Carpisma

About the series

Çarpışma (Crash) is a Turkish action thriller starring Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ and Elçin Sangu, with Onur Saylak, Melisa Aslı Pamuk and Alperen Duymaz. It premiered on Show TV on 22 November 2018 and concluded on 30 May 2019.

Plot

Kadir Adalı is chief commissioner of the Organised Crime Branch of the Istanbul police. When he loses his wife and daughter in a terrorist attack, his happy family life is destroyed. Consumed by grief, he decides to end his life, and in doing so he unknowingly causes a crash that changes four lives: four cars, four people, four destinies collide.

In one of the cars is Zeynep, Kadir’s childhood friend from the orphanage where they grew up, the woman he once almost married before choosing a life in the police like his late father. Zeynep, now a bank manager, is desperate: her husband has fled abroad leaving debts to a mob, who have kidnapped their daughter Aylin. To save her, Zeynep robs her own bank, and after her arrest she turns to Kadir for help.

Why watch it

Çarpışma combines a gripping crime story with the reunion of two old loves, and it marked a long-awaited pairing of Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ and Elçin Sangu. Its intertwined storylines and high production values made it one of the most talked-about dramas of the 2018–2019 season.

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