Family Secrets (2021 TV series)

*Family Secrets*
Family Secrets
	Promotional poster
Also known as	Family Secrets
Genre	Action; Drama; Psychological thriller; Police procedural; Crime
Written by	Sema Ergenekon
Directed by	Ali Bilgin
Starring	Pınar Deniz; Kaan Urgancıoğlu
Music by	Toygar Işıklı
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language	Turkish
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	90 (Oct 8, 2023)
Production
Executive producer	Kerem Çatay
Production location	Istanbul
Cinematography	Yalçın Avcı
Running time	140 minutes
Production company	Ay Yapım
Original release
Network	Kanal D
Release	September 19, 2021 –; present

Yargı (lit. 'The Judgement') internationally known as Family Secrets, is a Turkish television series developed by Ay Yapım, written by Sema Ergenekon and directed by Ali Bilgin. It stars Pınar Deniz and Kaan Urgancıoğlu. The first episode aired on September 19, 2021.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Plot

The series starts when Ilgaz (Kaan Urgancıoğlu), a respected public prosecutor, and Ceylin (Pınar Deniz), a young lawyer, cross paths due to a murder case, and are forced to work together in order to uncover the real culprit behind the event that caused an irreversible change in both of their lives.

Cast

Main

Kaan Urgancıoğlu as Prosecutor Ilgaz Kaya
Pınar Deniz as Attorney Ceylin Erguvan Kaya

Supporting

Uğur Polat as Attorney Yekta Tilmen
Uğur Aslan as Detective Eren Duman
Şükran Ovalı as Prosecutor Derya İhdal
Merve Ateş as Tuğçe Duman
Mehmet Yılmaz Ak as Prosecutor Pars Seçkin
Onur Durmaz as Engin Tilmen
Başak Gümülcinelioğlu as Judge Neva Seçkin
Nilgün Türksever as Laçin Tilmen
Nergis Öztürk as Seda Gökmen
Muttalip Müjdeci as Police Chief Rafet
Merih Ermakastar as Çetin
Emir Özden as Attorney Tolga Çırmak
Samet Kaan Kuyucu as Crime Reporter Burak Yıldırım

Ilgaz's family

Hüseyin Avni Danyal as Police Chief Metin Kaya
Arda Anarat as Çınar Kaya
Cezmi Baskın as Merdan Kaya
Özlem Çakar as Makbule Kaya
Beren Nur Karadiş as Defne Kaya

Ceylin's family

Ece Yüksel as İnci Erguvan
Ali Seçkiner Alıcı as Zafer Erguvan
Zeyno Eracar as Gül Erguvan
Pınar Çağlar Gençtürk as Aylin Erguvan Yılmaz
Onur Özaydın as Osman Yılmaz
Zeynep Atılgan as Parla Yılmaz

Others

Yiğit Kalkavan as Rıdvan
Dilara Çekir as Özge
Onur Tekin as Officer Umut
Hakan Dinçkol as Cüneyt
Eray Ertüren as Serdar Denzil
Zeynep Parla as Merve Demetoğlu
Pınar Töre as Özlem
Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu as former Judge Şahver Yengi
Elif Melda Yılmaz as Hairdresser Ayten
Kenan Bal as Haluk

Overview

Season	Episodes	Originally aired		Time slot
Season	Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Time slot
1	34	September 19, 2021 (2021-09-19)	May 29, 2022 (2022-05-29)	Sunday at 20:00 (Kanal D)
2	29	September 18, 2022 (2022-09-18)	May 7, 2023 (2023-05-07)	Sunday at 20:00 (Kanal D)
3	3	September 24, 2023 (2023-09-24)	Not yet	Sunday at 20:00 (Kanal D)

Episodes

Season 1 (2021–2022)

Ep.	#	Opening words	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	1	"An executioner glances through the eyes of every judge." (Friedrich Nietzsche)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	September 19, 2021
2	2	"Like water in water, everything I knew became invisible." (William Shakespeare)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	September 26, 2021
3	3	"Every sinner has a future." (Oscar Wilde)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 3, 2021
4	4	"No crime is forgotten as long as the conscience still remembers it." (Stefan Zweig)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 10, 2021
5	5	"The essential is invisible to the eye." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 17, 2021
6	6	"Do not think that everyone who pats you on the back is a friend, maybe he is looking for a place to stab you." (Ali)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 24, 2021
7	7	"When the water rises, the fish eats the ants; when the water recedes, the ants eat the fish. The 'flow of the water' decides who will eat whom." (Plato)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 31, 2021
8	8	"Three things can't be kept hidden for long: the sun, the moon and the truth." (Gautama Buddha)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	November 7, 2021
9	9	"When it snows on the mountain you trust, the best solution is to leave the mountain and the snow alone. When the day comes and the snow melts, the best answer is to greet the mountain that watches your path from another mountain." (Șems-i Tebrîzî)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	November 14, 2021
10	10	"It is not fire that burns a person, but their own negligence. They see the faults in everyone, but look at themselves through tinted glasses." (Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	November 21, 2021
11	11	"When a person can't face their own wrongdoings, they keep playing with other people's mistakes." (Oscar Wilde)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	November 28, 2021
12	12	"There are two perfect people in the world: the one who is dead, and the one who has not been born yet." (Chinese proverb)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	December 5, 2021
13	13	"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." (Confucius)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	December 12, 2021
14	14	"Killing a person is easy, but the blood splatters into the soul. The soul of a murderer bleeds." (Lev Tolstoy)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	December 19, 2021
15	15	"If you fall, I'll pick you up, if not, I will lay down with you." (Julio Cortázar)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	January 9, 2022
16	16	"Mild sorrows speak, but deeper ones are silent." (Seneca)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	January 16, 2022
17	17	"To find the right path, you just need to get lost." (Italo Calvino)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	January 23, 2022
18	18	"When I had all the answers, the questions changed." (Paulo Coelho)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	January 30, 2022
19	19	"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	February 6, 2022
20	20	"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on its own wings." (Henrik Ibsen)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	February 13, 2022
21	21	"Sheep spend their lives in fear of the wolf. However, it is the shepherd who eats them in the end." (Thomas Hobbes)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	February 20, 2022
22	22	"Sometimes, life feels like a hail hit just when everything was about to bloom after being patient for a winter!" (José Mauro de Vasconcelos)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	February 27, 2022
23	23	"I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided." (Fernando Pessoa)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	March 6, 2022
24	24	"How many lies have been told on earth; with words, with writing, with paintings or wordlessly." (Yusuf Atılgan)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	March 13, 2022
25	25	"Even within the most beautiful landscape, in trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other." (Francis Bacon)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	March 20, 2022
26	26	"Opened my breath, my thought, my deep heart. I loved my father the most in my life!" (Can Yücel)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	March 27, 2022
27	27	"There's daggers in men's smiles. The near in blood, the nearer bloody." (William Shakespeare)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	April 3, 2022
28	28	"In this world, don't depend too much on anyone, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness." (La Edri)^[a]	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	April 10, 2022
29	29	"How can I keep my soul in myself, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?" (Rilke)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	April 17, 2022
30	30	"Putting something together after you broke it doesn't make it whole again." (Ibn Rushd)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	April 24, 2022
31	31	"Three things tire a person the most; to forgive, to keep silent while burning inside, and to dream even when they know it won't happen." (Chuck Palahniuk)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	May 8, 2022
32	32	"My heart is a broken clock, it always stops at you..." (Turgut Uyar)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	May 15, 2022
33	33	"Some doors seem closed to us because we stand behind them and not in front of them." (Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	May 22, 2022
34	34	"When a chord breaks, the harmony ceases forever." (Yahya Kemal Beyatlı)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	May 29, 2022

Season 2 (2022–2023)

Ep.	#	Opening words	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
35	1	"Yes, a man can lie by being silent." (Stefan Zweig)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	September 18, 2022
36	2	"And I can fight for everything and for everyone that I find true, justified and beautiful..." (Nâzım Hikmet)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	September 25, 2022
37	3	"The cowards put traps, the brave fight with their hearts." (Ceylin Erguvan Kaya)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 2, 2022
38	4	"If I built the wall, you gave me the bricks." (Kemalettin Tuğcu)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 9, 2022
39	5	"Was this a one-man city? It is empty since you left." (Özdemir Asaf)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 16, 2022
40	6	"You may think wrong, you may understand wrong or you may do wrong; but your feelings can't be wrong." (Edith Wharton)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 23, 2022
41	7	"Every person eventually makes up a story that they think is their own life..." (Max Frisch)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	October 30, 2022
42	8	"Whenever we run from something, we run straight into something else." (Michael Balint)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	November 6, 2022
43	9	"Life is a very cruel teacher. It gives the exam first, then gives the lesson." (André Gide)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	November 13, 2022
44	10	"The heaviest burden is a secret, love be for those who can carry it." (La Fontaine)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	November 20, 2022
45	11	"Snowflakes in the avalanche do not know that they are the cause of it." (Oscar Wilde)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	November 27, 2022
46	12	"I don't wish to know anyone well enough to understand when they are lying." (Tezer Özlü)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	December 4, 2022
47	13	"...unspoken pain shatters the heart..." (William Shakespeare)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	December 11, 2022
48	14	"You think you escaped and you collide with yourself." (James Joyce)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	December 18, 2022
49	15	"You're a knife which I turned straight towards myself!" (Franz Kafka)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	December 25, 2022
50	16	"To stand upright; you don't know how many defeats, how many tears, how many heartaches it takes!" (Frida Kahlo)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	January 15, 2023
51	17	"I don't know how to love less, and it's because I love so much that I don't get hurt as much." (Didem Madak)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	January 22, 2023
52	18	"All that I left behind is ashes. So I am the fire!" (Friedrich Nietzsche)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	January 29, 2023
53	19	"With every inner struggle, the heart loses a drop of blood." (William Shakespeare)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	February 5, 2023
54	20	"When you become the ice you never feel cold again." (Karl Georg Büchner)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	February 26, 2023
55	21	"One can go from the best to the worst in one step." (Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	March 5, 2023
56	22	"...I keep thinking, how much we died to live." (Onat Kutlar)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	March 12, 2023
57	23	"Everything goes away, a thick sadness remains..." (Turgut Uyar)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	March 19, 2023
58	24	"A port is not chosen in a storm!" (Irvine Welsh)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	March 26, 2023
59	25	"A person does not drown because they fall into the water, they drown because they can't get out of the water." (Mevlânâ)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	April 2, 2023
60	26	"What makes love real is struggle, you can't leave your loved ones in the hands of fate." (Lev Tolstoy)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	April 9, 2023
61	27	"Wherever people go, they go towards their death!" (Kemal Tahir)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	April 16, 2023
62	28	"Then cities will come between us, we will never meet. Even coincidences won't be able to bring us together. Then maybe one of us will die, the other will never know." (Nâzım Hikmet)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	April 30, 2023
63	29	"If you don't go through pain, you can't get out..." (Prosecutor of the Republic Ilgaz Kaya)	Ali Bilgin	Sema Ergenekon	May 7, 2023

Viewership

Yargı : Turkey viewers per episode (millions)

Season		Episode number																																		Average
Season		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	Average
	1	2.90	5.71	7.22	7.07	7.66	9.14	9.72	9.58	9.66	9.19	9.96	9.33	10.60	9.85	10.81	10.39	11.27	10.96	9.23	10.27	10.05	8.96	10.61	10.33	9.22	9.30	9.12	8.89	9.43	9.33	8.71	9.46	7.65	7.94	9.10
	2	6.18	7.27	6.64	7.19	7.67	8.28	7.88	8.69	8.48	8.21	8.17	9.28	8.19	8.19	8.14	7.49	7.64	7.62	9.01	8.02	7.25	6.30	5.85	7.40	7.28	7.13	7.54	6.78	7.07	–					7.61

Source: AB category

Season 1 (2021–2022)

Ep.	Original release date	Viewers (millions) (TOTAL)	Ranking (TOTAL)	Viewers (millions) (AB)	Ranking (AB)	Viewers (millions) (ABC1)	Ranking (ABC1)
1	September 19, 2021	3.49	2nd	2.90	2nd	3.90	2nd
2	September 26, 2021	5.03		5.71		5.91
3	October 3, 2021	7.02		7.22		7.47
4	October 10, 2021	7.51		7.07		7.96
5	October 17, 2021	6.84		7.66		8.34
6	October 24, 2021	7.71		9.14	1st	9.50	1st
7	October 31, 2021	7.45		9.72	2nd	9.64	2nd
8	November 7, 2021	7.33		9.58	1st	9.12	2nd
9	November 14, 2021	8.40		9.66	1st	10.38	1st
10	November 21, 2021	7.63		9.19	2nd	9.66
11	November 28, 2021	8.34		9.96	1st	10.43
12	December 5, 2021	7.55		9.33	2nd	9.71	2nd
13	December 12, 2021	8.29		10.60	1st	10.39	1st
14	December 19, 2021	9.39		9.85	2nd	10.91
15	January 9, 2022	8.35	1st	10.81	1st	10.24
16	January 16, 2022	7.98	3rd	10.39		10.34
17	January 23, 2022	8.53	2nd	11.27		10.58
18	January 30, 2022	8.40	2nd	10.96		9.72
19	February 6, 2022	7.87	3rd	9.23		9.42
20	February 13, 2022	8.17	2nd	10.27		10.36
21	February 20, 2022	7.69		10.05		9.69
22	February 27, 2022	6.89		8.96		9.14
23	March 6, 2022	8.14	1st	10.61		10.27
24	March 13, 2022	7.94	1st	10.33		10.56
25	March 20, 2022	7.30	3rd	9.22		9.21
26	March 27, 2022	6.48	3rd	9.30		8.78
27	April 3, 2022	6.59	2nd	9.12		8.21
28	April 10, 2022	5.86	2nd	8.89		7.60
29	April 17, 2022	6.64	1st	9.43		8.99
30	April 24, 2022	6.33		9.33		8.60
31	May 8, 2022	6.47		8.71		8.51
32	May 15, 2022	6.35		9.46		8.49
33	May 22, 2022	6.16	2nd	7.65		8.07
34	May 29, 2022	5.71	1st	7.94		7.31

Season 2 (2022–2023)

Ep.	Original release date	Viewers (millions) (TOTAL)	Ranking (TOTAL)	Viewers (millions) (AB)	Ranking (AB)	Viewers (millions) (ABC1)	Ranking (ABC1)
35	September 18, 2022	4.43	1st	6.18	1st	6.18	1st
36	September 25, 2022	5.14	2nd	7.27	1st	6.54	2nd
37	October 2, 2022	4.93		6.64	2nd	6.38
38	October 9, 2022	5.52		7.19		6.83
39	October 16, 2022	6.04		7.67		7.41
40	October 23, 2022	6.37	1st	8.28	1st	8.88	1st
41	October 30, 2022	6.76	2nd	7.88		9.36
42	November 6, 2022	6.84	1st	8.69		9.24
43	November 13, 2022	6.80	2nd	8.48		8.25
44	November 20, 2022	6.84		8.21	2nd	8.43	2nd
45	November 27, 2022	6.75		8.11	2nd	8.22	2nd
46	December 4, 2022	6.74	1st	9.28	1st	8.77	1st
47	December 11, 2022	6.29	4th	8.19	2nd	7.90	2nd
48	December 18, 2022	6.20	4th	8.19	4th	7.93	4th
49	December 25, 2022	6.48	2nd	8.14	1st	8.09	1st
50	January 15, 2023	6.19	3rd	7.49	2nd	7.62	2nd
51	January 22, 2023	6.40	2nd	7.64	1st	8.16	1st
52	January 29, 2023	6.83	1st	7.62		7.93
53	February 5, 2023	7.06	1st	9.01		8.63
54	February 26, 2023	6.03	2nd	8.02		7.60
55	March 5, 2023	6.32		7.25		7.63
56	March 12, 2023	5.62		6.30		7.20
57	March 19, 2023	5.56		5.89	2nd	6.47	2nd
58	March 26, 2023	5.79	1st	7.40	1st	7.09	1st
59	April 2, 2023	5.50		7.28		7.11
60	April 9, 2023	5.65		7.13		7.11
61	April 16, 2023	5.33		7.54		6.88
62	April 30, 2023	5.72	2nd	6.78		6.71
63	May 7, 2023	6.55	1st	7.07		7.69

Adaptations

Greece – Παγιδευμένοι (English: "Trapped"), airing on ANT1

Accolades


Year	Award ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result
2022	48th Golden Butterfly Awards	Best Series	Yargı	Won
		Best Actor	Kaan Urgancıoğlu	Won
		Best Actress	Pınar Deniz	Won
		Best Screenwriter	Sema Ergenekon	Won
		Best Director	Ali Bilgin	Won
		Best Couple	Pınar Deniz & Kaan Urgancıoğlu	Nominated
2023	51st International Emmy Awards	Best Telenovela	Yargı	Pending

Notes

^ The word laedri is used for "anonymous person" in Arabic and was written as La Edri in the series.

References

^ "Yargı dizisi hangi kanalda başlıyor, konusu ne? Pınar Deniz ile Kaan Urgancıoğlu başrolde olacak!" (in Turkish). medyanotu.com. June 21, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
^ "Kanal D'den yeni dizi: Yargı!" (in Turkish). Kanal D. August 23, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
^ "Yargı'nın yeni bölüm tanıtımı izleyiciyle buluştu". CNN TÜRK (in Turkish). Retrieved September 28, 2022.
^ "Yargı dizisinin takipçilerini üzen haber! Sezon sonunda ekranlara elveda mı diyecek? – Akıllı Gündem". www.akilligundem.com (in Turkish). Retrieved September 28, 2022.

External links

Official website (in Turkish)

[5] The word laedri is used for "anonymous person" in Arabic and was written as La Edri in the series.

[medyanotu-1] "Yargı dizisi hangi kanalda başlıyor, konusu ne? Pınar Deniz ile Kaan Urgancıoğlu başrolde olacak!" (in Turkish). medyanotu.com. June 21, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2021.

[2] "Kanal D'den yeni dizi: Yargı!" (in Turkish). Kanal D. August 23, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2021.

[3] "Yargı'nın yeni bölüm tanıtımı izleyiciyle buluştu". CNN TÜRK (in Turkish). Retrieved September 28, 2022.

[4] "Yargı dizisinin takipçilerini üzen haber! Sezon sonunda ekranlara elveda mı diyecek? – Akıllı Gündem". www.akilligundem.com (in Turkish). Retrieved September 28, 2022.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[a]