Second Spring (TV series)

Second Spring (İkinci Bahar)
Ali Haydar's restaurant
Genre	Drama
Written by	Sulhi Dölek
Starring	Şener Şen Türkan Şoray Tarık Pabuççuoğlu Many others
Theme music composer	Vedat Sakman
Country of origin	Turkey
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	37
Production
Producer(s)	Directed by Uğur Yücel Orhan Oğuz Türkan Derya
Production company(s)	Most Production
Release
Original network	ATV and Kanal 6
Original release	29 October 1998 – 11 January 2001

Second Spring (Turkish: İkinci Bahar) was a television series in Turkey broadcast between 1998-2001 by ATV. First 8 epidodes appeared between 29 October 1998 – 20 May 1999 (with some reruns). The next 15 epidodes were between 17 February-25 May 2000 and the last 14 episodes were between 21 September 2000 – 11 January 2001. There were also reruns; in 2007 by Fox TV and in 2011-2012 by Star TV.

In Turkish, the phrase "Second Spring" refers to middle age romance. The main characters in the series, Ali Haydar and Hanım as well as the main antagonists Vakkas and Neriman are middle age characters. But there are young characters too. For example Ali Haydar has three daughters, Hanım has a daughter and a son.

The scene is a market place in Samatya neighbourhood of İstanbul. There are a number of stories interrelated to each other. Ali Haydar, a widower, is a kebap restaurant owner. (Kebap is grilled meat) Hanım, also a widow, is his female meze cook (Meze is a group of small dishes served during the meal). Ali Haydar soon falls in love with Hanım. But the situation is complicated, because his landlady Neriman an ex-actress whom Ali Haydar is in dept, too wants to marry Ali Haydar. Another problem of Ali Haydar is Vakkas, the owner of a rival restaurant whose father was Ali Haydar's tutor. Vakkas tries everything to ruin Ali Haydar with financial plots. While the fathers are struggling, Ali Haydar's elder daughter Melek and Vakkas' son Medet are secretly planning to marry. Cennet, Ali Haydar’s second daughter decides not to show up in her graduation ball because she doesn’t know how to dance. But Tim, a tourist working as an aide in Haydar's restaurant volunteers to teach her how to dance. Hanım has different problems. Her daughter Gülsüm who has an affair with a wealthy man, gets pregnant and her son Ulaş is planning to migrate to US illegally. Meanwhile Secaattin (Şeco for short), Neriman's brother, a zabıta (local municipality police) whom all shopkeepers hate, is trying to fix problems with his ex-wife (who is his superior in the office) and his son.

There are more than 30 characters. The important ones are as follows.

Tarık Pabuççuoğlu