6 Turkish movies and TV series worth watching again and again

6 Turkish films and TV series worth watching again and again

Turkish projects are gaining popularity from year to year. Among them, there are both those that are worth watching once and those that make you want to watch again and again. Below is a list of such films and TV series.

**“Ask Your Heart” (2010)**

*Starring: Tuba Buyukustun, Cahit Eje, Hakan Eratik and others.*

This film depicts a touching and sad love story of two people who are compatible with each other. The gentle Esma and the passionate Mustafa fall in love with each other and cannot imagine their lives without each other. However, one of them hides his true faith. At that time, Christians were forced to go into hiding, bury their dead in Muslim cemeteries, and pay taxes. The Ottoman Empire introduces a series of reforms, as a result of which Christians receive equal rights with Muslims. The church calls on its followers to stop hiding, but society is not yet ready for this. The struggle between religions continues, and this has a serious impact on the lives of lovers.

**“The Lost” (2013-2014)**

*Starring: Mete Horozoglu, Asli Enver, Kaan Tashaner and others.*

The wealthy and influential Özdemir family organizes a party. While they are chatting with high-class guests, men dressed as police officers enter the house and kidnap their son Kerem. Later it turns out that these “police officers” were actually criminals in disguise. The young man's father, Kemal, is ready to do anything to save his son: he uses his acquaintances and agrees to give up all his property, but everything is useless, the search is fruitless. Then he turns to Mehmet Kantarji, a former police officer who is now a private investigator of crimes. But it turns out that the main goal of the thieves is not only to make money.

**“Little Bride” (2013-2015)**

*Starring: Gozde Mukavelat, Ufuk Shen, Orhan Şimşek and others.*

The events revolve around two families - the rich and influential Kerman family and the poor Kara couple who serve them. Ferman Kara falls in love with the Kermans' daughter and wants to marry her. The girl loves him too, but the wealthy family opposes this, because they believe that their daughters need to find equal partners. Then the lovers decide to run away, but they are soon caught up and now they are in danger of death. Then Zahra's father (Ferman's sister) decides to give her up to the son of the insulted Kerman family. So the 13-year-old girl becomes the wife of a young man in a wheelchair and becomes a bride for his cruel family. But this test is not the only one: Zahra's mother, before her death, reveals that she is her stepmother. At that moment, a woman named Melek returns to the city, thinking that her newborn daughter is dead.

**“My Father and My Son” (2005)**

*Starring: Çetin Tekindor, Fikret Kuşkan, Ege Tanman and others.*

Long ago, Hüseyin Efendi sends his son Sadık from the village to the city. There, Sadiq was supposed to study agricultural engineering to take his father's place on the family farm. However, the young man became obsessed with journalism and political activism, incurring his father's wrath. Sadiq arranged his personal life: he got married, they were expecting a child. But on the day the baby was born, a military coup took place in Turkey, all services stopped, and no one could get the woman to the hospital. She gave birth to her child on the street and died. Sadiq raised his son Deniz on his own. He was imprisoned for his political views and came out of there seriously ill. Now he wants to hand his son over to his parents to raise. When Sadiq returned to his farm, he tried for a long time to restore relations with his father for the sake of his son's dignity. Having become a father himself, he began to understand his father's behavior, which had previously seemed unbearable.

**“Precious Time” (2010-2013)**

*Starring: Ayca Bingol, Yildiz Cagri Atiksoy, Aras Bulut Iynimlı and others.*

The events of the series revolve around the Akarsu family. The head of the family is Ali, a sailor, a ship captain. He has a wife, Jamila, and four children: law student Berrin, high school students Aylin and Mete, and little Osman. In addition, Ali has a mistress, Caroline, who destroyed his family. When she breaks into Akarsu’s house, Jamila stabs him with a knife. Caroline survives and sets Ali a condition: if he divorces his wife and marries her, she will withdraw her application to the police. Thus, each character is plunged into a whirlpool of difficult choices, blackmail, and betrayals, and faces incredible trials.

**“The Pains of Life” (2005-2007)**

*Starring: Kenan Imirzalioglu, Selin Demiratar, Oguz Galeli and others.*

Mehmet and Nermin live in the suburbs of Istanbul, work hard to get married and have a good house. But no amount of hard work brings them closer to their dream of escaping poverty. One day, the handsome and wealthy Ender sees Nermin and falls in love with her. Nermin marries Ender, leaves her lover in the past, and begins to live a comfortable life. Mehmet still loves her and dreams of taking revenge on his rich rival and Nermin's current husband for betrayal. To do this, he hatches a criminal plan to quickly gain wealth and return the love of his beloved.