Fatmagulun Sucu Ne

About the series

Fatmagül’ün Suçu Ne? (What Is Fatmagül’s Fault?) is a Turkish drama produced by Ay Yapım for Kanal D, starring Beren Saat and Engin Akyürek. Written by Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu with music by Toygar Işıklı, it is based on Vedat Türkali’s screenplay, filmed in 1986 with Hülya Avşar. It became one of the most exported Turkish series in history.

Plot

Fatmagül Ketenci is a young woman from a dairy farm in the Aegean village of Ildır, near Çeşme, where she lives with her cognitively impaired brother Rahmi, his son and his wife Mukaddes, who despises her. She is engaged to her childhood love Mustafa, a fisherman, and they are only waiting to finish building their house.

Everything is destroyed one night when she is attacked and raped by a group of young men, including two sons of the wealthy Yaşaran family, who are in the area for an engagement. To cover up the crime, the powerful family forces Fatmagül to marry Kerim, a young man who was present that night. The series follows Fatmagül’s long fight for justice and her slow, difficult path to healing, as she and Kerim learn the truth about what happened.

Main cast

• Beren Saat as Fatmagül Ketenci
• Engin Akyürek as Kerim Ilgaz
• Engin Öztürk as Selim Yaşaran
• Buğra Gülsoy as Vural Namlı

Impact

The drama opened conversations about sexual violence and justice in Turkey and abroad, and was broadcast in dozens of countries across the Middle East, the Balkans and Latin America.

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