Aşk-ı Memnu (TV series)
Aşk-ı Memnu (English: Forbidden Love) is a Turkish romantic drama television series produced by Ay Yapım Productions and originally broadcasting by Kanal D between 2008 and 2010. It has been adapted from Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil´s novel Aşk-ı Memnu, but takes place in the modern day instead of the novel´s late 19th-century setting.
Story
Rich widower Adnan Ziyagil lives in a Konak (a type of mansion) on the shore of Istanbul´s bosporus strait with his two children Nihal and Bülent, playboy Behlül, who is a distant relative, and the children’s nanny Deniz. When Adnan meets Bihter, a much younger woman, he suddenly falls in love with her. Bihter is also a socialite couple’s daughter and agrees to marry him thinking this as a form of revenge against her mother Firdevs who fancies Adnan. Despite opposition from Adnan´s children and Firdevs, the marriage goes ahead. But then Bihter and Behlül start an affair which will have far reaching effects
Aşk-ı Memnu
Forbidden Love
The series has also been broadcast in Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia Slovenia and Iran. It will also be broadcast in Greece.
