Why is Sen Çal Kapımı – You Knock on My Door is So Popular and Beloved?
Sen Çal Kapımı – You Knock on My Door, the Turkish rom-com series, is one of the most popular Turkish TV shows. What’s more, its popularity has been growing both on TV and social media. The series breaks its own rating records every week, once again. The fan base of the series is growing and so, it is spreading all over the world! So what is it that makes “Sen Çal Kapımı” (“You Knock on My Door”) so popular and beloved? Today, we have decided to work through this particular matter.
Before diving into this article, you should read our article about You Knock On My Door to learn more about the story and other special details of the series.

A Huge Fan Base of Sen Çal Kapımı – You Knock on My Door
First of all, we must tell you this: The series is commercially one of the most successful Turkish TV shows. In addition, it is one of the most-watched series of the week as well as having the biggest fan group. But wait a minute: to what does the series owe this incredible success? How can we explain that the series having more than 1.7 million followers on Instagram? Because it is huge, isn’t it?
Then, let’s take a step back and see what is going on in Sen Çal Kapımı?

A Brief Summary of You Knock My Door – Sen Çal Kapımı
Eda (played by Hande Erçel) is a girl who lost her mother and father and lives a humble life with her aunt. She is also studying at university with a scholarship and earns a scholarship to continue her education in Italy.
Her family, by the way, is from Mardin. In fact, the financial situation on the father’s side is very good, but they broke the relationship.

As for Serkan Bolat (played by Kerem Bürsin), he is one of the partners of the company that gives scholarships to Eda. Selin (played by Bilge Önal), with whom he has been together for a long time, is about to marry now, which he does not approve of. So, Serkan is a very disciplined, prescriptive, even a little harsh type.
Serkan also has a dark past. He lost his brother in a traffic accident, he loves his mother very much. His mother was unable to leave the house after the accident and she has agoraphobia. Namely, she is an intrusive woman who wants to control everything.

We Need Hostility and Here is What We’ve Got!
Eda’s arch-enemy becomes Serkan Bolat after this time. Serkan, who stopped her scholarship, and thus, prevented her from going abroad. Even more, Serkan also caused Eda to stay away from her lover.

Eda’s girlfriend has already gone to Italy. If the scholarship had continued, she would have been gone, too. However, from now on, whether she goes to Italy or not, it doesn’t matter anymore as her lover has already found there someone else.
The More Hostility We Have, The More Attractive the Series Gets!
Therefore, here is another enemy that Serkan has! In the universe of TV series, all businessmen have a businessman enemy. Serkan also hates Kaan (played by İsmail Ege Şaşmaz), who is trying to take over the company.

This is why he does not want his ex-lover Selin (played by Bilge Önal) to marry Kaan’s friend Ferit. So, he’s still not in love with Selin or anything. His one and only fear are that the possibility they may aim to take over the company.
Paths Cross in Sen Çal Kapımı!
We distributed a lot, let’s collect it. Serkan is coming to Eda’s school for the conference. Eda cries out there for the cut scholarships and disgraces Serkan. Even, she draws his car and writes on Serkan’s car. By the way, Serkan does not know that the scholarships are cut. So, he is not quite guilty.

Then, following this incident, Serkan takes Eda into his car and they set off-road together. As they handcuffed together, he asks her to spend the day together with him.
A Collaboration Develops Between Serkan and Eda
In short, first, a mandatory collaboration develops between Serkan and Eda because he needs to pretend like Eda is his girlfriend. And Eda has to accept this role-play because Serkan promises to give Eda’s scholarship back.

This is a 2-month-long agreement, which means if Eda agrees to pretend as Serkan’s girlfriend, Serkan will return her scholarship back at the end of this time. However, they overtake seriously this game, give poses to the magazine, make interviews together in front of cameras. Thus, the whole country, Turkey, deem there is a love between the two. But funny thing is that there is love in progress!
Perfect Harmony of Kerem Bürsin and Hande Erçel
The two have made a great TV couple. Apart from their characters on Sen Çal Kapımı, the Turkish actor and the Turkish actress spend a lot of time together, too, in their private times. They take selfies together and share them on Instagram. So that, one of their selfies reached more than 3 million likes on Instagram that is the biggest number ever in Instagram Turkey’s history!

An Amazing PR for Sen Çal Kapımı
The actors of the production, who constantly share behind-the-scenes footage from the series, also make their own PR. We can feel them having great fun. In fact, we can say that even the very active social media account came from behind the actors.
When did Sen Çal Kapımı Begin?
The Turkish TV series began broadcasting on July 8, 2020. The series has already left behind 36 episodes and this Saturday (and every Saturday, too), it is going to be on Fox TV at 20.00 with the 37th episode.

YouKnock My Door – Sen Çal Kapımı on Social Media
While two of the leading roles of the series, Hande Erçel and Kerem Bürsin, have millions of followers on Instagram, the series also has 1.7 million followers, which is the biggest number that a TV series has ever had! In the meantime, Hande Erçel’s Instagram account has 20 million followers. And as for Kerem Bürsin’s Instagram account, he has 7 million followers.
- instagram.com/sencalkapimi
- twitter.com/Sen_Cal_Kapimi
- facebook.com/sencalkapimi
- SenÇalKapımı/YouTube
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