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Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Turkish pronunciation: [muhteˈʃem ˈjyzjɯl], lit. ' Magnificent Century ') is a Turkish historical drama series. Written by Meral Okay and Yılmaz Şahin, it is based on the life of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and his wife Hürrem Sultan, a slave girl who became the first Ottoman Haseki Sultan. [2]
The series follows the life of Kösem Sultan, the most powerful and influential woman in the Ottoman Empire.It chronicles her journey from being brought as a slave into the Imperial harem of Ahmed I, through her rise to power and influence as Haseki Sultan, to becoming a formidable ruler who dominated the Ottoman Empire as Valide Sultan and Naib i Sultanat during the reigns of her sons Murad ...
Without previously ever having had an interest or desire to work as an actress, Çehre debuted in her first film, Yaban Gülü, or "The Wild Rose", at the age of seventeen in 1962, and also did modelling from this time. However, Çehre did not like her screen character and described her character as a "rich and spoiled girl".
In the absence of the Sultan, Valide decides to get rid of Hürrem by marrying her to the son of Suleiman's former teacher, Lala Kasim Pasha. During a walk in the garden, Hürrem is shown to her fiancé. Suleiman and Ibrahim are developing a plan for an attack on Belgrade. At a feast hosted by Valide, Hürrem is informed about her upcoming ...
Ayşe Hafsa Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: حفصه سلطان; "womanly/the living one" and "young lioness"; 1479 – 19 March 1534), was a concubine of Selim I and the mother of Suleiman the Magnificent. She was the first Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and, during the period between her son's enthronement in 1520 until her death in 1534, she ...
Kösem Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: كوسم سلطان; [a] 1589 – 2 September 1651), also known as Mahpeyker Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: ماه پیكر; [b] lit. ' Moon visage '), was the Haseki Sultan as the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I, Valide Sultan as a mother of sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim and Büyük Valide Sultan as a grandmother of Sultan Mehmed IV as well ...
In the 2003 Turkish TV miniseries, Hürrem Sultan, Mihrimah was played by Turkish actress Özlem Çınar. [63] In the 2011–2014 TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl (The Magnificent Century) she was portrayed by Pelin Karahan. [64] She appears as a central character in The Architect's Apprentice, a 2014 novel by Elif Shafak. [65] [66]
Meral Okay became known for roles in Turkish films and television series. [4] She also produced the television series, Second Spring from 1998 to 2001. [4] For one of her last projects, Okay worked as the main screenwriter for the historical TV series, Muhteşem Yüzyıl, based on the life of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.