Yasak Elma

Yasak Elma
Promotional poster
Also known asForbidden Fruit
GenreDrama
Romance
Written byMelis Civelek
Zeynep Gür
Directed byNeslihan Yeşilyurt
(1–74)
Murat Öztürk
(75–110)
Ece Erdek Koçoğlu
(111–177)
StarringŞevval Sam
Eda Ece
Nesrin Cavadzade
Biran Damla Yılmaz
Murat Aygen
Şebnem Dönmez
Sevda Erginci
Melisa Doğu
Theme music composerCem Tuncer
Ercüment Orkut
Efecan Tuncer
Country of originTurkey
Original languageTurkish
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes177
Production
ProducerFatih Aksoy
Production locationsIstanbul
Hatay
CinematographyErhan Makar
(1-110)
Hakan Dinçkuyucu
(111-177)
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time110-150 minutes
Production companyMedyapım
Original release
NetworkFox
Release19 March 2018 (2018-03-19) –
5 June 2023 (2023-06-05)

Yasak Elma (English title: Forbidden Apple) is a Turkish television series created by Medyapım, featuring actors Şevval Sam and Eda Ece. The show was written by Melis Civelek and Zeynep Gür, with Neslihan Yeşilyurt directing the first three seasons, Murat Öztürk taking over for the fourth season, and Ece Erdek Koçoğlu directing the fifth and sixth seasons.[1]

Plot

Season 1

Ender, a woman from the high society and wife of successful businessman Halit Argun, hires Yıldız Yılmaz as her husband's personal waitress. Ender later offers money in return for Yıldız to seduce Halit so Ender can get finances after their divorce but Yıldız betrays Ender and exposes her plan. Halit divorces Ender upon learning the truth. She is left without money and begins her struggle to maintain her past position in society. Meanwhile, Yıldız and Halit get married.

Yıldız's sister Zeynep falls for her boss, Alihan Taşdemir.

Season 2

Ender's and Yıldız's enmity and intrigue continue. Yıldız's first husband, Kemal, now well off, returns with a plan to take revenge on Yıldız, because she divorced him on the wedding day as she had been accepted for an acting opportunity. As Kemal was poor, she left him for fame and money. Later, Kemal and Yıldız fall for each other and Kemal asks Yıldız to choose between him and Halit. Yıldız finds it difficult to leave the life she has because of Halit. Kemal marries Zehra Argun, Yıldız's stepdaughter and Halit's daughter from his first wife, which disappoints Yıldız. Later, she successfully sends him away.

Ender's first love Kaya and his sister, Şahika are introduced. Halit is impressed by Şahika and her undeniable beauty and falls for her. Yıldız is pregnant at that time. Halit kicks her out of the house and she starts living in a village.

Ender and Kaya's son Yiğit, of whom Ender and Kaya are both unaware because Kaya never knew of Ender's pregnancy and Ender had given him for adoption when he was born, starts working for Şahika. He pushes Ender into the sea.

Zeynep and Alihan get married and leave for America.

Season 3

Ender and Yıldız become friends against Şahika. Yıldız names her son Halit Can and divorces Halit. Yıldız experiments with new career options, doing a weather show on TV and starts a project of producing apple puree using her grandmother's recipe. It turns out Şahika is working for Nadir who is Halit's enemy and he also becomes a partner in the company. Then Halit loses all of his money and shares and is forced to live with Sıtkı. Later, Şahika kills Nadir by poisoning him, and during his funeral shows up as his wife and winning all of his fortune. Ender marries Kaya, they also have 23 years old son. The season ends with Halit regaining his fortune and becoming Sahika's partner Holding Argun. Yıldız falls for Kerim, the director in Argun Holding hired by Şahika.

Season 4

Kaya divorces Ender. Halit marries Ender again because thanks to her he knew that Yıldız was cheating on him with Kerim. Halit dies after a scuffle with Yıldız, Ender and Şahika and his funeral is held the next day. Yıldız marries Çağatay, whose father HasanAli becomes a partner in the company. HasanAli kicks Ender and Şahika out of the company and they become poor. During this time they help each other. Later, they join the company back, Şahika marries HasanAli and later is sadly and undeservingly killed by Cansu, a spy hired by Ender and Şahika to live with HasanAli and give them inside information about him. The season ends with a bomb blast in HasanAli's house where he is present along with Ender, Yıldız and Zehra who unfortunately dies with HasanAli.

Season 5

Çağatay cheats on Yıldız with Kumru, a model and their neighbour. Yıldız is disheartened after she learns of this. She starts making her own shampoo and wins an award for it. At the ceremony, she publicly disgraces Çağatay and Kumru. She divorces Çağatay and marries Doğan, Kumru's father, this is a paper marriage to teach a lesson to Kumru and Çağatay. Kumru leaves Çağatay on their wedding day, thanks to Ender,when she learns he is only with her to take revenge on Doğan. Handan, Doğan's ex-wife returns and manages to win her daughter Kumru's heart and becomes a partner in the company. Kumru falls in love with Ekin, the son of Sami Onder, Doğan's enemy. Ekin has been sought out by Ender and Cagatay for his shares,in order to take down Doğan. Ekin is also hired by Handan to kill Doğan but the situation turns and the latter knocks him out and has his henchman drug him and leave him in a river as if he'd drowned. However, Cagatay saves him and they team up. The season ends with a car accident planned by Doğan to kill Çağatay in which Çağatay dies.

Season 6

Yıldız, upon learning Doğan's involvement in the car accident, complained against him and he was sent to prison. The season starts with a 2-year time lapse. Doğan and Yıldız's daughter Yıldız Su is born while Doğan is still in prison. Later, he is freed and him and Ender team up against Yıldız. Zeynep returns from the United States after divorcing Alihan and being married to someone else. She then marries Engin, Handan's poor turned rich brother. Kumru, Handan and Zeynep fall for doctor Selim, but he loves Kumru, so he stops his relation with Handan, her mom. After everything Kumru went through, Kumru is pretending that her name is Ezgi and lies about being poor because she wanted Selim to love her for being her, not because she’s rich. Doğan discovers his ex-wife Handan's relation with Selim, so he with Handan tries to stop Kumru & Selim's love. mel Kumru gets pregnant, but misunderstanding Selim's relation with Zeynep, she gets jealous and rejects his love, and she lies to everybody that Caner is the father of their child. Selim fights to regain Kumru but fails; he dies in a conflict with Doğan. Kumru and Caner get married. Doğan and Yıldız resolve their problems and get married.

At the end, Doğan dies while playing with Yıldız Su, Asuman, Emir and Sedai get married, and Kumru has another baby.

Finally, Ender and Yıldız live happily and rich.

Cast

Main

Actor/Actress Role Episodes
Şevval Sam Ender Çelebi Argun Taşdemir Ekinci Kuyucu Yıldırım 1-177
Eda Ece Yıldız Yılmaz Argun Kuyucu Yıldırım 1-177
Biran Damla Yılmaz Kumru Yıldırım Kuyucu Önder Çelebi 111-177
Murat Aygen Doğan Yıldırım 111-177
Sevda Erginci Zeynep Yılmaz Taşdemir Kılıç Gündüz 1-46,150-177
Şebnem Dönmez Handan Kılıç Yıldırım 134-177
Berk Oktay Çağatay Kuyucu 86-146
Barış Kılıç Kaya Ekinci 37-85, 106-110
Nesrin Cavadzade Şahika Ekinci Kuyucu 44-108
Talat Bulut Halit Argun 1-85
Onur Tuna Alihan Taşdemir 1-46

Supporting

Actor/Actress Role Episodes
Vildan Vatansever Aysel Rüstem 1-177
Barış Aytaç Caner Çelebi 2-177
Serkan Rutkay Ayıköz Emir Yüksel 3-177
Melisa Doğu Asuman Yılmaz 8-177
Bahtiyar Memili Sedai Yıldırım 86-177
Sonat Tokuç Cemal 134-177
Emir Kaan Özkan Halit Can Argun Kuyucu 2 147-177
Güneş Ünlü Yıldız Su Yıldırım 147-177
Utku Ateş Ata Gündüz 166-177

Departed characters

Actor/Actress Role Episodes
Nehir Erdoğan Julia Moran 161-175
Sarp Ikiler Aslan 163-172
Emre Kızılırmak Selim Avcıoğlu 155-171
Elif Yılmaz Tuğçe 161-171
Neriman Uğur Sevim Avcıoğlu 162-167
Murat Onuk Koray Avcıoğlu 162-166
Bekir Aksoy Engin Kılıç 147-166
Pelin Orhuner Selen Yıldırım 162-163
Ece Özdikici Hilal Altınyüz 147-155
Kenan Acar Altay Güven 147-153
Ali Yasin Özegemen Tarcan 147-152
Can Ceylan Murat 141-148
Sena Yıldız Gamze 131-146
Ceyhun Mengiroğlu Ekin Önder 130-146
Kuzey Gezer Halit Can Argun Kuyucu 1 51-146
Soydan Soydaş Feedo 141-144
Erdal Bilingen Çetin Hilal 111-141
Cansel Elçin Cenk Akın 138-140
Ece Irtem Meriç Kırgız 129-135
Emre Dinler Ömer Kurtoğlu 102-133
Nihan Aypolat Arzu Kip 115-128
Ece Dizdar Feyza Üstündağ 110-128
Gökhan Civan Sami Önder 125-128
Yasmin Erbil Canan Baskıcı 111-120
Hayati Akbaş Hayati 93-110
Gülenay Kalkan Ünlüoğlu Feride Taşkın 86-110
Erdal Özyağcılar Hasan Ali Kuyucu 86-110
Gamze Atay Güler 86-110
Şafak Pekdemir Zehra Argun 1-110
Nilperi Şahinkaya Cansu Yıldırım 93-108
Selin Uzal Diana 105-107
Mert Altınışık Mahmut Haznedar 86-102
Can Nergis Mert Kara 74-100
Mehmet Pamukçu Sıtkı 1-92
Ahmet Haktan Zavlak Erim Argun 2 75-86
Buçe Buse Kahraman Lila Argun 2 48-86
Gökhan Alkan Kerim İncesu 72-85
Doğaç Yıldız Yiğit Ekinci 42-85
Talat Bulut Halit Argun 1-85
İlber Kaboğlu Erim Argun 1 1-74
Mertkan Arat Akın 49-74
Hakan Karahan Nadir Kılıç 57-71
Tuvana Türkay Ayşe/Leyla Çelebi 49-70
Nilgün Türksever Zerrin Taşdemir 1-46, 64-67
Cavit Çetin Güler Hilmi 54-56
Ege Kokenli Yağmur 45-47
Ayşegül Çınar Lila Argun 1 1-47
Ahmet Kayakesen Hakan Kurtuluş 2 13-46
Erdem Kaynarca Dündar Çelikkan 27-40
Tolga Sala Kurban 27-40
Sarp Can Köroğlu Atakan Kemal Karaca 15-37
Zeynep Bastık İrem Yılmaz 23-33
Ebru Şahin Hira Bozok 14-23
Gün Akıncı Cem Uzun 10-21
Yeliz Şar Defne 14-19
Kıvanç Kasabalı Sinan Saygın 1-14
İrem Kahyaoğlu Şengül Doğan 1-14
Tuğçe Koçak Lal Uzun 1-13
Sinan Eroğlu Hakan Kurtuluş 1 1-12

Broadcast schedule

Season no. Airing day and time Season premiere Season finale No. of episodes Episode range Year Network
Season 1 Monday 20:00 19 March 2018 4 June 2018 12 1-12 2018 Fox
Season 2 Monday 20:00 10 September 2018 27 May 2019 35 13-47 2018-2019 Fox
Season 3 Monday 20:00 9 September 2019 23 March 2020 27 48-74 2019-2020 Fox
Season 4 Monday 20:00 7 September 2020 10 May 2021 36 75-110 2020-2021 Fox
Season 5 Monday 20:00 13 September 2021 13 June 2022 36 111-146 2021-2022 Fox
Season 6 Monday 20:00 19 September 2022 5 June 2023 31 147-177 2022-2023 Fox

References

  1. ^ "Yasak Elma oyuncuları ve konusu! Yasak Elma 1. bölüm özeti". Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.