The Turning Point (Dönemeç) (translated)

Dönemeç is a four-part Turkish television series adapted from Tarık Buğra's novel Dönemeçte. Broadcast on TRT 1 in 1988, the adventure production was scripted by Buğra himself and directed by Okan Uysaler.

Çetin Tekindor leads the ensemble as Şerif, opposite Nilgün Akçaoğlu as Handan. İstemi Betil appears as the pharmacist Celal, Haluk Kurtoğlu as Doctor Cevdet, and İhsan Devrim as the impoverished Halit. Other roles are filled by Sümer Tilmaç as Şükrü, Mehmet Atak as Sarı Ali, Ejder Akışık as the forester, Erol Kardeseci as Karcı, and Asuman Arsan as Şükufe, with Özhan Carda, Ertuğrul İlgin, Turgay Betil, İbrahim Karamemet, Behruz Firuzment, and Mehtap Anıl rounding out the cast.