Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki

Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki
Written by	Coşkun Irmak
Directed by	Zeynep Günay Tan
Starring	Erkan Petekkaya Ayça Bingöl Yıldız Çağrı Atiksoy Farah Zeynep Abdullah Aras Bulut İynemli Meral Çetinkaya Emir Berke Zincidi Wilma Elles
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language	Turkish
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	120
Production
Producer	D Productions
Running time	~100 minutes
Original release
Network	Kanal D
Release	September 14, 2010 – June 18, 2013

Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki ("As Time goes by") is a Turkish drama television series broadcast by Kanal D.

Plot

Season 1

The series is set in the 1960s and revolves around the Akarsu family. Ali Akarsu is the patriarch of the family and he works as a seaman and the captain of a ship. He is married to Cemile and they have 4 children - Berrin (a law student at İstanbul University), Aylin and Mete who are high school students as well as 5 year old son Osman. When Ali goes on one of his many trips, he begins an affair with a Dutch woman named Caroline and that leads to the disintegration of the Akarsu family. Caroline uninvited comes to Turkey, Cemile wounds her by stabbing and goes to jail. Caroline being hospitalised. There she sets her terms. Ali must get a divorce from Cemile in order Caroline to drop charges from Cemile and release her from jail. Caroline moves in with Ali. Cemile and children get evicted from their house and without money. Ali lets Cemile and children to live in the unfinished house in Zeytinli, while setting obstacles for Cemile for finding a job. Ali's mother Hasefe, supports totally Cemile and helps her on daily basis. Mete the oldest son, sets the house on fire and Ali refuses to pay alimony to Cemile with the excuse of house restoration. Ali lets Cemile and children to live in the unfinished house in Zeytinli, while setting obstacles for Cemile for finding a job. Mete gets jailed for arson and beaten in jail. Ali demands the younger son, Osman, to live with him and Carolin, in order to drop the charges from Mete and set him free.Osman gets abused by Carolin, and gets almost drown at the sea while Ali was procrastinating. Fortunately, Ali's acquaintance "The fisherman" sees a child in the water and rescues the little Osman. Osman returns to live with his mother because of Ali's inability to take care of the boy. There, the family friendship with "The Fisherman" blossoms. He falls in love with Cemile and asks her to marry him. Ali gets crazily jealous and promises to kill him if he doesn't back off. Meanwhile, Aylin, the middle daughter is desperate from living in poverty, agrees to marry to Murat, the brother of the man that she is in love with , Soner Talasoglu. She also signs a prenuptial agreement, where the term is that she will become rich only after Murat's death, who is ill with an incurable disease, which makes him unable to walk and to keep his marital duties in bed. Another sister, Berin,a university student, falls in love with Ahmet, a member of student Marxist movement, while another student, Hakan, son of a wealthy right wing man, is desperately in love with her. Ahmet's mother gets accidentally shot by the bullet which was supposed to kill Ahmet by the assassin hired by Ekrem, father of Hakan. Hakan picks the gun and Ahmet starts looking for the revenge , believing that Hakan killed his mother. When truth revealed, Ahmet kills the assassin and wounds Ekrem. People of Ekrem start the head hunting. Berrin hides Ahmet but police finds him and arrests him. Hakan helps him to flee abroad, but Berrin must marry him. Mete falls in love with his music teacher Inci, who helped him many times, she encourages him to play guitar. He and his band take part in musical competition and become winners. They produce an album which becomes successful. Inci gets married to her fiancee but regrets because her husband is not a good person. She gets seriously ill with cancer, and dies with Mete on her side. Meanwhile, Ali and Carolin get married. Carolin's old partner, a thief named Ekber, appears in Turkey and together they set up fraud to strip Ali's bank account. One thing brings another , Ali loses everything but his pension and still he has the house. Cemile denied to marry the Fisherman because she learned the story of his life. His name is Hikmet Karci and he is a rich manufacturer, who left the wealthy style of life due to a family tragedy. Cemile also discovered that his ex-wife is in fragile state of mind, and she doesn't want to harm this woman, named Selma, by marrying Fisherman. Ali, still being jealous and broke, crashes restaurant boat which Carolin sold to revenge him.The police is looking for him. Few days later he rapes Cemile. Ali with remorse asks Cemile to kill him. The police appears and arrests Ali for crushing boat Cemile sillently suffers until the symptoms of pregnancy appear. Soner pays out Ali from the Jail. Ali beggs Cemile to keep the baby. She has internal bleeding and gets hospitalised with all the family on her side and Ali giving her blood. There everybody learns that Cemile is pregnant and Ali is the father. Carolin is also pregnant and announces that to Ali. Ali now tells Cemile to drop the baby. Cemile drops the baby and then she agrees to marry the Fisherman. Selma and Cemile become friends, Selma's mental condition becomes normal after spending time with the little Osman. On the wedding evening, Cemile and Hikmet get married. Everybody is happy, and suddenly Ali appears and shots Hikmet dead. He is determined to kill Cemile and then to suicide, and then his mother Hasefe, shoots him with the gun that Ahmet left at the house, crippling Ali and saving Cemile's life.

Season 2

Events of Season 2 take place two years after Season 1. The youngest son of Captain Ali and Cemile, Osman has started primary school and has fallen in love with a girl named Gülden. However, their teacher, who also happens to be Mete's teacher in high school, always seems to be punishing little Osman because of his supposed naughtiness. Captain Ali is freed from prison after "The General Clemency". However, getting out of jail means almost nothing to him, considering his new lifestyle, poor and miserable, partly due to him raping Cemile, his ex-wife, arguing and fighting with his children and also being robbed and tricked by Caroline. Cemile Karcı now has legacy from Hikmet Karcı. This puts an end to her and her children's struggle with money. When her partner in ownerwhip of Harcı Triko A.Ş marries an untrustworthy and cunning man, she decides to involve herself in the management of the company. After a rather short time, the husband, named Kenan, demonstrates his true personality causing drastic changes for the company's future. Mete Akarsu, meanwhile, becomes famous thanks to his abilities of guitar playing, songwriting and vocals. From time to time he performs with his friends in a well-known casino. Although his fame increases daily, Mete cannot forget his deceased first lover: Professor Inci, his music teacher at high school. This is underlined by him still carrying around a photograph portraying him and the beautiful Prof. Inci. Yet, instead of finally letting go of her, Mete starts to date a girl who closely resembles his first love. Though he appears to be happy at first glance, Mete soon admits to himself that he's been fooling himself and lying to his heart all the time. Unfortunately, Mete keeps suffering from the loss of Inci, until he meets another girl, Nihal, which slightly reduces his pain over his first lover's death. Aylin Akarsu keeps contact with an older man named Soner even though they are not seeing each other or talking to each other. After a while, he returns from London and spends time hanging out with Aylin and his brother, who is now a husband of Aylin. She sets free and decides she no longer can continue being married to her wheelchair-bound husband and desperately wants to marry the one man she truly loves: Soner, her husband's brother. Soner, who obviously shares the same affection for, lets her down after his younger brother commits suicide. Aylin never finds that out and gets traumatized. Berrin Akarsu, the oldest child of Captain Ali and Cemile, is married to rich guy Hakan and together they have a baby called Zehra. Because of "The General Clemency", Ahmet, the man who has the strongest love for Berrin has permission to enter Turkey. Kenan and Ali confront in a ship. Kenan accidentally shoots at a pipe and Ali knocks him out. Ali manages to escape the ship but Kenan dies when it explodes. All is not good for Ali though and he is guilty about his past. He commited suicide by drowning in the sea because he knew that Cemile would never forgive him. Cemile goes hysterical when she finds this out and when she knew it was too late to save Ali, she went to the hospital where Aylin died from childbirth later that same day.

Season 3

A couple of years have passed in this season. Ali Akarsu committed suicide at the end of season 2 by going out to sea, so the oldest man of the family, Mete Akarsu, begins to take more and more responsibilities. As his music band broke up, his life got worse for him, but Ayça appeals for Mete. Ayça is somebody whom Osman loves, also. She goes in the same high school with Osman. The key of the season is the main event, the "Military Coup" that changed the destiny of Turkey. At this time Osman, the leading character, is grown up and a high-school student. Despite to keep away from political fights and discussions, Osman joins socialist group. He also has publical sense and thoughts. This season Osman's life is changed because of Arif(stationer of the district). Aylin dies at childbirth, leaving Soner in grief along with their daughter. Soner is depressed and decides to leave Turkey and go to London. His best friend Süleyman, and Cemile insist on him staying in Istanbul, so Soner can take care after Deniz Yıldız Talaşoğlu. Berrin got married to Ahmet and their economic situation is stable.They are living with Berin's daughter Zehra who doesn't know that Ahmet isn't her biological father. Hakan is discharged from prison after he was accused of shooting his father.He is depressed and feels lonely and he starts to sneak peeks at his daughter. Ekram, Hakan's father, kidnapped Zehra after school and he tells her the bitter truth. zehra is shocked to know that Hakan is her biological father and she gets mad at Berrin for not telling her all these years and decides to live with her real father. Hakan is thrilled and is no longer alone some. Zehra is diagnosed with renal failure. The doctor tells to her family that she needs a dialysis every single day until the kidney transplant is performed. Ekram takes Zehra to his house and decides to keep her there until she recovers despite the disapproval of her mother.So Hakan decides to go live with his father and Caroline, the wife of Akram and ex Captain Ali's mistress.Then Caroline made a test if she could donate for zehra and the result was yes. However, she promises to give her kidney if Hakan marries her because of how wealthy he is. At first Hakan doesn't like this but then wants to show what Caroline is actually like. Hakan starts convincing Caroline and starts her to actually go on dates with him. After finally getting plans to get married, Hakan tells Caroline to come to a hotel in Izmir but also inviting someone else, his father, Ekrem. Finally, Bahar (babysitter of Deniz) becomes donor for Zehra. Meanwhile, Arif's enemy Tugrul comes to the show. He is said to be the brother of whom Arif killed back in his socialist days. He gets revenge by killing Arif's daughter and kidnapping Mete and Arif, himself. He takes them to this abandoned mansion where many prisoners are beat to death. Tugrul uses this opportunity to try to get Cemile to be his wife and tell her that Arif is supposedly dead. Cemile agrees with this, not knowing the truth, but she first makes a deal, giving Mete back to her. Tugrul tortures Mete. After all, Ahmet was assassinated due to Ekram; Tugrul is killed; Mete and Ayca started dating again; so did Hakan and Berin who gave birth to her second child – son of Ahmet; Soner marries Bahar in last scene. They are waiting for their baby. After many years Osman wrote story about his family and TV started shooting of TV series.

Cast

Character	Actors
	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3
Erkan Petekkaya	Ali Akarsu
Ayça Bingöl	Cemile Akarsu
Wilma Elles	Caroline Akarsu
Yıldız Çağrı Atiksoy	Berrin Akarsu
Aras Bulut İynemli		Mete Akarsu
Farah Zeynep Abdullah		Aylin Akarsu
Meral Çetinkaya		colspan="2"	Hasefe Akarsu
Mete Horozoğlu	Soner
Recep Renan Bilek	Süleyman
Mine Tugay	Bahar
Mehmet Gürhan	Kemal Akarsu
Zeyno Eracar	Neriman
Emir Berke Zincidi	Osman Akarsu (Little)
Gun Koper	Osman Akarsu (High School Osman)
Yağız Can Konyalı	Aydin Uluç
Arif Pişkin	Halit Uluç
Nilperi Şahinkaya	Mesude
Dila Akbaş	Ayten
Tolga Güleç	Ahmet
Salih Bademci	Hakan Tatlıoğlu
Sercan Badur	Necati
Simay Küçük	Necati
Yeliz Kuvancı	İnci
Orhan Alkaya	Hikmet Karcı (Balıkçı)
Ferit Kaya	Resul
Şenay Aydın	Amina
Ahmet Arıman	Bakkal
Yurdaer Tosun	Gece bekçisi
Ebru Helvacıoğlu	Betül
Enes Atış	Mitat
Suat Ergin	Manav
Vahdet Çakar	Komiser
Onur Özaydın	Cengiz

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International Broadcasters

Country	Title	Network	Premiere date
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Kako vrijeme prolazi	TV1 Mreža	October 2, 2011 October 2, 2011
Macedonia	Бурни времиња	Sitel TV	March 26, 2012
Albania	Ashtu Siç Koha Kalon	Alsat TV	June 20, 2012
Bulgaria	Времето лети	bTV bTV Lady	July 9, 2012 March 4, 2013/2014
Pakistan	Rafta Rafta(Slowly and Gradually)	Geo Entertainment	March 20, 2013
Egypt	على مر الزمان	CBC	September 1, 2012
Kuwait	على مر الزمان	MBC4	September 1, 2012
Saudi Arabia	على مر الزمان	MBC4	September 1, 2012
Lebanon	على مر الزمان	MBC4 MBC+ Drama	September 1, 2012 June, 2012
Afghanistan	زمان	Tolo TV	October, 2012
Croatia	Kako vrijeme prolazi	Nova TV	November 5, 2012
Serbia	Kako vreme prolazi	Prva Srpska Televizija	January 8, 2013
Serbia	Kako vreme prolazi	Liv	January 1, 2013
Montenegro	Kako vrijeme prolazi	TV Vijesti	April 1, 2013
Pakistan	Bewafai (The Betrayal)	Geo Kahani	May 13, 2013
Greece	Η Προδοσία (The Betrayal)	Star Channel	September 16, 2013
Georgia	დაკარგული დრო	Maestro TV	October 28, 2013
Romania	Tradarea	Kanal D România	August 4, 2014

International popularity

According to Nielsen Media Research, “Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki" was the most popular TV show on Macedonian TV in 2013 in terms of viewers, followed by another Turkish show, “Asi” which came in second. In fact, “Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki" and other Turkish shows are so successful in Macedonia, that the government passed a bill to restrict broadcasts of Turkish series during the day and at prime time, in order to reduce the Turkish impact on Macedonian society.

External links

• Official site
• Kanal D series page
• Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki (Bewafai)-Urdu Translation