

Turkish series cast
Şükrü Özyıldız
Şükrü Özyıldız is featured in Turkish series on TurkishSerie, including Kurulus Orhan as Flavius, Karadut as Tayfun Karca, Ruhun Duymaz as Onur Karasu, Akinci as Fatih. Explore shows, roles, episode links, and related Turkish drama guide pages.
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Kurulus Orhan
2025as Flavius
Kurulus Orhan follows Orhan Bey, son of Osman I and future second ruler of the Ottoman Empire, as he rises from warrior prince to visionary leader. Set in the 14th century, the series explores political intrigue, tribal loyalty, Byzantine conflict, and the conquest of key cities such as Bursa. With epic battles and personal sacrifices, it continues the Ottoman foundation story through a new generation fighting to expand a historic legacy.

Karadut
2024as Tayfun Karca
Karadut is a heartfelt Turkish family drama about sacrifice, delayed dreams, and the courage to begin again. Zuhal has spent most of her life caring for others, raising her siblings after her mother’s death and living under the strict authority of her father. By the time she reaches her forties, she has buried her own desires beneath duty, responsibility, and the weight of an old mistake. When love unexpectedly enters her life, Zuhal is forced to confront the loneliness she has accepted for years and the emotional wounds she never truly healed. As family pressure and personal longing collide, Karadut explores whether a woman who has always lived for others can finally choose happiness for herself.

Ruhun Duymaz
2023as Onur Karasu
Ruhun Duymaz is a stylish Turkish romantic comedy about espionage, deception, and two opposites forced to work together. Onur Karasu is a successful intelligence agent chasing Civan Koral, the owner of a major jewelry company suspected of illegal operations. To reach the evidence hidden in Civan’s home, Onur begins a fake relationship with Civan’s sister Hilal and even plans to propose during an engagement setup. But his mission is complicated by Ece, Hilal’s sharp and unpredictable best friend, who quickly senses that Onur is hiding something. When Onur and Ece become unwilling partners, their constant clashes turn into chemistry, making the operation far more dangerous for both the case and their hearts.

Akinci
2021as Fatih
Orphaned as a boy, a young mechanic discovers he is the last descendant of the legendary Akıncı warriors. Gifted with superhuman reflexes, he leads a double life — by day a humble repairman, by night a masked protector fighting a shadowy organisation that uses forbidden science to seize control of Istanbul.

Nefes Nefese
2018as Yusuf Alacan
Two families in Istanbul are bound together by a secret so dark that revealing it would destroy everyone involved. When a young woman from one family and a man from the other fall in love, unaware of the history that links their bloodlines, they ignite a chain reaction that no one can stop. As the truth begins to surface — in whispered conversations, old photographs, and the haunted eyes of the people who know — the lovers are forced to choose between the families that raised them and a love that could either heal generations of pain or be crushed under its weight. “Nefes Nefese” — breathless — captures the urgency of a love that races against time, the suffocating grip of buried guilt, and the question of whether the children of a cursed history can ever truly breathe free.

Coban Yildizi
2017as Seyit
Zühre is a young woman whose beauty has become her curse. Sold by her own father to Fikret Karakaya, a wealthy and terrifyingly powerful older man who collects beautiful things like trophies, she is trapped in a marriage that is nothing more than legalised captivity. In a remote mansion far from anyone who might help, she endures a life of silent torture, her spirit slowly crushed under the weight of a man who believes his money buys him ownership over her body and soul. The only witness to her suffering is Seyit, a young man from an honourable family who lives nearby and finds himself drawn into Zühre’s nightmare against all reason. Helpless to intervene without bringing destruction on both their houses, Seyit must navigate a world where honour, tradition, and violence are braided together so tightly that one wrong move could cost both their lives. This sweeping drama set against Turkey’s rugged interior is a story of forbidden compassion, the slow burn of a love that dare not speak its name, and a woman’s desperate fight to own her own destiny.

Kis Gunesi
2016as Efe / Mete
Years after a childhood tragedy separates two brothers and destroys a family, hidden truths begin to rise from the past. As love, revenge, and identity collide, the characters are forced to face painful memories and dangerous enemies. Kış Güneşi is a gripping Turkish drama about betrayal, family secrets, lost brothers, and the search for justice.

Tatli Kucuk Yalancilar
2015as Eren Üser
A group of close friends is shaken when their best friend disappears under mysterious circumstances. Years later, they begin receiving threatening messages from someone who knows their darkest secrets. Tatlı Küçük Yalancılar is a suspenseful Turkish mystery drama about friendship, lies, blackmail, hidden guilt, and the search for a missing girl.

Seref Meselesi
2014as Emir Kılıç
A family from the quiet coastal town of Ayvalık is dragged into Istanbul’s merciless underworld after the patriarch, Yiğit’s father, is driven to suicide by a powerful mob syndicate. What starts as a quest for answers becomes an all‑consuming mission for revenge and justice — a “şeref meselesi,” a matter of honour that cannot be ignored. Yiğit and his remaining family members must navigate a city where alliances shift like sand and the price of loyalty is measured in blood. As they infiltrate the criminal empire that destroyed their father, they discover that the mob’s roots run deeper than they ever imagined, entangling politicians, businessmen, and even the police. A gritty, tense crime saga about how far a family will go to reclaim its name and whether honour is worth the lives it costs to defend.

Benim Hala Umudum Var
2013as Acting
A young woman is abandoned by her husband, left to raise two children in a world that offers single mothers little more than pity and closed doors. Refusing to be defined by the man who walked away, she takes a job at a bustling Istanbul café, where a colourful cast of regulars and coworkers slowly becomes the family she lost. Among them is a man carrying his own hidden pain, a gentle soul who makes her laugh for the first time in years. Yet trusting again feels like jumping off a cliff and hoping the ground has turned to feathers. As she rebuilds her life from the wreckage of broken vows, she discovers that hope is not a feeling you wait for — it’s a muscle you exercise every time you choose to believe in tomorrow. “Benim Hâlâ Umudum Var” — I still have hope — is a warm, affirming drama about second chances, the dignity of hard work, and the stubborn refusal to let the past steal your future.
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Kurulus Orhan Turkish Series Guide, Episodes and Updates
Kurulus Orhan follows Orhan Bey, son of Osman I and future second ruler of the Ottoman Empire, as he rises from warrior prince to visionary leader. Set in the 14th century, the series explores political intrigue, tribal loyalty, Byzantine conflict, and the conquest of key cities such as Bursa. With epic battles and personal sacrifices, it continues the Ottoman foundation story through a new generation fighting to expand a historic legacy.

Series guide
Karadut Turkish Series Guide, Episodes and Updates
Karadut is a heartfelt Turkish family drama about sacrifice, delayed dreams, and the courage to begin again. Zuhal has spent most of her life caring for others, raising her siblings after her mother’s death and living under the strict authority of her father. By the time she reaches her forties, she has buried her own desires beneath duty, responsibility, and the weight of an old mistake. When love unexpectedly enters her life, Zuhal is forced to confront the loneliness she has accepted for years and the emotional wounds she never truly healed. As family pressure and personal longing collide, Karadut explores whether a woman who has always lived for others can finally choose happiness for herself.

Series guide
Ruhun Duymaz Turkish Series Guide, Episodes and Updates
Ruhun Duymaz is a stylish Turkish romantic comedy about espionage, deception, and two opposites forced to work together. Onur Karasu is a successful intelligence agent chasing Civan Koral, the owner of a major jewelry company suspected of illegal operations. To reach the evidence hidden in Civan’s home, Onur begins a fake relationship with Civan’s sister Hilal and even plans to propose during an engagement setup. But his mission is complicated by Ece, Hilal’s sharp and unpredictable best friend, who quickly senses that Onur is hiding something. When Onur and Ece become unwilling partners, their constant clashes turn into chemistry, making the operation far more dangerous for both the case and their hearts.

Series guide
Akinci Turkish Series Guide, Episodes and Updates
Orphaned as a boy, a young mechanic discovers he is the last descendant of the legendary Akıncı warriors. Gifted with superhuman reflexes, he leads a double life — by day a humble repairman, by night a masked protector fighting a shadowy organisation that uses forbidden science to seize control of Istanbul.

Series guide
Nefes Nefese Turkish Series Guide, Episodes and Updates
Two families in Istanbul are bound together by a secret so dark that revealing it would destroy everyone involved. When a young woman from one family and a man from the other fall in love, unaware of the history that links their bloodlines, they ignite a chain reaction that no one can stop. As the truth begins to surface — in whispered conversations, old photographs, and the haunted eyes of the people who know — the lovers are forced to choose between the families that raised them and a love that could either heal generations of pain or be crushed under its weight. “Nefes Nefese” — breathless — captures the urgency of a love that races against time, the suffocating grip of buried guilt, and the question of whether the children of a cursed history can ever truly breathe free.

Series guide
Coban Yildizi Turkish Series Guide, Episodes and Updates
Zühre is a young woman whose beauty has become her curse. Sold by her own father to Fikret Karakaya, a wealthy and terrifyingly powerful older man who collects beautiful things like trophies, she is trapped in a marriage that is nothing more than legalised captivity. In a remote mansion far from anyone who might help, she endures a life of silent torture, her spirit slowly crushed under the weight of a man who believes his money buys him ownership over her body and soul. The only witness to her suffering is Seyit, a young man from an honourable family who lives nearby and finds himself drawn into Zühre’s nightmare against all reason. Helpless to intervene without bringing destruction on both their houses, Seyit must navigate a world where honour, tradition, and violence are braided together so tightly that one wrong move could cost both their lives. This sweeping drama set against Turkey’s rugged interior is a story of forbidden compassion, the slow burn of a love that dare not speak its name, and a woman’s desperate fight to own her own destiny.

Series guide
Kis Gunesi Turkish Series Guide, Episodes and Updates
Years after a childhood tragedy separates two brothers and destroys a family, hidden truths begin to rise from the past. As love, revenge, and identity collide, the characters are forced to face painful memories and dangerous enemies. Kış Güneşi is a gripping Turkish drama about betrayal, family secrets, lost brothers, and the search for justice.

Series guide
Tatli Kucuk Yalancilar Turkish Series Guide, Episodes and Updates
A group of close friends is shaken when their best friend disappears under mysterious circumstances. Years later, they begin receiving threatening messages from someone who knows their darkest secrets. Tatlı Küçük Yalancılar is a suspenseful Turkish mystery drama about friendship, lies, blackmail, hidden guilt, and the search for a missing girl.