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| Lavish new saga starts next week in Turkey |
I announced a few weeks ago that we are expecting a lavish new epic series from Turkey, and today we have first cast photos from
MEHMED THE CONQUEROR (
Mehmed Bir Cihan Fatihi) which starts airing on KanalD in Turkey March 20th!
Kenan İmirzalıoğlu leads the cast playing the most infamous of all Ottoman sultans.
Gürkan Uygun will star as Delibaş,
Sedef Avcı as one of Mehmed's wives Sultana Gülbahar,
Ertan Saban as Byzantine İmperator Konstantin,
İsmail Demirci as Prince Orhan,
İdil Fırat as Mehmed's Valide Sultana Serbian princess Despina Mara
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| The new saga will try to continue the worldwide success of Magnificent Century |
(she is first on the left from Mehmed in the cast photo)... Stay tuned as I will updating this spotlight with new character photos as they arrive from Istanbul!
THE STORY OF MEHMED In 1451, as Mehmed receives the news of his father's death and goes from Manisa to imperial
capital Edirne, a dream appears in his head: as the new sultan he will conquer the apple of the whole world's eye - the city of
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| Kenan Imirzalioglu plays the title role of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror |
Constantinople. But achieving such a big dream cannot be easy, and big obstacles will emerge. The magnificent
Byzantine city has been besieged many times over the centuries; but no siege weapons were able to open a
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| Popular Turkish actor Ismail Demirci plays Mehmed's brother Prince Orhan |
single breach in their strong walls, nor did the
Golden Horn give way to the enormous chain of enemy ships. Moreover, if Mehmed wants to get the city for himself, he has to fight not only against the Byzantine Empire and the Christian world behind him, but also against the greatest opposition in the
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| Sedef Avci will play one of Mehmed's wives Sultana Gulbahar |
state, mighty Halil Pasha. Two years after his ascension to the throne, after a two months long siege, Mehmed carries out his biggest dream and conquers Constantinople and finally earns name
MEHMED THE CONQUEROR which will make him famous throughout the history.
