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İffet

İffet

TV Series · 2011–2012 · 15 people

Love, passion and revenge drive İffet, a Turkish drama series. Produced by Gold Film, it began on Star TV on September 17, 2011, and ended with its 40th episode on September 24, 2012. It is adapted from the 1982 film of the same name, in which Müjde Ar starred, and Deniz Çakır, İbrahim Çelikkol and Mahir Günşıray share the leading roles.

The story begins with young, beautiful İffet, who lives with her father and younger sister in one of Istanbul's older, modest neighborhoods and is deeply in love with Cemil, a driver at the local taxi stand. She dreams of his proposal, but Cemil plans to get rich and leave the neighborhood first. At the wedding of İffet's best friend Serpil, Cemil, drunk, rapes her. İffet learns she is pregnant, while Cemil is forced to marry the daughter of the taxi stand's owner. Swearing revenge, İffet finds fate on her side: Ali İhsan, a wealthy businessman, falls in love with her and they marry.

It also traveled abroad: in Serbia it aired on Happy TV from October 10, 2016, to March 24, 2017, with Serbian subtitles, and in Morocco on 2M from July 2016.

Production companyGold Film
NetworkStar TV
İffet

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Cast

Bülent Alkış Bülent Alkış Actor · 52 years old Can Gürzap Can Gürzap Actor · died at 79 Deniz Çakır Deniz Çakır Actor · 44 years old İffet Ecem Özkaya Üstündağ Ecem Özkaya Üstündağ Actor · 38 years old Nil Mahir Günşiray Mahir Günşiray Actor · 66 years old Mine Çayıroğlu Mine Çayıroğlu Actor · 48 years old Yasemin Ozan Çobanoğlu Ozan Çobanoğlu Actor · 46 years old Selen Uçer Selen Uçer Actor · 43 years old Gülin Tunca Aydoğan Tunca Aydoğan Actor · 59 years old Zuhal Olcay Zuhal Olcay Actor · 69 years old Dilek İbrahim Çelikkol İbrahim Çelikkol Actor · 44 years old Cemil Melike Güner Melike Güner Actor · 47 years old Betül Selim Erdoğan Selim Erdoğan Actor · 54 years old Erhan Birsen Dürülü Birsen Dürülü Actor · 57 years old Asuman Ercan Yazgan Ercan Yazgan Actor · died at 71 Osman

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Through different eyes

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

For anyone who remembers Müjde Ar's 1982 İffet, this adaptation is both familiar and tiring. The neighborhood, the taxi stand, the wedding, the poor but proud young woman: the well-known world of Yeşilçam is all in place. Deniz Çakır is genuinely moving in the scenes where she carries pain without raising her voice. But stretched across forty episodes, the revenge theme thickens the melodrama, and the old film's intensity is at times lost in repetition. Still, the effort to retell a strong woman's story deserves respect.

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

İffet is built like a classic revenge series: the huge rupture in the early episodes fuels everything that follows. Deniz Çakır's İffet changes step by step from pain to resolve, and watching that transformation is the show's real draw. Once Ali İhsan enters the story, it starts moving between the wealthy world and the old neighborhood and picks up energy. Strong supporting players such as Zuhal Olcay and Selen Uçer add to the pleasure. To be honest, the middle stretch treads water a bit; still, wrapping up in forty episodes is good news for anyone tired of shows that never end.

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

What stands out most in İffet is how it puts class right at the center. A young woman living with her father and sister in a modest Istanbul neighborhood, a taxi driver set on getting rich and leaving, a forced marriage to the stand owner's daughter: you can see how narrow the doors to social mobility are. The pregnancy that follows the rape, and Cemil being married off to someone else, show bitterly who ends up paying the price. On the other hand, having rescue arrive through marriage to a wealthy man seems to leave the show's own questions half-answered. Carried from a 1982 film to 2011 television, the story is a good chance to think about what has and hasn't changed.

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