Eşref Rüya

About the series

Eşref Rüya is a Turkish action drama produced by TİMS&B Productions, written by Ethem Özışık and Lokman Maral and directed by Uluç Bayraktar. It aired on Kanal D from 19 March 2025 to 10 June 2026, for two seasons and 47 episodes, starring Çağatay Ulusoy and Demet Özdemir.

With a budget of about 23 million lira per episode, it was the most expensive Turkish series of 2025. Its first episode reached 3 million views on YouTube in 24 hours. A sequel, Eşref Tek, has been announced.

Plot

Eşref Tek is the most important member of the Orphans, a group of men who grew up together without families. As a child he met a girl he named Rüya (“Dream”) and he has been searching for her ever since. Nisan Akyol, a young woman who dreams of becoming a singer, enters Eşref’s life as an informant, but she soon falls in love with him, and she turns out to be connected to the girl he has been looking for all along.

Eşref Rüya cast and characters

• Çağatay Ulusoy as Eşref Tek
• Demet Özdemir as Nisan Akyol
• Necip Memili as Gürdal Bozok
• Ahmet Rıfat Şungar as Faruk Sezeri
• Görkem Sevindik as Kadir Yanık
• Ceren Benderlioğlu as Irmak Bozok
• Büşra Develi as Çiğdem Serim
• Ebru Aytemur as Gonca
• Kaan Turgut as Kenan Kamber
• Feriha Eyüboğlu as Hafize
• Ebru Nil Aydın as Selma Küçükyazıcı
• Levent Özdilek as Hıdır Elverdi
• Ebru Destan as Necla Birkan
• Zeynep Eronat as Gülümser Aygün
• Uğur Yücel as İhtiyar
• Merve Nil Güder as Rüya Tek
• Volkan Uygun as İzzet Zerfani
• Ayçin Asan as Melahat
• Yaşar Gündem as Nedim
• Metin Özülkü as Himself
• Abidin Yerebakan as Salim
• İlker Aksum as Kabzımal
• Hakan Gence as Himself
• Eşref Seyitoğlu as Hurdacı
• Aysan Sümercan as Müslüm’ün annesi
• Sinan Sicimoğlu as Arif
• Oral Özer as Harun
• Bilgesu Kural as Saliha
• Salih Ünal as Cihat
• Onur Alp Sancaktar as Dansçı

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