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Asi

Asi

TV Series · 2007–2009 · 19 people

Sis Yapım produced Asi, a Turkish drama, romance and family series that began on Kanal D on October 26, 2007, ran for two seasons and ended with its 71st episode on June 19, 2009, each episode lasting about 90 minutes. Its plot is inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and unfolds in the rural countryside around Antakya. It also found a wide audience abroad.

The story centers on the Kozcuoğlu family, who for three generations have kept a large plantation alive. Its owner İhsan Kozcuoğlu and his daughter Asiye, called Asi, live and work for the land. Years earlier Demir's mother and aunt Süheyla worked on the farm, until his mother drowned herself in the nearby river Asi. Demir Doğan returns home as a rich businessman, still bitter, and is drawn to Asi at once. Yet the two families share a past that keeps getting in the way, and the secrets begin to unravel once Süheyla also returns to Antakya.

Tuba Büyüküstün and Murat Yıldırım lead the cast, with Çetin Tekindor, Nur Sürer (as Neriman Kozcuoğlu), Selma Ergeç and Tuncel Kurtiz also in it. In Syrian-dialect Arabic it ran on MBC 4 from September 27, 2009, and it also aired on Morocco's 2M, Serbia's Prva (2011-2012) and many Lebanese channels.

Production companySis Yapım
NetworkKanal D

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Cast

Ahmet Rıfat Şungar Ahmet Rıfat Şungar Actor · 43 years old Aslıhan Güner Aslıhan Güner Actor · 38 years old Birce Akalay Birce Akalay Actor · 42 years old Cemal Hünal Cemal Hünal Actor · 50 years old Kerim Akbar Elif Sönmez Elif Sönmez Actor · 47 years old Melek Dogan Elif Sümbül Sert Elif Sümbül Sert Actor · 44 years old Elvin Aydoğdu Elvin Aydoğdu Actor · 47 years old Ezgi Çelik Ezgi Çelik Actor · 42 years old Kanbolat Görkem Arslan Kanbolat Görkem Arslan Actor · died at 45 Kenan Bal Kenan Bal Actor · 75 years old Necmettin Çobanoğlu Necmettin Çobanoğlu Actor · 73 years old Ökkes Onur Saylak Onur Saylak Actor · 49 years old Ziya Saygın Soysal Saygın Soysal Actor · 44 years old Aslan Selma Ergeç Selma Ergeç Actor · 48 years old Defne Kozcuoğlu Tuba Büyüküstün Tuba Büyüküstün Actor · 44 years old Asiye "Asi" Kozcuoğlu Çetin Tekindor Çetin Tekindor Actor · 81 years old Ihsan Kozcuoğlu Nur Sürer Nur Sürer Actor · 72 years old Neriman Kozcuoğlu Murat Yıldırım Murat Yıldırım Actor · 47 years old Demir Doğan Tuncel Kurtiz Tuncel Kurtiz Actor · died at 77

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Through different eyes

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Watching Asi brings to mind Yeşilçam's great melodramas of land, pride and family. The Antakya countryside, a farm kept going for three generations and a man coming home with the pain of the past: these are the solid stones of a classic story. Alongside Tuba Büyüküstün and Murat Yıldırım, masters such as Çetin Tekindor, Nur Sürer and Tuncel Kurtiz lend the series real weight. That it takes its cue from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is no surprise; the wall of pride between two hearts leaves the same ache in every culture.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

With its 90-minute episodes, Asi is one of those series that asks for patience but repays it. The charged chemistry between Tuba Büyüküstün and Murat Yıldırım comes through in almost every scene. The slow unravelling of the two families' shared past keeps curiosity alive, and Süheyla's return to Antakya gives the story fresh momentum. Still, somewhere in the middle of its 71 episodes the same pride-fuelled clashes circle round again and some episodes move far too slowly. Rather than racing through it, a few episodes a week is the way to go.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Asi takes its story to the Antakya countryside and puts at its center how land, ownership and family continuity shape lives. The farm the Kozcuoğlu family has kept going for three generations reads like an inheritance that defines who they are. That Demir's mother and his aunt Süheyla once worked on that farm places class difference at the heart of the story, which is why the bitterness of a man returning as a rich businessman carries meaning. The series chooses to dissolve these themes into romantic drama and rarely deepens the social backdrop. Its wide reach in the Arab world suggests that its ties of family and land resonate across the region.

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