''Bizimkiler'' ''(Ours, Our People)'' was a Turkish

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, represented the lives of the people who shared the same neighborhood. It is also the name of musical project run by

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. The show is development of the movie

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for which Umur Bugay who is the creator of the tv series, was the screenwriter. It is one of the longest-running series in

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history. Due to lack of variety of television stations when series was first broadcast, the show attracted most of the audiences in

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and had huge cultural impact.

Production

Yalcın Yelence has directed all of the episodes, besides the last 6 ones. Producer Umur Bugay was also the screenwriter for all episodes, later assisted by Sulhi Dölek Series have been shot in

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, a district in Anatolian Side of

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Broadcast history

Series have been broadcast on Sunday prime time in

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between 1987-1994, in

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between 1994-1999 and in

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between 1999-2002. Re-run of the series have been broadcast irregularly both in various national and local television stations.

Main cast

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(1989-1997),

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(1997-2002) as Şükrü Başaran *

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(1989-1991), Engin Şenkan (1991-2002) as Şevket Başaran * Ayşe Kökçü as Nazan Başaran * Bensu Orhunöz as Bilge Başaran * Atılay Uluışık as Ali Başaran *

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as Sabri Dönmez *

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as Cafer Haktanır ''"Doorman"'' *

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as Sedat ''"Knock Knock"''" * Aykut Oray as Yavuz Korkmaz ''"Thug"'' * Uğurtan Sayıner as Cemil ''"Drunk"'' * Oktay Sözbir as Halil Arslan ''"Halil Marketing"'' * Selçuk Uluergüven as Davut Öztürk * Ali Uyandıran as Halis Öztürk ''"Dummkopf"'' * Savaş Yurttaş as Yengeç HüseyinBizimkiler
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References

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