The best Turkish series you can watch on Netflix

Until recently, the normal thing when we wanted to refer to television soap operas was to refer to one of those that came to us from the Spanish-speaking countries in America. The terms South American soap opera were practically a genre in itself in our country that automatically took us back to the times of Pasión de Gavilanes , Cristal , La Dama de Rosa, Betty la Fea , etc. Now, incredibly, it is the Turkish fictions that have taken that witness.

The best Turkish series you can watch on Netflix

A globally expanding market

Antena 3 was one of the first channels in Spain to bet on this type of fiction with hits like Mi Hija , Mujer or Love is in the Air that resort to old stereotypes that any producer knows will work: impossible love stories, betrayals with good guys and bad guys, endless plots with countless chapters where the characters constantly appeal to feelings and that, mathematically, end up hopelessly hooking the audience.

Mi Hija.

In any case, the success of Turkish productions is not just a matter of Spain, series born from what is considered one of the most suggestive and exotic countries in the world are consumed all over the planet, which not only sells the tourism of its incredible cities, but also television products. So much so that its global audience is estimated at more than 600 million people who confess to having seen a series of Turkish origin in recent times. Based on data like this , Turkey is, after the US, the country that exports the most fiction content .

It is true that our country is a market that has traditionally consumed soap operas that are broadcast, above all, on television and that have enjoyed extraordinary audience figures. Perhaps for this reason, Netflix has launched to acquire a part of that enormous production of series that are made annually in Turkey, and that is around 60 to 70 every year. And obviously, not all of them deal with recurring themes such as love, female redemption in a truly traditional society, or the dramas of girls who are abandoned. There are other genres and themes through which they move and that is what we are going to talk about.

Best Turkish Netflix Series

Netflix, aware of the good reception of this type of fiction coming from Turkey, has not hesitated to acquire some titles to offer them on its platform . And in many cases, love is not the only leitmotif that moves its main performers, but others as interesting as those of the best-known series in our country.

So that’s why we bring you the titles of ten series that you can see right now on the platform. These are:

love 101

A group of outcast teenagers will find a goal to fight for when they set out to help a teacher find love and discover along the way that they themselves can choose the path their lives should take.

Hakan the Protector

A man decides to embark on a frantic search in which he will have to fight against the forces of evil while trying to discover a dark secret that haunts him. Lots of action for a series that departs from the stereotype we have of what a Turkish soap opera is.

The Gift

Istanbul is the setting in which this intimate story unfolds in which a painter embarks on an initiatory journey that takes her to the deep region of Anatolia. There she will discover a whole series of universal secrets in old archaeological remains that will be linked to her past.

Fatma

This series is the curious story of a cleaning woman who one day discovers that she has an innate talent for murder. Little by little, her anger will grow and she will make her victims pay for the resentment and pain suffered by her for so many years in which no one noticed her or took her into account.

50 m2

Series that puts a group of friends in the leading roles and that hide much more than we can imagine at first glance. Throughout all its chapters we will see the events that have marked their lives and the decisions they make and that can lead to confrontation with each other.

We met in Istanbul

Istanbul is once again the setting for this series in which the lives of different protagonists intersect , who make their way in a city where people transcend beyond the ethnic group or culture to which they belong and who go out in search of the limits, fears and desires that grip them.

Yakamoz S-245

Fiction quite far from the stereotype of a Turkish series and that takes us to a disaster that hits the Earth and that requires the mission of a group of experts who travel to the bottom of the sea to try to survive and, above all, discover a terrible conspiracy. As you can see, Yakamoz S-245 is quite far from the soap opera concept…

Midnight at the Pera Palace

Very interesting series in which a journalist stays in a luxurious hotel in Istanbul and, on her first night, suffers a strange phenomenon that transports her back in time to the year 1919. There, she will have to stop a plot that threatens to change the history of Turkey forever.

The Great Ottoman Empire

With a format that alternates dramatic scenes with documentary-style interviews with experts, this Turkish production tells us the story of how the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II undertook a mission in which no one believed, such as the attempt to take the capital of Byzantium, the last vestige of the Holy Roman Empire. The objective, as you probably already know, will be the capture of Constantinople.

club istanbul

Club Istanbul is a story that we could say pays homage to the best Turkish soap operas that we have seen, only that it gives it a unique touch of setting, since it takes us back to the 50s of the last century. A mother with a shady past who works at a nightclub goes to great lengths to take care of the rebellious daughter she couldn’t take care of.