Halef: Köklerin Çağrısı

About the series

Halef: Köklerin Çağrısı (literally The Successor: Call of the Roots) is a Turkish drama produced by Most Production, written by Ercan Uğur and directed by Deniz Çelebi Dikilitaş. It premiered on NOW on 18 September 2025 and is now in its second season. The leads are İlhan Şen and Biran Damla Yılmaz. Aybüke Pusat starred alongside İlhan Şen in the first 35 episodes.

Set in Şanlıurfa in south-eastern Turkey, Halef is one of the popular dramas of 2026.

Plot

Serhat Yelduran is a successful surgeon living in Istanbul, far from his family’s world. He has secretly married Melek, the woman he loves. When his family calls him back to Urfa, Serhat is forced to face the old feud between the Yelduran and Kordağlı families, and the role of heir, or halef, that his roots demand of him.

Main cast

• İlhan Şen as Serhat Yelduran
• Biran Damla Yılmaz as Yıldız Kordağlı
• Aybüke Pusat as Melek Özdel (episodes 1–35)
• Onur Bilge as Akif Yelduran

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