Best Turkish Tv Series of 2012 – 2013 Season

This season Turkish tv will serve a rich  selection of tv series. The competition between this great production raises the quality of the series and there is no doubt that the watchers will enjoy this competition very much.

It is really hard to find which tv series are worth to watch, taking the tv ratings into consideration we have prepared  a top ten list for the best tv series of 2012 – 2013 season.

10 – Emir’in Yolu (Emir’s Way)

Genre: Drama
Cast: Çağatay Ulusoy, Metin Çekmez, Deniz Uğur, Yusuf Akgün, Zeynep Çamcı, Beril Kayar, Sedef Şahin
Broadcast Network/Tv Channel: Show Tv

Emir’in Yolu has a very dramatic scenario. Emir was fallen into love to a poor family’s girl and they were about to be happy ever after but suddenly Emir’s lover passed away. After loosing her, Emir started a tragic journey to his future.

9-İffet(Purity)

Genre: Drama
Cast: Deniz Çakır(İffet), İbrahim Çelikkol ( Cemil), Mahir Günşiray ( Ali İhsan), Mehmet Çevik( Ahmet), Esra İşgüzar(Nimet), Zuhal Olcay(Dilek)
Broadcast Network/Tv Channel: Star Tv

İffet is based on the original movie İffet. It is the story of an ordinary neighborhood girls life, which was small and happy with his young lover. However they were poor and had not enough money to marry. By the way her trusted lover had started to change and left her. The breaking point of the series was the rape scene by her lover, which changes everything in İffet’s life. The the sad story goes.

Dila hanım is a dramatic story of the country yard based on its original movie. Dila Hanım is a modern lady, his lover is a modern educated man too. However his lovers family was a traditional family with power, land and money. After marriage, they went to their village, then suddenly his husband was shot by Rıza bey and he was killed. Dila Hanım was shocked, and she met with Rıza Bey but she didn’t know that he pulled the trigger which killed her husband. The desperate love story goes on.

Huzur Sokağı is the surprising series of this season. It is based on a novel and tells the story of the conservative Muslim life and the conflict between the modern life. The hood of conservative Muslims and the girl of the city is a different story. The love, the traditions and the choice makes this series interesting. However there is a lot of criticism that the series show modern life as the live of evil and sin.

Suskunlar is based on the famous movie Sleepers. The story is as you known, the abused children of the house of correction grows and searches for the revenge. Suskunlar had great success and hits the ratings. It is really a tough series.

The story of series based on a desperate love story and the search for justice. Kenan İmirzalıoğlu plays the character Mahir, who’s father was accused by a murder of a public prosecutor. In fact his father was an innocent man and he was selected as a victim of this murder. Mahir will try to save his father from death sentence and gives everything to find the true murderer. On his way to find the true justice he met with Feride (Bergüzar Korel) and felt in love. His way was not an easy way, his life was on danger, his enemies was dangerous but he must fight with them with everything he has.

Here is our article about Karadayı: https://www.doyouknowturkey.com/karadayi-the-new-series-of-kenan-imirzalioglu/

4- Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki (The time passes)

Genre: Drama
Cast: Erkan Petekkaya (Ali), Ayça Bingöl (Cemile), Aras Bulut İynemli (Mete), Mete Horozoğlu (Soner), Wilma Elles (Caroline), Yıldız Çağrı Atiksoy (Berrin), Farah Zeynep Abdullah (Aylin), Emir Berke Zincidi (Osman)
Broadcast Network/Tv Channel: Kanal D

 

Oyle Bir Gecer Zaman Ki is set in the 1960s and revolves around the Akarsu family. Ali Akarsu is the patriarch of the family and he works as a seaman and the captain of a ship. He is married to Cemile and they have 4 children – Berrin, Aylin and Mete who are high school students and 5-year-old Osman. When Ali goes on one of his trips, he has an affair with Carolin which begins the disintegration of the Akarsu family.

3- Kurtlar Vadisi(The Valley of The Wolves)

Genre: Action
Cast: Necati Şaşmaz (Polat Alemdar), Gürkan Uygun (Memati), Kenan Çoban (Abdülhey), Erhan Ufak (Erhan)
Broadcast Network/Tv Channel: ATV 

Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu is the one of the most popular Turkish series worldwide. It is th story of the man who stands against deep governmental organization, global terror, global secret forces and Israel’s violence.

2- Kuzey Güney (North&South)

Genre: Drama/Romance
Cast: Kıvaçt Tatlıtğ (Kuzey), Buğra Gülsoy(Güney), Bade İşçil (Banu), Öykü Karayel(Cemre)
Broadcast Network/Tv Channel: Kanal D

Kuzey Güney” is a new tv series project, it is based on the story of two brothers who have opposite characters and actually are in love with the same girl.

Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ is starring as Kuzey(means North) and Buğra Gülsoy acts as Güney(means South), and Bade İşçil and Öykü Karayel are also starring. Also their story is a bit more complicated, an accident changes their life, although they live in the same house their way of life separates.
Here you may see our article about this series: https://www.doyouknowturkey.com/kivanc-tatlitugs-new-project-kuzey-guney/

1- Muhteşem Yüzyıl (The Magnificent Century)

Genre: History/Romance
Cast: Kanuni Sultan Süleyman (Halit Ergenç), Meryem Uzerli (Hürrem Sultan), Okan Yalabık (İbrahim Paşa), Selma Ergeç (Hatice Sultan), Nur Fettahoğlu (Mahidevran Sultan), Mehmet Günsür (Şehzade Mustafa)
Broadcast Network/Tv Channel: Star TV 

Muhteşem Yüzyıl is the killer series of 2012 -2013 season. It is based on the life of the Kanuni Sultan Süleyman (Suleiman The Magnificent ) and the love between his queen Hürrem Sultan. The series is really popular in Turkey. The wide cast and guest stars keeps the series always exciting and also the story telling makes people to wait for the next episode. It is definitely rating killer.