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and ended in 2014. The primary cast included

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and Mehmet Korhan Fırat. It was controversial and popular. Some say it portrayed

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badly. One 2015 academic study said that “In such TV series the armed Kurdish groups and their supporters are portrayed as uncivilised, rural and associated with brutal traits such as forced marriages and honour killings. Although in reality such things happen across the country regardless of ethnicity, some TV series are misleadingly creating an understanding that only associates such events with the Kurds.”

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