Kerem Çatay (born 1979) is the CEO of

Ay Yapım Ay Yapım is a media production company founded by Kerem Çatay in 2005. The company was once a Turkish partner of "Sparks Network", which has partners in 20 countries around the world. It is one of the biggest production companies in Turkey. Its ...

, producer of various TV series and

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

's leading production company for drama series, formats, weekly and daily shows.

Education

Born in

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

, Kerem Çatay graduated from

Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...

Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences. He completed his education in the Film and Television program at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

Career

He is known as the producer of countless phenomenally successful TV series, from 2008's ground-breaking '' Aşk-ı Memnu'' (Forbidden Love) to 2009's '' Ezel''. Çatay's productions are renowned for their well-crafted, captivating stories based on both original screenplays and literary adaptations. Nearly all of Çatay's productions have been sold at least 41 countries, MENA to Sweden, Eastern & Southern Asia, Eastern Europe, the Balkans plus some of the African TV channels. They are also made available via the Internet worldwide.

Television series

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