Out of the Hat Came My Father (Şapkadan Babam Çıktı) (translated)

Şapkadan Babam Çıktı (“My Father Came Out of the Hat”) is a Turkish television series that was on air across 2002 and 2003. It was directed by Haluk Bener, and its promotional poster gives top billing to Müşfik Kenter.

The cast includes Halit Ergenç, Fikret Kuşkan, Bennu Yıldırımlar, Gürkan Uygun, Neslihan Yeldan and Sait Genay; Kerem Atabeyoğlu and Ali Atay are also named on the poster. In that respect the series placed veteran stage-trained actors of the early 2000s alongside younger performers who would later become widely known.

Detailed, verified information about the storyline is scarce. The episodes survive in the TRT archive, and the show is now remembered chiefly as one of those short-lived productions of its period valued for the ensemble it assembled.