These series have won over the Spanish audience and are here to stay
It seemed that the world of telenovelas was unique and exclusive to Latin American production companies, but that is not the case. Turkish soap operas have won over the Spanish audience. This type of series is a great success in Spain. Since titles like ‘Fatmagül’ or ‘Love is in the air’ attracted a large number of viewers, Turkish series have gained a foothold on the television network. More and more Turkish series are reaching the after dinner table on television in Spain. In recent years, this type of soap opera has gained a lot of ground.
The main plot of this series is love, as the central axis of the story, but also other human themes. Four years ago, Turkish soap operas landed in Spain and little by little they are seen more and more. This type of series has even reached mainstream channels, such as Antena 3 and Telecinco, with great audience success. There are numerous novels of Turkish origin currently being broadcast on Spanish television, especially on channels such as Nova and Divinity. If you are considering starting a telenovela, here is the list of the top rated:
This was one of the first Turkish soap operas to land in Spain. ‘Love is in the air’ tells the story of the romance between Eda, a young florist who dreams of graduating and studying in Italy, and Serkan, a wealthy heir. Eda loses her scholarship to study abroad because of Serkan. He offers her a deal, if she agrees to spend two months with him as if she were his fiancée, he will help her pay for her studies.
One of the Turkish series that revolutionized Spanish viewers was ‘Fatmagül’. It tells the story of a woman, Fatmagül, who lives with her brother and his wife in a coastal town. In her plans is to marry Mustafá, a young fisherman, to whom she is engaged. After a party, four men go to party and find Fatmagül. After harassing her, they rape her and cut off her life and her future, as Mustafa, after learning about the scandal, breaks off his engagement to her. It was such a success that Antena 3 created a Spanish version of this series starring Elena Rivera.
This series was broadcast in full prime time on the network of Antena 3. Öykü is an eight-year-old girl who lives with a friend of her mother. The woman who takes care of the girl has a rare disease and can no longer take care of her. He abandons her and gives her his father’s address so that she can live with him. Demir, Öykü’s father, did not know that he had a daughter and will have to learn to be a good father.
‘Mujer’ was a huge success in Spain, one of the series with the most audience. It tells the story of Bahar, a woman who was abandoned by her mother when she was 8 years old. After many years he meets Sarp and falls madly in love. After years of happiness, she is left a widow with only two reasons to cling to life, her children.
It tells the story of Sila, a young woman who was sold by her father to a wealthy couple from Istanbul. Years later, her real father shows up and cheats on her to take advantage of her good heart. Sila will be forced to marry an agha (person in an important position) to save her older brother’s life. This series was shown on Nova.
This series is based on the novel ‘Sümeyye Koç’. Reyyan is the granddaughter of one of the strongest families in Midyat. The leader of the family is her grandfather Nasuh, who mistreats Reyyan for not being his biological granddaughter, but she doesn’t know it. Reyyan marries Miran, but their relationship is disrupted by the secrets the families are hiding.
Melek was a servant who fell in love with one of the sons of the family she worked for. The young woman became pregnant, but Kenan’s mother took her away from her son and Melek believed he had abandoned her. Elif is born while her father marries another woman. Melek starts a relationship with an abusive man who likes to gamble. To protect his daughter, Melek hands Elif over to one of the maids of the Emiroglu mansion.
This telenovela airs on Antena 3 and has been the best daily premiere of a series in years. ‘Tierra amarga’ tells the love story of Züleyha and Yilmaz. His life is turned upside down after an attempted sexual assault and a crime. They flee the situation and reach a powerful landowner who lives with his overbearing mother. To them, they pretend to be brothers, something that will mark their future.
This novel is available on Netflix and Atresplayer. This series tells the story of Ömer and Elif’s chance meeting when his fiancée and her father are found murdered in a car. Both of them face each other from then on.
In “I Rent You My Love,” a waitress needs money to pay off her brother’s debt. He also takes care of his grandmother, his sister and his brother, after his father died and his mother left with another man. The waitress must marry Ömer to pay off the debt. He is a workaholic who is hard to please, but little by little the two understand each other.
Source: La Verdad
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