Turkish series cast
Selda Aktuna is featured in Turkish series on TurkishSerie, including Cocuk as Melek Şahin. Explore shows, roles, episode links, and related Turkish drama guide pages.
as Melek Şahin
Akça is the daughter of a prostitute, born into a world that judged her before she took her first breath. When she gives birth to a son, she makes the most agonising decision a mother can make: she gives him up to Şule, a wealthy bride desperate for a child to cement her place in a powerful family. Şule names him Efe and raises him with all the love her barren womb could not provide. For years, the arrangement holds — until Şule unexpectedly falls pregnant with a child of her own. The arrival of a biological heir shatters the fragile peace, turning Efe from beloved son to inconvenient reminder of a bargain no one wants to acknowledge. As Şule’s affections shift and Akça watches from the shadows, the series asks what it truly means to be a mother — is it blood, or is it the thousands of sleepless nights and kissed‑away tears that no DNA test can ever measure? A searing family drama about sacrifice, class, and the children who pay the price for adult compromises.
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