Menekşe and Halil (Menekşe ile Halil) (translated)

Ay Yapım produced Menekşe ile Halil, a Turkish romance and drama series broadcast on Kanal D. Its run began on September 7, 2007, and closed with the 36th episode on May 24, 2008. Uluç Bayraktar directed, and Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ and Sedef Avcı share the lead roles. It was filmed in Berlin and Istanbul. The series marked Tatlıtuğ's return to the screen after the international phenomenon of Gümüş, whose final episode drew over 85 million viewers, and it was meant to build on that success.

At its center is Menekşe, a twenty-year-old living with her family in Germany, who falls in love with Halil, a colleague at the same pastry shop. When her conservative father wants to marry her to someone else, she flees to Istanbul with her sweetheart, but her family and her intended husband Mustafa keep pursuing them. Beside Tatlıtuğ and Avcı the cast includes Fırat Tanış, Ekin Türkmen and Göksu Başaran.

The series became part of the wave of international popularity of Turkish dramas. Its Arabic dub first aired on MBC4 as Mirna and Khalil, and Euro D began re-airing it on March 8, 2010. It was shown in Serbia on Pink in 2012 as Ljubav i osveta and in Pakistan on Express Entertainment in 2013.