Reviews

I was skeptical when I first started the series whether it would be too dramatic like the other Turkish tv series that I have watched before. I expected that I would be bored after 2 episodes max but it turns out I finished the whole season in 3 days with my busy schedule. I loved to see Istanbul in such different textures and the characters like outsiders/misfits. Hakan is an unaccomplished boy who dreams a lot but doesn't take a solid initiative. He has failed a lot of times but you kinda understand that he is waiting for his destiny. After that you see a good reliable story about Ottoman times and Christian&Muslim legends. I don't want to give any spoilers but just go watch it. You won't regret.

Another great social-problem based Turkish movie that anyone can watch. To understand this movie truely you have to know some facts about Turkey like the 70's distant villages lack of resources of any kind like clean water, doctor, medicine, education etc., poverty and still ongoing problems about Kurdish minority whose been severely criticised for their language/freedom rights and the fighting guerillas living in the mountains who can only gain money illegally like smuggling. After that you can truely understand it. Apart from the social aspects of the movie it has a very western vibe to it. Slow sequences of repetitive events makes it truely powerful. Also the movie contains some (for its time very well done) graphic violence. A cult classic of Yilmaz Guney one of my favourite Turkish actors.