Asi (TV series)


Asi 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.

Premise

The series is set in a rural part of Antakya and revolves around the lives of Asi Kozcuoğlu, and Demir Doğan, 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, and his daughter, Asi, work and live for their land. Years ago, Demir's mother, Emine, and aunt, Süheyla, 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. 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.

Cast

Main cast
Supporting cast
  • Kenan Bal as Namık
  • Onur Saylak as Ziya
  • Aslıhan Güner as Gonca Kozcuoğlu
  • Dilara Deviren / Zeynep Çopur as Ceylan Kozcuoğlu
  • Necmettin Çobanoğlu as Ökkeş
  • Tülay Bursa as Fatma
  • Ayça Zeynep Aydın as Leyla Akbar
  • Şahnaz Çakıralp as Sarmaşık
  • Setenay Yener as Sevinç
  • İbrahim Bozgüney as Arif
  • Sibel Kasapoğlu as Young Asi
  • İdil Vural as Young Süheyla
  • Elif Sude Dorukoğlu as Elif
  • Eli Mango as Madam
  • Ezgi Çelik as İnci
  • Remzi Evren as Mahmut
  • Elvin Aydoğdu as Cevriye
  • Elif Sümbül Sert as Emine Doğan
  • Salahsun Hekimoğlu as Reha
  • Murat Çamur as Kaan
  • Birce Akalay as Zeynep

International broadcasting