Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki

Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki
Written by	Coşkun Irmak
Directed by	Zeynep Günay Tan
Starring	Erkan Petekkaya Ayça Bingöl Yıldız Çağrı Atiksoy Farah Zeynep Abdullah Aras Bulut İynemli Meral Çetinkaya Emir Berke Zincidi Wilma Elles
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language(s)	Turkish
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	120
Production
Producer(s)	D Productions
Running time	~100 minutes
Release
Original network	Kanal D
Original release	September 10, 2010 – June 18, 2013

Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki (As Time Goes By) is a Turkish drama television series broadcast by Kanal D. It is based on a true story.

Season 1

The series is set in 1967 and revolves around the Akarsu family. Ali Akarsu is the patriarch of the family and he works as a seaman and the captain of a ship. He is married to Cemile and they have 4 children: Berrin (a law student at İstanbul University), Aylin and Mete, who are high school students, as well as 5-year-old son, Osman. When Ali goes on one of his many trips, he begins an affair with a Dutch woman named Caroline and that leads to the disintegration of the Akarsu family. When Caroline comes to Turkey uninvited, Cemile wounds her by stabbing and goes to jail. Caroline is hospitalized. There she sets her terms: Ali must get a divorce from Cemile in order for Caroline to drop charges against Cemile and release her from jail. Caroline moves in with Ali. Cemile and children get evicted from their house and are without money. Ali lets Cemile and children live in the unfinished house in Zeytinli, while setting obstacles for Cemile for finding a job. However Ali's mother Hasefe supports Cemile totally and helps her on daily basis.

Mete, the oldest son, sets the house on fire and Ali refuses to pay alimony to Cemile with the excuse of house restoration. Mete gets jailed for arson and beaten in jail. Ali demands the younger son, Osman, to live with him and Caroline, in order to drop the charges against Mete and set him free. Osman gets abused by Caroline, and almost drowns in the sea while Ali was procrastinating. Fortunately, Ali's acquaintance "The Fisherman" sees the child in the water and rescues Osman. Osman returns to live with his mother because of Ali's inability to take care of the boy. There, the family friendship with "The Fisherman" blossoms. He falls in love with Cemile and asks her to marry him. Ali gets crazily jealous and promises to kill him if he doesn't back off. Meanwhile, Aylin, the middle daughter is desperate from living in poverty, agrees to marry Murat, the brother of the man that she is in love with, Soner Talaşoğlu. She also signs a prenuptial agreement, where the term is that she will become rich only after Murat's death, who is ill with an incurable disease, which makes him unable to walk and to keep his marital duties in bed. Another sister, Berrin, a university student, falls in love with Ahmet, a member of student Marxist movement, while another student, Hakan, son of a wealthy right wing man, is desperately in love with her. Ahmet's mother gets accidentally shot by the bullet which was supposed to kill Ahmet by the assassin hired by Ekram, father of Hakan. Hakan picks the gun and Ahmet starts looking for the revenge, believing that Hakan killed his mother. When truth revealed, Ahmet kills the assassin and wounds Ekram. People of Ekram start the hunting. Berrin hides Ahmet but the police find him and arrest him. Hakan helps him to flee abroad, however at a price, Berrin must marry him.

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