Burhan Öçal

Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.

After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a retired judicial officer decides to commit a murder that he had been planning for years.

Reeling from tragedy, a nondescript house cleaner embarks on a murderous streak as she searches for her missing husband and reckons with old wounds.

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When a woman fakes a trip with her bestie to secretly meet with her internet boyfriend, her unaware mother forces her to take her problematic brother.

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The famous businessman Fahri and his family are kidnapped by Somali pirates. The pirates demand a large ransom from Turkey for the release of the businessman and his family. The Turkish government decides to form an illegal team for this task. Colonel Mehmet, who has been imprisoned for a long time, is offered this mission in exchange for his release. Mehmet, along with six people selected from the prisoners, will try to rescue Fahri and his family.

The story of the mystical world of a young Mevlevi dervish who witnesses the emotional relationship between two young members of the palace, amid the efforts of a handful of people seeking peace in Istanbul in the days leading up to the 1798 Ottoman-French war. The dervish, who is responsible for keeping the Mevlevi records, is also in the service of Nuri Dede Efendi, a former Ottoman pasha. Dede Efendi and some of his old friends, who are French diplomats, are trying to prevent the impending war. This unofficial effort is being carried out at Sahilsaray, which belongs to Beyhan Sultan, the sister of Sultan Selim III. A bond develops between Halil, the court physician accompanying Dede Efendi during the diplomatic negotiations, and Gülnihal Kalfa, Beyhan Sultan's assistant. The young dervish who accompanies Dede Efendi to Sahilsaray brings a notebook filled with pages that blend the story he has witnessed in its entirety with passages reflecting the teachings of Mevlana...

Sequel of He's in Army Now. The film has received four awards at the Antalya Golden Orange.

In Fethiye, the team that organizes crazy island tours for tourists with a pirate ship will try to prevent a war that is about to break out in Turkey. The team members, who are not soldiers by profession, will try to do this in their own way. Unexpected events will occur in the Blue Homeland.

The mother is separated from her child by the change of the country's borders. Will Hayat be able to get back to her mother, or will her remain in the hands of customs director Suna, who wants to have her very much.

Return to the Nest tells the story of a young woman who, following the death of her mother, sets out to find her father, whom she has never met. In 1985, during the Iran-Iraq War, a large-scale operation is carried out to bring 215 passengers from Iran to Turkey. Among these passengers, whose lives have been saved, is a young Japanese girl named Keiko. Keiko falls deeply in love with Zafer, a lieutenant in the special forces stationed at the Turkish Embassy in Iran. However, the war forces them apart. Zafer manages to get her onto the plane heading to Turkey to save her life. But there is one crucial thing he does not know: Keiko is pregnant. After arriving in Turkey, Keiko gives birth to her daughter Yumi.

Yeşim is a successful and wealthy fashion designer. Her long-term relationship with businessman Bülent is about to culminate in marriage when she meets Okan. Okan, a musician, captivates Yeşim with his boundless sense of freedom. The complex web of relationships draws the lives of three people into an unknown destiny. The film, which explores the delicate balance between love and pain through striking visuals and dialogue, is centered around the music of Sezen Aksu.

The documentary explores one of Istanbul’s most significant art monuments, tracing nearly 700 years of cultural and artistic history through the mosaics and frescoes of the Kariye Mosque (Chora Church). By combining visual analysis with a distinctive soundscape—from Byzantine hymns and Orthodox prayers to the Islamic call to prayer and Ottoman takbirs—the documentary emphasizes Istanbul’s layered cultural continuity and enduring intercultural dialogue.