Poyraz Karayel
Poyraz Karayel is a Turkish drama television series that was broadcast on Kanal D from 2015 to 2017.[1][2] It stars İlker Kaleli as Poyraz Karayel and Burçin Terzioğlu as Ayşegül Umman. After its last episode aired on 1 March 2017, it broke records and became the best Turkish action series; it was so successful that they produced a movie of it, and in 2019 a book with which despite the restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic reached the highest number of figures in the publisher, more than 500,000 people were waiting in the outskirts and 2 million copies were sold in one day, so much so that that same day sales were even sold out on Amazon.
Poyraz Karayel | |
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Genre | Drama Action Romance Thriller |
Written by | Ethem Özışık |
Directed by | Çağrı Vila Lostuvalı (seasons 1 and 2) Osman Taşci (season 3) |
Starring | İlker Kaleli Burçin Terzioğlu Musa Uzunlar |
Country of origin | Turkey |
Original language | Turkish |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 82 |
Production | |
Producer | Hayri Aslan |
Production location | Istanbul |
Running time | 120-150 minutes |
Production company | Limon Film |
Release | |
Original network | Kanal D |
Original release | 7 January 2015 – 1 March 2017 |
Related | |
Poyraz Karayel: Küresel Sermaye (movie) |
Plot
Season 1
Poyraz meets Aysegul in a taxi and further in the episodes he falls in love with her. However he doesn't know that Aysegul is Bahri Umman's daughter, which although he finds out he decides not to tell Aysegul that he is working with her father. Further in season 1 Poyraz finds out that the chief police 'Mumtaz' has lied to him and that it was Mumtaz's fault that he got blamed of committing a crime. He then also finds out that the person that gave Mumtaz the command to pull Poyraz in this trap was his father in law Unsal. In the meantime Bahri Umman finds out that his daughter and Poyraz are together, which leads to chaos.
Season 2
In the second season of Poyraz Karayel, Poyraz's sister Meltem Karayel is introduced. Further in the season Poyraz and the other characters find out that the man that they know as Poyraz's dad is actually his step father. Poyraz then finds out that his actual father is Adil Topal and that Adil Topal is Bahri Umman's enemy from 30 years ago. This then leads to Poyraz and the crew to get revenge from Adil Topal who dies soon in season 2. However the death of Adil Topal doesn't leave the Umman household with a happy end as after Adil Topal's son, Poyraz's half brother Neset Topal, replaces his fathers place and starts to sell drugs abroad. He also has psychological problems and has a onesided love towards Aysegul. The second seasons carries on with Poyraz and his crew to stop and kill Neset, which they finally do. However, not everything ends as they wish as at the end of season 2 Poyraz is shot dead.
Season 3
Poyraz wasn't dead. He returns to Istanbul after being held hostage for two years by a terrorist group he had been investigating. He comes back right on the day of Aysegul's wedding. Things will take a strange turn, because both Poyraz and Aysegul feel like they have been betrayed by the other. After a series of arguments and confessions, the two of them reunite and Aysegul manages to get a divorce. They get engaged. Zulficar and Meltem eventually have three children, Aysegul is murdered by her former mother-in-law and Poyraz goes insane. Bahri dies a few months after Aysegul's death, leaving Sadretin as the head of the Istanbul mafia.
Ahmet Poyraz Karayel Poyraz Karayel first appearance Poyraz Karayel Episode 1 last view Poyraz Karayel Episode 82 creator Ethem Özışık Uplifting Ilker Kaleli Date of birth 17 May 1981 Information Gender Male Profession Police Family İsmail Karayel (stepfather) (died) Adil Topal (father) (died) Neşet Topal (brother) (died) Meltem Karayel (brother) Marriage(s) Begum (ex-wife) children Sinan Karayel He is the character played by İlker Kaleli . (1-82)
He was born on 17 May 1981. He is Adil Topal's son, Meltem's older brother, Neşet's brother, Sinan's father and Begüm's ex-wife. His middle name is Ahmet. When he was 3 years old, he was given to İsmail Karayel by a friend of his father along with his sister Meltem. Until the 39th episode of the series, Poyraz thought that his father was İsmail Karayel.
He spent his school years in a boarding school. In the first season of the series, Poyraz, who was a police officer in the Anti-Organized Crime and Anti-Smuggling Branch, was sentenced to prison for a slander and custody of his son was given to his ex-father-in-law, Ünsal.
After getting out of prison, Bahri starts working with Oman to both get custody of his son back and follow him, but leaves when it is revealed that he is a police officer. Poyraz, who was also the superintendent at the Organized Crime desk at the beginning of the second season, was later promoted to become the chief of police.
Although he is seen as the punk type by others, he is actually a very nice person. She complains that she has never seen love in her life. He is very fond of his son. He is also in love with Ayşegül, daughter of Bahri Oman. He resigned from the police in the 44th episode of the series. After leaving the police, he works for Bahri Oman. His worst enemy is his half-brother Neşet Topal, who reappeared years later.
In the last episode of the second season of the series, Poyraz Karayel played Neşet's game and killed the son of the Russian consul. Poyraz Karayel, who was shot during the conflict, was declared dead, but he was actually alive and was rescued by intelligence.
Poyraz, whom everyone thought to be dead, worked undercover for two years in the name of intelligence. Two years later, he reappeared at Ayşegül's wedding. In the final episode of the series, he could not stand Ayşegül's death and was hospitalized in a mental hospital.
Cast
Actor/Actress | Character | Episodes |
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İlker Kaleli | Ahmet Poyraz Karayel | 1-82 |
Burçin Terzioğlu | Müzeyyen Ayşegül Umman Çilingir | 1-82 |
Musa Uzunlar | Bahri Umman | 1-82 |
Şebnem Hassanisoughi | Begüm Özbakan | 16- 62 |
Ali İl | Sadreddin Umman | 1-82 |
Özkan Uğur | İsmail Karayel/Adil Topal | 28- 42 |
Ataberk Mutlu | Sinan Karayel | 1-82 |
Kanbolat Görkem Arslan | Sefer Kılıçaslan | 1- 46 |
Celil Nalçakan | Zülfikar Ülger | 1-82 |
Emel Çölgeçen | Sema Koral | 1- 62 |
Murat Daltaban | Mümtaz Tok | 1- 24/ 64-82 |
Ece Özdikici | Songül Umman | 1-82 |
Cem Cücenoğlu | Taş Kafa | 1-82 |
İsmail Düvenci | Cevher Albay | 1-82 |
Gülçin Hatıhan | Ümran | 1-82 |
Emirhan Akbaba | İsa | 1-82 |
Murat Prosçiler | Ufuk Kantar | 24- 32 |
Hare Sürel | Meltem Karayel | 26-82 |
Fırat Çelik | Mete Durukan | 25-37 |
Completed characters
Actor/Actress | Character | Episodes |
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Kirkor Dinçkayıkçı | İsmail Karagül | 1-24 |
Engin Benli | Zafer Biryol | 1-24 |
Emir Özden | Oğuz Ayaz | 16-21 |
Enis Yıldız | Necdet | 1-21 |
Emir Bozkurt | Bülent | 1-10 |
Halil Karaata | Kulaksız Adnan | 1-9 |
Onur Kırat | Serkan Vadar | 1-2 |
Volkan Bora Dilek | Gürkan | 1-2 |
Nuri Tanır | Cemil | 1 |
David Dimitrijevski | Mete | 30-82 |
Macit Koper | Adil Topal | 40-50 |
Semih Eraslan | Selçuk Erensoy | 36-49 |
Atilla Öner | Madde Satıcısı | |
Series overview
Season | No. of episodes | Originally broadcast (Turkey) | ||
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Series premiere | Series finale | |||
1 | 24 | 7 January 2015 | 17 June 2015 | |
2 | 38 | 30 September 2015 | 15 June 2016 | |
3 | 20 | 12 October 2016 | 1 March 2017 |
References
- "Kanal D'nin yeni dizisi Poyraz Karayel". Kanal D (in Turkish). Retrieved October 3, 2015.
- "For My Son (Poyraz Karayel)". Turkish Drama. March 14, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
External links
- Official website (in Turkish)
- Poyraz Karayel at IMDb