Best Turkish Romance and Love Story Series
Big love stories, from forbidden romances to slow-burn dramas, ranked by fan votes.
1. Sen Çal Kapımı
Starring Hande Erçel and Kerem Bürsin
Sen Çal Kapımı (known internationally as You Knock on My Door and Love Is in the Air) is a Turkish romantic comedy produced by MF Yapım, starring Hande Erçel as Eda Yıldız and Kerem Bürsin as Serkan Bolat. It aired on FOX from 8…
2. Doğduğun Ev Kaderindir
Starring Demet Özdemir, İbrahim Çelikkol and Engin Öztürk
Doğduğun Ev Kaderindir (The House You Are Born In Is Your Destiny, also known as My Home My Destiny) is a Turkish romantic drama that aired on TV8 from 25 December 2019 to 12 May 2021. It stars Demet Özdemir, İbrahim Çelikkol and…
3. Kiralık Aşk
Starring Barış Arduç and Elçin Sangu
Kiralık Aşk (Love for Rent) is a Turkish romantic comedy produced by Ortaks Yapım, starring Barış Arduç as Ömer İplikçi and Elçin Sangu as Defne Topal, with Salih Bademci, Onur Büyüktopçu, Nergis Kumbasar and Levent Ülgen. It…
4. Hercai
Starring Akın Akınözü and Ebru Şahin
Hercai (Inconstant Love) is a Turkish romantic drama starring Akın Akınözü as Miran and Ebru Şahin as Reyyan, with Gülçin Santırcıoğlu, Serhat Tutumluer, Oya Unustası and Ahmet Tansu Taşanlar. It premiered on ATV on 15 March 2019…
5. İyi Günde Kötü Günde
Starring Elçin Sangu and Deniz Işın
İyi Günde Kötü Günde (For Better or Worse) is a Turkish romantic comedy produced by O3 Medya, starring Elçin Sangu as Leyla, Ozan Dolunay as Sarp and Yasemin Allen as Melisa. Directed by Metin Balekoğlu and Barış Erçetin and…
6. Kurt Seyit ve Şura
Starring Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Farah Zeynep Abdullah and Elçin Sangu
Kurt Seyit ve Şura is a Turkish period drama based on Nermin Bezmen's novel of the same name, a true story about her grandfather. Directed by Hilal Saral and Nermin Bezmen, it aired on Star TV from 4 March to 20 November 2014 over…
7. Sevdiğim Sensin
Starring Aytaç Şaşmaz, Helin Kandemir and Deniz Işın
Sevdiğim Sensin (literally You Are the One I Love) is a Turkish drama produced by Ay Yapım for Star TV, written by Yeşim Aslan from a story by Coşkun Irmak and directed by Gökçen Usta. It premiered on 12 February 2026 and is now…
8. Masumiyet Müzesi
Starring Selahattin Paşalı and Eylül Lize Kandemir
Masumiyet Müzesi (The Museum of Innocence) is a Turkish Netflix original limited series based on Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's 2008 novel of the same name. Produced by Ay Yapım, written by Ertan Kurtulan and directed by Zeynep…
9. Erkenci Kuş
Starring Demet Özdemir and Can Yaman
Erkenci Kuş (The Early Bird, English title Daydreamer) is the Turkish romantic comedy that made Can Yaman and Demet Özdemir international stars. It aired on Star TV from 26 June 2018 to 6 August 2019 and became one of the most…
10. Kiraz Mevsimi
Starring Özge Gürel and Serkan Çayoğlu
Kiraz Mevsimi (Cherry Season) is a Turkish romantic comedy-drama starring Özge Gürel as Öykü and Serkan Çayoğlu as Ayaz, with Nilperi Şahinkaya and Dağhan Külegeç. Directed by Eda Teksöz and Aslı Kahraman, it aired on FOX from 4…
11. Aşk-ı Memnu
Starring Beren Saat, Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ and Hazal Kaya
Aşk-ı Memnu (Forbidden Love) is a Turkish romantic drama produced by Ay Yapım, written by Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu and directed by Hilal Saral. It aired on Kanal D from 4 September 2008 to 24 June 2010, for two seasons and 79…
12. Yalı Çapkını
Starring Afra Saraçoğlu and Mert Ramazan Demir
Yalı Çapkını (Golden Boy, literally The Mansion Playboy) is a Turkish romantic drama produced by OGM Pictures and directed by Burcu Alptekin and Alptekin Bozkurt. It aired on Star TV from 23 September 2022 to 4 April 2025, for…
13. Bay Yanlış
Starring Can Yaman and Özge Gürel
Bay Yanlış (Mr. Wrong) is a Turkish summer romantic comedy starring Can Yaman and Özge Gürel. Produced by Gold Film, directed by Deniz Yorulmazer and written by sisters Aslı and Banu Zengin, it premiered on FOX on 26 June 2020 and…
14. Çilek Kokusu
Starring Demet Özdemir
Çilek Kokusu (Strawberry Smell) is a Turkish romantic comedy produced by Gold Film, starring Demet Özdemir as Aslı Koçer, Yusuf Çim as Burak Mazharoğlu and Ekin Mert Daymaz. It aired on Star TV in the summer of 2015 and was Demet…
15. Güneşin Kızları
Starring Hande Erçel, Tolga Sarıtaş and Dilan Çiçek Deniz
Güneşin Kızları (Sunshine Girls) is a Turkish romantic drama starring Emre Kınay, Evrim Alasya, Tolga Sarıtaş, Burcu Özberk, Hande Erçel, Berk Atan and Miray Akay. It aired on Kanal D from 18 June 2015 to 19 March 2016. Güneş is a…
16. Kara Sevda
Starring Burak Özçivit, Neslihan Atagül and Kaan Urgancıoğlu
Kara Sevda (Endless Love, literally Dark Love) is a Turkish romantic drama produced by Ay Yapım and directed by Hilal Saral. It aired on Star TV from 14 October 2015 to 21 June 2017, for two seasons and 74 feature-length episodes,…
17. Three Sisters (Üç Kız Kardeş)
Starring İclal Aydın, Reha Özcan and Özgü Kaya
Üç Kız Kardeş (Three Sisters) is a Turkish romantic drama produced by Süreç Film for Kanal D, adapted from a novel and directed by Eda Teksöz. It aired from 22 February 2022 to 4 May 2024, for three seasons and 84 episodes,…
18. Adını Sen Koy
Starring Erkan Meriç and Hazal Subaşı
Adını Sen Koy (You Name It) is a long-running Turkish daily drama starring Erkan Meriç and Hazal Subaşı in its first two seasons, and Cenk Torun and Deniz Durmaz in seasons three and four. It was directed by Fulya Yavuzoğlu and…
19. Aşk Laftan Anlamaz
Starring Burak Deniz and Hande Erçel
Aşk Laftan Anlamaz (Love Doesn't Understand Words, also known as Pyaar Lafzon Mein Kahan) is a Turkish romantic comedy starring Burak Deniz as Murat Sarsılmaz and Hande Erçel as Hayat Uzun. It premiered on Show TV on 15 June 2016,…
20. Brave and Beautiful (Cesur ve Güzel)
Starring Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ and Serkan Altunorak
Cesur ve Güzel (Brave and Beautiful) is a Turkish romantic thriller produced by Ay Yapım, starring Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ as Cesur Alemdaroğlu and Tuba Büyüküstün as Sühan Korludağ. It premiered on Star TV on 10 November 2016. Cesur…
21. Çalıkuşu
Starring Fahriye Evcen, Burak Özçivit and Şükrü Özyıldız
Çalıkuşu (The Wren) is a 2013 Turkish romantic period drama on Kanal D, based on Reşat Nuri Güntekin's classic 1922 novel, adapted for the screen for the fourth time. It stars Fahriye Evcen as Feride and Burak Özçivit as Kamran.…
22. Cennet'in Gözyaşları
Starring Berk Atan
Cennet'in Gözyaşları (Cennet's Tears) is a Turkish romantic drama that aired on ATV from 24 September 2017 to 17 June 2018. It is based on the 2014 South Korean series Tears of Heaven and stars Almila Ada as Cennet Yılmaz and Berk…
23. Emanet
Starring Halil İbrahim Ceyhan and Sıla Türkoğlu
Emanet (Legacy) is a Turkish daily romantic drama produced by Karamel Yapım that premiered on Kanal 7 on 7 September 2020. Starring Halil İbrahim Ceyhan as Yaman Kırımlı and Sıla Türkoğlu as Seher Kerimoğlu, it ran for four…
24. Gönül Dağı
Starring Berk Atan
Gönül Dağı (literally Mountain of the Heart) is a Turkish family drama produced by Köprü Film for TRT 1. It premiered on 17 October 2020 and is now in its seventh season, with more than 220 episodes, making it one of the…
25. Hangimiz Sevmedik
Starring Can Yaman
Hangimiz Sevmedik (Which of Us Didn't Love) is a Turkish romantic comedy produced by BSK Yapım and directed by Metin Balekoğlu. It aired on TRT 1 from 15 July 2016 to 22 May 2017, running for 40 episodes, and stars Can Yaman as…
26. Hatırla Sevgili
Starring Beren Saat and Okan Yalabık
Hatırla Sevgili (Remember, Darling) is a popular and controversial Turkish political drama that aired on ATV from November 2006 to 6 June 2008, for 68 episodes. Produced by Sis Yapım and directed by Ümmü Burhan, it stars Cansel…
27. İnadına Aşk
Starring Can Yaman
İnadına Aşk (Love Out of Spite) is a Turkish romantic comedy directed by Osman Sınav and Yusuf Ömer Sınav and produced by Sinegraf. It aired on FOX from 2 July 2015 to 3 February 2016, running for 32 episodes, and stars Can Yaman…
28. Yeşilçam
Starring Çağatay Ulusoy
Yeşilçam is a Turkish period drama about the golden age of Turkish cinema in the 1960s, directed by Çağan Irmak and written by Volkan Sümbül and Levent Cantek. Produced by Sunset Film for BluTV, it stars Çağatay Ulusoy, Afra…
29. Bir Zamanlar Çukurova
Starring Hilal Altınbilek, Murat Ünalmış and Uğur Güneş
Bir Zamanlar Çukurova (Bitter Lands, literally Once Upon a Time in Çukurova) is a Turkish period drama produced by TİMS&B Productions. It aired on ATV from 13 September 2018 to 16 June 2022, for four seasons and 141 episodes,…
30. No: 309
Starring Demet Özdemir and İrem Helvacıoğlu
No: 309 is a Turkish romantic comedy created by Aslı and Banu Zengin for FOX, starring Demet Özdemir as Lale and Furkan Palalı as Onur. It premiered on 1 June 2016 and concluded on 25 October 2017 after 65 episodes. In a video…
31. Siyah İnci
Starring Hande Erçel
Siyah İnci (Black Pearl) is a Turkish romantic drama produced by Gold Film for Star TV, starring Tolgahan Sayışman as Kenan and Hande Erçel as Hazal. It aired from 28 September 2017 to 15 February 2018 and ended after 20 episodes.…
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