Flower of Love (Sevda Çiçeği) (translated)

In the summer of 2006, Show TV aired the Turkish romantic comedy Sevda Çiçeği (Flower of Love). Süreç Film and Masal Evi produced it. Planned as a 13-episode summer series, it was extended to 24 episodes on strong demand and ratings. It is remembered as the most-watched series of the 2006 summer season, and in a crowded season its total rating climbed to 7.40, with a 28 percent share, on the day the long-running Arka Sokaklar began.

The story follows Leyla, who sets out to make Selim fall in love with her and slowly falls for him herself, while Selim, though he will not admit it, is traveling the same road. Gökhan Özen and Yasemin Hadivent share the leads. Özen moved into acting in the sixth year of his music career with this series. Experienced performers such as Savaş Dinçel, Halit Akçatepe, Gül Onat, Bahar Erdeniz and Altan Karındaş join the cast, and the show is remembered as the last series Dinçel was able to complete.

Kartal Çidamlı and Tevfik Şenol directed, and Özgür Evren Heptürk wrote the screenplay. Five years after its original run, in 2011, the series began airing in several Middle Eastern countries, making it the first summer series led by a musician to be shown abroad.