The Spring That Never Came (Gelmeyen Bahar) (translated)

Honor-based oppression, so-called honor killings and violence against women are the subject of Gelmeyen Bahar ("The Spring That Never Came"), a Turkish drama. It was released on March 8, 2013, timed for International Women's Day to highlight cruelty toward women. Produced by Yağmur Yapım, it runs about two hours and twenty minutes. It was directed by Emrah Erdoğan (İpek), known as "Küçük Emrah", in his directorial debut.

The story follows people thrown off course by an impossible love. At its center is Bahar, an eighteen-year-old factory worker with dreams of her own whose fate has already been laid out by her family. She is caught between a silent mother, a retired father who seeks happiness outside the home and an unemployed brother, and learns that her uncle plans to marry her to his son. Ayten Uncuoğlu and Orhan Alkaya share the lead roles, with Hasan Küçükçetin, Beyza Şekerci, Ayşe Kökçü and Turgay Tanülkü also in the cast.

Erdoğan wrote the screenplay with Tarkan Ateşmen. The film was not well received by the press: one critic wrote that even television had exhausted the subject years earlier and that the film approached it with a dated, near-parodic outlook.