MIPCOM, the world’s largest television market, returns to Cannes from October 13–16. As delegates from every corner of the globe take over the Croisette, one thing is certain: Turkish dramas will once again be top of mind.
As global viewing habits evolve and new formats emerge, Turkish dramas endure as a cornerstone of international television. With storytelling rooted in universal themes and elevated by compelling performances, these series continue to captivate audiences both at home and abroad.
As with every year, Türkiye’s leading distributors will be in attendance at MIPCOM, showcasing an impressive lineup of brand-new titles and enduring favourites. And while the wealth of choices might seem overwhelming, we’ve made things simple—here’s your guide to the Turkish dramas you won’t want to miss.
Halef
Distributor: Inter Medya
Shortly after secretly marrying the woman he loves, Melek, Serhat is forced to return to his hometown of Urfa, a place he has avoided for years. He comes back for his father’s illness, but an old promise made to end a blood feud forces him into a second, religious marriage with Yıldız. From surgeon to tribal leader, Serhat must now protect the community he was born to lead, yet it is not only his leadership that is tested but also his love when his legal wife Melek arrives in Urfa.
Serhat is now compelled to live under the same roof with Melek, the woman he loves, and Yıldız, the woman he was forced to marry. The mansion is full of secrets and enemies surrounding it on all sides. While trying to hold on to his past as a doctor, Serhat discovers that Melek was also born in these lands. Her return to Urfa is no coincidence but a calling of destiny. Everything begins the night Melek arrives and witnesses her husband’s forced marriage to Yıldız. From that moment, she cannot return to Istanbul because the secrets must come to light.
Melek eventually learns that she was abducted as a baby from Urfa and raised by adoptive parents in Istanbul. With this revelation, she faces the truth that neither her family nor anyone in the mansion is innocent. Every person carries a hidden past.
REBORN (Çarpıntı)
Distributor: OGM Universe
Aslı Güneş has never truly lived because her fragile heart kept her trapped in survival. When she finally receives a life-saving transplant, her second chance comes with a price: the heart belonged to Melike Alkan, heir to one of Istanbul’s most powerful families.
Drawn into the Alkan world of wealth, grief, and buried secrets, Aslı becomes both a daughter to a grieving mother and the forbidden love of a restless heir. But while she embraces this new life, her own mother and a dangerous lover scheme to exploit her miracle.
Torn between two families, two identities, and one borrowed heart, Aslı must discover who she truly is before love, betrayal, and destiny consume her.
QUEEN OF TEARS (AŞK VE GÖZYAŞI)
Distributor: ATV Distribution
“Queen of Tears” is a Korean drama retelling that delves into love and family. In the series, Selim, the legal director of Aksel Group, is married to Meyra, the company's future heir. While he endures the weight of power struggles and family pressure, Meyra hides her loneliness and fragility behind her strong exterior. As emotional distance grows between them, Selim considers walking away, until he discovers Meyra's life-threatening illness.
This revelation forces them to confront their long-suppressed truths and rediscover the love they thought was lost. But under the shadow of illness, family expectations, corporate rivalries and buried secrets, their journey becomes the ultimate test of love, honesty, and the choice to stand by one another.
ESHREF RUYA (EŞREF RÜYA)
Distributor: Inter Medya
Eshref fell in love with a girl he once saw from afar during his childhood, a girl whose name he never knew and who lives in his memory only as “Ruya” (Dream). After being sent to prison at a young age, he lost all trace of her. Years later, he has become one of the top members of The Orphans, a powerful mafia syndicate operating in Istanbul. Despite all the time that has passed, he has never let go of that memory. Wherever he goes, he looks for Ruya.
When Papa Yakup, the leader of The Orphans, is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he sees Eshref as his successor. The decision unsettles Kadir, Eshref’s strongest rival within the organization. As the internal power struggle begins to intensify, Eshref is backed by his closest friends and housemates Gurdal, Muslum, and Faruk, who have stood by his side since their prison days.
One day, a wedding is held at the luxury hotel Eshref runs, organized through Kadir and hosted by a prominent family tribe. When tensions flare between the bride’s side and the performing band, the group’s lead singer, Nisan, suddenly finds herself in danger. Eshref steps in to protect her, unaware that she is in fact the very Ruya he has been chasing all these years.
Nisan is drawn to Eshref, but having built a peaceful and independent life, she wants nothing to do with the world he belongs to. Yet when her younger sister Afra is implicated in a murder case, Inspector Cigdem, Eshref’s relentless enemy, uses it to her advantage. In exchange for Afra’s safety, Cigdem convinces Nisan to become an informant, extracting information from Eshref’s inner circle.
As Nisan gets closer to Eshref, her feelings for him grow deeper. But she has no idea how a crime from his past is tied to her own story. Nor does Eshref realize that the woman he is falling in love with is the same Ruya he has searched for all along who is secretly working against him.
STRANGER IN THE MIRROR (AYNADAKI YABANCı)
Distributor: ATV Distribution
“Stranger in the Mirror” is a thrilling drama that explores the haunting power of love lost and found.
Azra and Emirhan seem like the perfect couple, but Emirhan’s obsessive love soon turns her life into a prison. When she tries to escape with her daughter Leyla, tragedy strikes, and Leyla is lost. Desperate, Azra undergoes plastic surgery to return to the Karaaslan mansion under a new identity. But complications erase her memory, and she becomes “Defne.” Drawn back into the mansion as a maid, Defne slowly uncovers dark secrets, reconnects with Leyla, and ultimately realizes the shocking truth: she is Azra, Leyla’s mother, and the key to it all.
SINS AND ROSES (GÜLLER VE GÜNAHLAR)
Distributor: Kanal D International
“Sins and Roses” is a gripping drama about love, betrayal and redemption.
When Serhat was a boy, life struck him twice—his father abandoned the family, and their fortune vanished. He rebuilt his life through sheer will, becoming a successful businessman devoted to two values: family and integrity. But everything shattered when he learned his wife, Berrak, had been hiding a devastating secret. Before he could confront her, a tragic accident left her in a coma—taking the truth with her.
Then came Zeynep. A fiery, outspoken young woman from a working-class neighbourhood, she was nothing like anyone Serhat had known…
DYNASTY OF LOVE (VELIAHT)
Distributor: Global Agency
“Dynasty of Love” unfolds around a powerful transport empire, where ambition, betrayal, and romance collide. Zülfikar, an aging tycoon, faces growing threats to his legacy, especially from Yahya, the vengeful son of his murdered former partner. Yahya plots to reclaim his father’s stolen business and destroy Zülfikar’s family.
Zülfikar’s troubled son Zafer, traumatized by his mother’s death, is forced into a marriage with Reyhan, a woman desperate to protect her imprisoned sister. Though Zafer has loved Reyhan since childhood, she secretly plans to escape once her brother is freed. Meanwhile, Yahya schemes to kill Zafer and seize control of the bus terminal, raising the stakes.
To safeguard his dynasty, Zülfikar recruits Timur, a street-smart mechanic, and transforms him into Zafer’s double. As Timur steps into Zafer’s life, he saves Reyhan from a kidnapping attempt and begins to fall for her, igniting a passionate and dangerous love triangle.
Inside the family mansion, Zülfikar’s daughters manoeuvre through a male-dominated world, adding layers of intrigue. As loyalties shift and secrets unravel, the battle between love and revenge threatens to consume everyone involved.
WAVES OF LOVE (GÖZLERİ KARADENİZ)
Distributor: ATV Distributor
A powerful drama that navigates the troubled waters of family, fate and forbidden love.
A principled sea captain, Azil, returns home from a long voyage-only to be pulled into a deadly web of power, betrayal, and buried bloodlines when he unknowingly disrupts his half-brother Mehmet's criminal operations and comes face-to-face with the powerful father, Osman, who once abandoned him-and Gunes, the woman he has fallen for, who now belongs to the very family he never knew he was part of. Azil must confront the past he has tried to forget while choosing between loyalty and love.
Deep In Love (TAŞACAK BU DENİZ)
Distributor: TRT Sales
A thousand-year feud, born of a murdered bride and a cursed stone, still poisons the Black Sea coast. Koçari and Furtuna—two villages that share no trade, no marriage, no peace—have lived by fire and blade for centuries. Adil Koçari was just seventeen when they stole his love, Esme, and killed his father.
Twenty years later, he rules as a feared livestock baron, while Esme—once his forbidden passion—has become the matriarch of his sworn enemies. When she shoots him, a young surgeon saves his life: Eleni, a prodigy raised in Greece, unaware she is the daughter they both lost. Now Eleni stands at the heart of the war: hunted by the family that birthed her, desired by the heir of her enemies, and torn between the man who owes her his life and the clan that wants her dead.
Her arrival rekindles old fires, forbidden loves, and a question whispered by the sea: can a child of both bloodlines heal a war that has lasted a millennium, or will her presence drown them all?
ENVY (Kıskanmak)
Distributor: Madd Entertainment
“ENVY” is the powerful story of a woman who has finally had enough. Seniha spent her entire life on the margins of her own family — unloved by her status-obsessed mother and constantly overshadowed by her brilliant and charming brother Halit. While he becomes one of the country’s most successful attorneys and enjoys every privilege their wealth provides, Seniha is becoming an aging spinster, living like a servant in the very mansion where she was born. But when her brother’s secret relationship with a nightclub singer threatens the family’s reputation, Seniha finally seizes an opportunity by exposing her brother and arranging a respectable marriage for him with Nalan. In exchange, her mother agrees to give Seniha the inheritance she was long denied.
But just as the engagement is secured, Halit becomes infatuated with another woman, Mükerrem and breaks the arrangement. Humiliated and betrayed, the abandoned bride to be swears revenge — and Seniha suddenly finds herself facing a new enemy. Meanwhile, determined to carve out a life of her own, Seniha crosses paths with Nüzhet — a broken young musician whose life she saves by chance. Their quiet connection becomes the only source of kindness in Seniha’s life as Halit’s arrogance grows, and the family becomes even harsher toward her.
When Halit humiliates her in front of their guests and her mother reneges on their agreement, Seniha’s years of buried anger and jealousy finally boil over. Standing alone on the balcony of their mansion, convinced she has nothing left to live for, Seniha prepares to end it all. But in that final moment, fate intervenes — and instead of surrendering, something darker awakens inside her.
TERRA ROSSA (Bereketli Topraklar)
Distributor: Eccho Rights
In Adana, the feud between two of the city’s most powerful families, the Bereketoğulları and the Karahanlıs, was reignited twenty years ago by a fire that killed Rıza Bereketoğlu. His son Ömer struck back, forcing his mother Azize and Cemal Karahanlı, patriarch of the rival clan, to forge a fragile pact. What followed was not peace, but silence, waiting to be broken.
That silence unravels with the return of Salih, the youngest Bereketoğlu, whose closeness with Fatma, Cemal’s granddaughter, threatens to reopen old wounds.
At the center stands Ömer Bereketoğlu. Though the middle son, he inherited leadership through tragedy and sacrifice. Bound by loyalty and justice, Ömer built fortune and influence while protecting workers and land. Respected by the people, feared by enemies, he is both protector and punisher.
Into this tense landscape steps Nevin, a newly appointed prosecutor determined to challenge the crooked order. Her mission is personal: her fiancé, the former prosecutor, died under suspicious circumstances. Colliding with Ömer at the heart of the conflict, she finds herself torn between exposing him and being drawn to him.
Their bond becomes the most unpredictable force of all, threatening to upend Adana’s balance of power.
A Mother's Oath (Sakıncalı)
Distributor: Global Agency
"A Mother's Oath" tells the gripping story of Süreyya, who discovers that her husband's criminal empire was the cause of her son’s death, leading her to recruit a group of women to fight for justice in a drama filled with tension, passion and romance.
LIES AFTER LIES (BEN ONUN ANNESIYIM)
Distributor: Calinos Entertainment
Lies After Lies tells the story of Ayse, a woman who spent years in prison after being accused of murdering her husband. Once released, her only wish is to be reunited with her daughter, Zeynep, who was taken from her as a child. But Zeynep has since been adopted by Kemal and knows nothing of her real mother. To reclaim her daughter, Ayse must earn Kemal’s trust—and perhaps even his love. Her greatest obstacle, however, is her former mother-in-law, Ilter, who blames Ayse for her son’s death and is determined to take revenge. At its heart, Lies After Lies is a powerful drama about a mother’s struggle to reunite with her child while facing deep prejudice, old wounds, and relentless vengeance.