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Elif

Elif

TV Series · 2014–2019 · 4 people

Green Yapım produced Elif, a Turkish drama series broadcast as a daily show. Its first episode aired on Kanal 7 on September 15, 2014, and it was the channel's first daily series. It ran for five seasons and 940 episodes before ending on June 10, 2019, which makes it the longest-running series in Kanal 7's history by both episode and season count. It is remembered as the first daily series at Cannes and reached about twenty countries outside Türkiye.

The story begins with little Elif, the child of a love her family would not accept. Separated from her mother Melek, she is placed for her own protection in the mansion of the wealthy Emiroğlu family, where she lives as a maid. Her biological father lives under the same roof, and family secrets and intrigues deepen the plot season by season. Isabella Damla Güvenilir, Selin Sezgin, Cemre Melis Çınar and Emre Kıvılcım head the cast, with Volkan Çolpan, Gülçin Tunçok and Aysun Güven also appearing.

Fulya Yavuzoğlu and Oğuz Ayaz directed, and episodes ran about fifty-five minutes. Abroad, the series was shown in Greece on Star, in Serbia on Pink from 2015 to 2020 and in Romania on Happy Channel, and it was remade in Indonesia for the channel SCTV.

DirectorFulya Yavuzoğlu, Oğuz Ayaz
Production companyFremantle
NetworkKanal 7

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Cast

Emre Kıvılcım Emre Kıvılcım Actor · 36 years old Enes Göçmen Enes Göçmen Actor · born 2008 Melisa Döngel Melisa Döngel Actor · 27 years old Süreyya Ülkü Hilal Çiftçi Ülkü Hilal Çiftçi Actor · 17 years old

Also in the cast: Volkan Çolpan, Gülçin Tunçok, Aysun Güven, Isabella Damla Güvenilir (Elif Şimşek), Selin Sezgin (Melek Simsek), Cemre Melis Çınar

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Through different eyes

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

940 episodes! For anyone who knows the daily-series format, that number inspires both respect and a little dread. Elif's strength is its fairy-tale opening, built through a little girl's eyes: a child separated from her mother, living as a maid in the same mansion as her real father. That setup hooks you from the first episodes. But over five seasons the family secrets and intrigues inevitably start to loop, and in the middle stretches you may feel the same tension being reheated. Watching it all is a serious commitment.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

A child hoping to be reunited with her mother is a natural subject for family viewing. The story is clear and easy to follow, so younger viewers keep up without trouble. But the intrigues, separations and family secrets can feel heavy at times, and sensitive children may get upset. As a daily series with hundreds of episodes, it is also hard to keep up with. An emotional family drama that suits mothers, grandmothers and kids watching together.

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

Elif carries one of the oldest themes in Turkish melodrama: a love the family would not accept, and the child who pays the price. A girl living as a maid in the wealthy Emiroğlu mansion makes class difference visible through a child's eyes; the distance between the owners of the house and those who serve in it is the real fabric of the story. That the series reached some twenty countries and was remade in Indonesia shows how universal the theme is. Even so, the daily-series rhythm usually chooses to move forward through intrigue rather than dig deeper into the social questions.

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