Asi (TV series)

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Asi
Genre	Drama, Romance, Telenovela
Written by	Gül Dirican ; Neşe Cehiz ; Şebnem Çıtak
Directed by	Cevdet Mercan
Starring	Tuba Büyüküstün ; Murat Yıldırım ; Çetin Tekindor ; Tuncel Kurtiz ; Nur Sürer ; Selma Ergeç
Opening theme	Asi Jenerik
Ending theme	Yenemedik Gururu by Eylem Aktaş
Composer	Nail Yurtsever
Country of origin	Turkey; North Macedonia
Original language	Turkish
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	71 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Tomris Giritlioğlu; Ilgaz Giritlioğlu
Producers	Bahadır Atay; Basar Arcak; Nermin Eroğlu
Production locations	Antakya, Turkey,; Ohrid, Macedonia
Cinematography	Murat Ceylan
Running time	90 minutes
Production company	Sis Yapım
Original release
Network	Kanal D, Sitel
Release	July 21, 2007 –; June 15, 2009

Asi (Turkish pronunciation: [aːˈsiː]) is a Turkish television drama series. The series originally aired from July 21, 2007, to June 15, 2009. It ran for two seasons on Kanal D.^[1]

Premise

The series is set in a rural part of Antakya and revolves around the lives of Asi Kozcuoğlu (Tuba Büyüküstün), and Demir Doğan (Murat Yıldırım), and their respective families.

For three generations, the Kozcuoğlu family owns a prominent plantation in Antakya. Keeping this farm alive is their foremost goal. The owner, Ihsan Kozcuoğlu (Çetin Tekindor), and his daughter, Asi, work and live for their land. Years ago, Demir's mother, Emine (Elif Sümbül Sert), and aunt, Süheyla (Tülay Günal), were workers on the Kozcuoğlu farm until his mother drowned herself with her two kids Demir and Melek in the nearby river called Asi /Orontes (The modern name ‘Asi` means ("rebel"), because the river flows from the south to the north unlike the rest of the rivers in the region.). Her children survived, Demir and Melek, and they went on to live with their aunt Süheyla. Demir returns to his hometown as a rich businessman. Still embittered about the circumstances that drove his mother to her death, he meets Asi and is immediately drawn to her. However, the lives of the Kozcuoğlu family and Demir's family bear more connections from the past that constantly seem to get in between. Family secrets start unravel after Süheyla returns to be with her nephew Demir. Murder, death, affairs, and a love child is discovered as everyone's life is turned upside down when decade old secrets come to surface. Demir and Asi's love is tested to the limits as they struggle to hold to their affection while their world crumbles around them.

Episodes

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	Season premiere	Season finale
	1	34	October 26, 2007 (2007-10-26)	June 27, 2008 (2008-06-27)
	2	37	September 12, 2008 (2008-09-12)	June 19, 2009 (2009-06-19)