Turkish Drama

Mr David Livingstone, one of Mrs Caldicot's friends from The Twilight Years Rest Home, has unexpectedly inherited a seaside pleasure pier which has a theatre at one end and a hotel at the other. `Is it near the sea?' asks Miss Nightingale. For reasons which become clear, Mrs Caldicot and the others have to move into the hotel on the pier. The local council wants to turn the pier into a dull conference centre. The inevitable excitement, adventure, chaos and joy all follow quite naturally. All the usual characters are here and there are a few new ones too. `Mrs Caldicot's Turkish Delight' is ...

Kidnapped from her home in Cairo, Egypt, Laila is placed on an auction block in Constantinople and sold to work as a handmaid to a wealthy man and his daughter. Unhappy as a maid and leery of the lustful advances of her owner, Laila dreams of returning to her home. Laila is sold to a Turkish harem where she catches the eye of the handsome yet arrogant palace heir, Kudar al Numan. As Laila fights to deny her feelings for Kudar, their relationship is threatened by the jealousy of another woman. To keep the couple apart, Laila’s nemesis hatches a plan to force her to make a choice…return ...

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now. Dark magic is unleashed on the streets of Istanbul . . . When a newborn baby is found drowned in the shallow waters of the Golden Horn...

Mehmet believes his life has finally found calm. Married to the passionate and fiercely loving Lale, and devoted to their young son Emre, he hopes the turbulence of their past is finally behind them. Then a single unexpected visit shatters that illusion. A former love returns, not with accusations or demands, but with a six-year-old daughter who calls him “Papa”. A child born of a love interrupted by pride, class divisions, and a mother’s interference. A child Mehmet never knew existed. What follows is not a story of betrayal, but of reckoning. As Lale is forced to confront her ...

Erin Ozcomert, a beautiful, graduate student at UCLA, has always felt compelled to learn more about the little-known stories of her father; stories that have been hidden from her since his death several years before. Leaving modern day Los Angeles, Erin is swept into the ancient customs and traditions of her father’s village in northeastern Turkey. What she learns there is not at all what she had expected to find. As she is enfolded into the loving arms of her Aunt Fatma Ozkoy, Erin discovers a place where tradition prevails in social ceremonies and family feuds are still kindling hatred ...

Levent and Zeynep agree to an arranged marriage, expecting practicality, stability, and maybe — if they are lucky — companionship. But almost from the first moment, their connection surprises them both. What should have been a cultural obligation becomes an unexpected love story, strengthened even more when Zeynep discovers she is pregnant. Three days before the wedding, everything changes. A letter arrives from Elif — the daughter Zeynep was forced to give up as a pregnant sixteen-year-old. Now Elif is sixteen herself and wants to meet her birth mother. What begins as a shock becomes...

Learn the most important words and phrases for everyday situations and travelling with the audio-learning course "Turkish for you"...

Selin thought she had mourned the past. Three years after her husband's death, life had settled into quiet routines… until a man who looked exactly like her late husband walked into the family memorial. Erol — Cem’s long-lost twin brother — returns to Istanbul carrying the shadows of a painful past. As secrets unravel, Selin finds herself drawn to the one man who stirs both her heart and her fears. But when the woman who once divided the brothers reappears with a child—Cem's daughter—the lives of everyone involved are thrown into turmoil once again. As love, loss, and the weight...