Poyraz Karayel
Poyraz Karayel | |
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Genre | Drama Action Romance Thriller |
Written by | Ethem Özışık |
Directed by | Çağrı Vila Lostuvalı (seasons 1 and 2) Osman Taşci (season 3) |
Starring | İlker Kaleli Burçin Terzioğlu Musa Uzunlar |
Country of origin | Turkey's |
Original language | Turkish |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 82 |
Production | |
Producer | Hayri Aslan |
Production location | Istanbul |
Running time | 120-150 minutes |
Production company | Limon Film |
Release | |
Original network | Kanal D |
Original release | January 7, 2015 March 1, 2017 | –
Chronology | |
Followed by | (movie) |
External links | |
Website |
Poyraz Karayel is a Turkish drama television series that was broadcast on Kanal D from 2015 to 2017.[1][2] It stars İlker Kaleli as Poyraz Karayel and Burçin Terzioğlu as Ayşegül Umman. After its last episode aired on March 1, 2017, it broke records and became the best Turkish action series, it was so successful that they produced a movie of it, and in 2019 a book with which despite the restrictions due to Covid-19 The pandemic reached the highest number of figures in the publisher, more than 500,000 people were waiting in the outskirts and 2 million copies were sold in one day, so much so that that same day sales were even sold out on Amazon.
Plot[]
Season 1[]
Poyraz meets Aysegul in a taxi and further in the episodes he falls in love with her. However he doesn't know that Aysegul is Bahri Umman's daughter, which although he finds out he decides not to tell Aysegul that he is working with her father. Further in season 1 Poyraz finds out that the chief police 'Mumtaz' has lied to him and that it was Mumtaz's fault that he got blamed of committing a crime. He then also finds out that the person that gave Mumtaz the command to pull Poyraz in this trap was his father in law Unsal. In the meantime Bahri Umman finds out that his daughter and Poyraz are together, which leads to chaos.
Season 2[]
In the second season of Poyraz Karayel, Poyraz's sister Meltem Karayel is introduced. Further in the season Poyraz and the other characters find out that the man that they know as Poyraz's dad is actually his step father. Poyraz then finds out that his actual father is Adil Topal and that Adil Topal is Bahri Umman's enemy from 30 years ago. This then leads to Poyraz and the crew to get revenge from Adil Topal who dies soon in season 2. However the death of Adil Topal doesn't leave the Umman household with a happy end as after Adil Topal's son, Poyraz's half brother Neset Topal, replaces his fathers place and starts to sell drugs abroad. He also has psychological problems and has a onesided love towards Aysegul. The second seasons carries on with Poyraz and his crew to stop and kill Neset, which they finally do. However, not everything ends as they wish as at the end of season 2 Poyraz is shot dead.
Season 3[]
Poyraz wasn't dead. He returns to Istanbul after being held hostage for two years by a terrorist group he had been investigating. He comes back right on the day of Aysegul's wedding. Things will take a strange turn, because both Poyraz and Aysegul feel like they have been betrayed by the other. After a series of arguments and confessions, the two of them reunite and Aysegul manages to get a divorce. They get engaged. Zulficar and Meltem eventually have three children, Aysegul is murdered by her former mother-in-law and Poyraz goes insane. Bahri dies a few months after Aysegul's death, leaving Sadretin as the head of the Istanbul mafia.
Cast[]
Actor/Actress | Character | Episodes |
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İlker Kaleli | Ahmet Poyraz Karayel | 1-82 |
Burçin Terzioğlu | Müzeyyen Ayşegül Umman Çilingir | 1-82 |
Musa Uzunlar | Bahri Umman | 1-82 |
Begüm Özbakan | 16- 62 | |
Sadreddin Umman | 1-82 | |
Özkan Uğur | İsmail Karayel/Adil Topal | 28- 42 |
Sinan Karayel | 1-82 | |
Kanbolat Görkem Arslan | Sefer Kılıçaslan | 1- 46 |
Celil Nalçakan | Zülfikar Ülger | 1-82 |
Sema Koral | 1- 62 | |
Mümtaz Tok | 1- 24/ 64-82 | |
Songül Umman | 1-82 | |
Taş Kafa | 1-82 | |
Cevher Albay | 1-82 | |
Ümran | 1-82 | |
İsa | 1-82 | |
Ufuk Kantar | 24- 32 | |
Hare Sürel | Meltem Karayel | 26-82 |
Fırat Çelik | Mete Durukan | 25-37 |
Completed characters[]
Actor/Actress | Character | Episodes |
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İsmail Karagül | 1-24 | |
Engin Benli | Zafer Biryol | 1-24 |
Oğuz Ayaz | 16-21 | |
Necdet | 1-21 | |
Bülent | 1-10 | |
Kulaksız Adnan | 1-9 | |
Serkan Vadar | 1-2 | |
Gürkan | 1-2 | |
Cemil | 1 | |
Mete | 30-82 | |
Macit Koper | Adil Topal | 40-50 |
Selçuk Erensoy | 36-49 |
Series overview[]
Season | No. of episodes | Originally broadcast (Turkey) | ||
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Series premiere | Series finale | |||
1 | 24 | January 7, 2015 | June 17, 2015 | |
2 | 38 | September 30, 2015 | June 15, 2016 | |
3 | 20 | October 12, 2016 | March 1, 2017 |
References[]
- ^ "Kanal D'nin yeni dizisi Poyraz Karayel". Kanal D (in Turkish). Retrieved October 3, 2015.
- ^ "For My Son (Poyraz Karayel)". Turkish Drama. March 14, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
External links[]
- Official website (in Turkish)
- Poyraz Karayel at IMDb
- 2015 Turkish television series debuts
- Turkish drama television series
- Kanal D original programming
- Television series produced in Istanbul
- Television shows set in Istanbul
- Television series set in the 2010s