives her life away from the law. To complicate matters more, their father shows up --- 25 years after running away with the nanny --- to reclaim his share of the family business.

The stable life of Azra is shaken when she learns the infidelity of her husband, who is also a divorce attorney and the couple have three beautiful children together. Despite all her professional experience, Azra is ill-prepared for her own divorce when she reconnects with an old flame at her new firm.

There is only so much room at the top, and eventually, Azra’s new firm sets out to crush her old one. In the midst of a nasty divorce, a reviving love affair, and a bitter business rivalry with her own mother, Azra is pushed to the very limit.
Drama Star TV
Rüya leads a quiet life in Berlin, raised by her father Ayaz and longing to find the mother she has never met. On discovering she is in Syria, Rüya resolves to track her down despite the opposition of her restaurant-owning dad. She embarks on a tense, action-packed journey, on which she will find conflict, intrigue and love.

Running away, she sets off to the Turkish city of Antakya, near the war-torn Syrian border. On her journey, Rüya meets the helpful Yusuf when she misses a flight in Istanbul. She seeks to maintain an air of mystery, but their lives will become entwined as he returns to his estranged family after six years away.

In Antakya, they meet again but Rüya keeps her distance, focused on finding her mother. Yusuf, from a powerful local family, is there for his nephew’s circumcision ceremony and plans to return to Istanbul soon after. Rüya finds a family able to smuggle her into Syria. But the two of them are destined to cross paths again.

The only way to get across the border is to agree to a fake marriage with Boran, who has promised to help Rüya if she joins his militant group. This decision will bring her into conflict with Yusuf, whose father controls one of the most important trade routes along the Syrian border.

Yusuf’s family has its own worries. Smugglers constantly seek to muscle in on the cross-border trade and despite his best efforts to fight them off, his father is threatened by the head of a smuggling ring. When he bravely refuses to cave in to their demands, they abduct him.

As Yusuf seeks his father, he again encounters Rüya, now among the militants. The smuggling ring and the militants, it emerges, are one and the same group. Yusuf tracks them down to the Syrian border, just as Rüya and Boran attempt to cross over into Syria. A shoot-out erupts and the militants flee, abandoning Rüya.

She is now at the mercy of Yusuf, who takes her hostage. For him, she is a bargaining chip who can secure the release of his father. Her days of captivity begin as they negotiate a prisoner exchange. But gradually the hostility subsides as they begin to know each other better. The hostage-captor relationship leads to love.

Behind this wall of intrigue at the Syrian border, a face remains hidden to Rüya. The architect of her misfortune is none other than her father. With the code name “Hawk”, he is the head of the smuggling ring, with the Turkish intelligence agency on his trail. Now aware of this treachery, will Rüya find her real mother? Or will her father deceive her again and bring her back to Berlin?

Teşkilat

120 mins
Action Crime Drama TRT1
Season 3 kicks off with The "Company" being destroyed as a result of the operation carried out by the unnamed heroes of the National Intelligence Organization at the cost of their lives for their country. As a result of this event, the terrorist activities of foreign intelligence services against our country, dating back decades, begin. An attempt to establish a satellite state under the control of great powers begins on our borders. As a result of these threats to our sovereignty, our team, consisting of both familiar and new faces within the Organization, takes action to combat this structure. The aim of the team is to prevent the terrorist state planned to be established, to reveal who the upper mind is and the forces behind it, and to eliminate external enemies. In addition to all these operations, the changing balances within the team and the involvement of new lives will be the beginning of a different period for all of them.
Romantic Comedy beIN Connect
The series tells the enthralling love story of the passionate and beautiful Zeynep and charismatic businessman Kenan, and the rivals who threaten to doom their romance with a web of deception and lies.

The spellbinding love story of the passionate and beautiful Zeynep and charismatic businessman Kenan is told in “When a Man Loves”. Their romantic tale is complicated by the reappearance of her cheating ex-husband, as well as a powerful rival for Kenan’s affections, who threaten to spoil their happy ending.

After her husband Oktay leaves her for another woman, Zeynep is left alone to raise their two sons. Her life is transformed when she meets Kenan, the successful owner of a top shopping website. He has always distrusted women, suspicious of their intentions, and has never opened his heart. But Zeynep changes all that.

Their path to love is thorny and tangled. One obstacle comes in the formidable shape of Yelda, the difficult owner of the company where Zeynep works. Yelda is used to getting what she wants and, after going into business with Kenan, she is now determined to make him her lover, even through trickery and deception.

But Oktay is another threat to Zeynep and Kenan’s happiness While Oktay is now in another relationship, his attitude changes when he learns of Zeynep's new lover. Mad with jealousy, he will do anything to win her back, even if it means lying, plotting, and using their children.

Ah Nerede

120 mins
Romantic Comedy Star TV
Ah Nerede features three brothers whose family sent them to Istanbul to pursue their education but who ended up following their own passions. Ömer is supposed to be studying engineering but instead spends his evenings as a musician performing in bars. Middle son Murat is a compulsive gambler who should be studying law. And eldest son Ferit is a would-be medical student who chases women day and night.

Ferit, an incurable womanizer, has left a trail of broken hearts all over Istanbul when three of his conquests team up to turn the tables on him. Their ringleader is Zehra, a former medical student who dropped out of school after she was dumped at the wedding table. Now she’s using her brains and considerable beauty to help her friends take revenge on Ferit.

Things really get complicated when Zehra tells Ferit’s parents what their sons are actually doing in Istanbul. When Ferit finds out, he blackmails Zehra into pretending to be his fiancée, which delights his parents but creates new problems for everyone involved.
Drama Romance Show TV
Leyla is a successful career woman who built a national restaurant chain from nothing, but she runs into the glass ceiling when an outsider is brought in to run the division. Worse yet, he’s the man who broke her heart at university! Leyla resigns in disgust and starts a new restaurant right across the street, going to war with her former firm and one-time lover. Leyla is determined to come out on top, but at what price?

8. Gün

120 mins
Drama ATV
Bahar seemed to have it all: a wealthy family, a loving husband, and a baby on the way. Then her mother was killed in a plane crash, and soon nothing was as it seemed.

Şehnaz was Bahar’s mother and a senior software engineer at Lotus, one of the country’s leading technology companies. Aziz, a partner at the firm and an old family friend, consoles Bahar at the news of her mother’s death.

That very night, a bunch of goons break into Bahar’s home looking for the computer code her mother had written. A struggle ensues, and Bahar is shot, causing her to lose her unborn baby. The gang’s leader, Ozan, feels guilty and decides to help Bahar against his boss and illegitimate father—Aziz.

Meanwhile, Bahar gains another unlikely ally in Hayati, an ex-mafioso who, for reasons of his own, decides to help her. Soon the two are fighting for their lives as they begin to uncover the dark conspiracy that took Bahar’s mother. In time, the two develop a strange bond, as Bahar is forced to confront her dark side, and Hayat learns that he still has good in him. Bahar will get her hands dirty, while Hayati cleans his dirty life.

Apart from the loss of her mother and her unborn baby, Bahar has also lost faith in her husband. She has given up on love altogether… until Ozan finds his way to her heart. The two develop a powerful bond, but that only leads to more sadness for Bahar.

Ultimately, Bahar and Hayati solve the mystery of Şehnaz’s death and uncover other secrets as well—including the ties that bind the three of them together.

Aktris

60 mins
Thriller Disney+
Yasemin Derin, a famous actress in Turkey, has been living a double life for many years. Hiding behind her fame, this unexpected second life of Yasemin drags her into the middle of an adventure full of secrets.

Ego

120 mins
Drama NOW
A Turkish remake of the 2014 KDrama "Temptation." Elif (Rüya Helin Demirbulut) and Erhan (Alperen Duymaz) are an engaged couple who love each other very much and their biggest expectation from life is to get married and build a happy home. The routine of their lives is disrupted by Erhan's tragic deception and Erhan is faced with a debt that is very difficult to pay. Their lives and psychology will be turned upside down with this news they receive on one of Erhan's business trips. While debt, which is almost impossible to pay, has turned their lives into a nightmare, the offer made by Erhan's boss Sibel (Melisa Aslı Pamuk) will change their lives forever...
Drama NOW
From the shimmering skylines of Dubai to the sun-soaked shores of Miami, Şahane Hayatım follows the journey of Şebnem—an anti-heroine born from adversity—who claws her way to the top of society’s ladder. Şebnem was a scholarship kid attending an elite school, where she was bullied by rich students’ parents and even some of her teachers. Despite her brains, no one thought she would make it to their level. But with a dash of plastic surgery and unwavering ambition, Şebnem seizes the ultimate prize: a wealthy husband named Onur. Their union promises luxury, privilege, and the envy of all who bear witness. However, the illusion crumbles when the ghosts of Şebnem's past resurface, threatening her picture-perfect existence.

Amidst the glitz and glamour, Şebnem’s life takes a turn as her criminal history comes back to haunt her. Between protecting her family, preserving her status, and reconciling the darkness in her past, Şebnem’s life becomes a twisted dance. From her entanglement with the magnetic homicide captain, Mesut, to her rivalry with Onur's haunting ex, Melisa, and the relentless hatred of Aysel, Onur's mother, Şebnem finds herself fighting battles on multiple fronts.