Endless Love (2015 TV series)

Blind Love (Turkish: Kara Sevda, literally Dark Love) is a Turkish drama series/telenovela produced by Ay Yapım that premiered on Star TV on October 14, 2015. The first season consists of 35 episodes and the season finale aired on June 15, 2016. The second season premiered on September 21, 2016.^[1] It consists of 39 episodes and the finale aired on June 21, 2017.

Plot

Kemal (Burak Özçivit) is a young man who lives in a working-class neighborhood in Istanbul. His father Hüseyin (Orhan Güner) is a barber, and his mother Fehime is a housewife. He has two siblings, an older brother, Tarik (Rüzgar Aksoy), who is jealous of Kemal, and a younger sister called Zeynep (Hazal Filiz Küçükköse).

Nihan (Neslihan Atagül Doğulu) is a rich young woman, has a twin brother Ozan and lives with her parents Vildan and Önder. Emir Kozcuoglu (Kaan Urgancloğlu)is an arrogant businessman who holds an great love for Nihan.

Emir raised without his mother because she was in coma since he was 5 years old.

Önder's business is slowly coming to an end. Vildan, unable to give up her rich life, wants Nihan to marry Emir to save the family business, but Nihan refuses as she dislikes Emir's arrogance and protectiveness of her. The first meeting between Nihan and Kemal occurs on the bus, and a month later, Kemal saves Nihan's life and from then on their friendship starts and slowly turns in to love.

Emir is aware of Nihan's love, so he executes a plan that results in Ozan killing a girl. Nihan is then left helpless to marry Emir to save Ozan from going to jail. The next day, Kemal proposes to Nihan but she refuses and leaves in tears. Kemal was deeply hurt by Nihan's refusal and struggles to move on, so to start afresh, he moves to Zonguldak.

Four years later, there was an accident in the mine where he worked. Kemal saved the life of his manager Hakki, who promoted him to be his assistant.

One year later, Kemal comes back to Istanbul to secure a business deal with Emir's company. Kemal's dislike of Emir's arrogance and dislike of Kemal's self-righteousness leaves them both wary of each other. Nihan struggles to control her feelings for Kemal with his return and is constantly in tears. During this time Asu Alachan (Melisa Aslı Pamuk) Kemal's business partner moves to Istanbul because of her love for Kemal.

Asu Alachan raised with her uncle Hakki Amja without parents or siblings .

Emir grows suspicious of Nihan's and Kemal's relationship while Asu has already worked out Nihan was the girl that broke Kemal's heart. Emir uses Tariq's jealousy towards Kemal's success to turn him further away from Kemal. Ozan is in love with Zeynep. When Zeynep and Ozan's family find out about their relationship they are stopped from seeing each other, Ozan struggles to forget Zeynep and follows her constantly. During this time it's also revealed that Kemal's best friend Salih is in love with Zeynep, Zeynep reveals she doesn't feel the same way about Salih.

Kemal soon realizes Nihan is unhappy in her marriage and is being forced to maintain it. Kemal tries to work out the reason behind Nihan's marriage to Emir and in the process, Nihan and Kemal both unknowingly start to rekindle their old romance. Kemal is close to discovering the truth, but Nihan is fearful Ozan may go jail if Kemal finds out, so she asks him to stop the romance. Kemal is hurt that Nihan is unable to trust him, so he distances himself once again from her.

After breaking Salih and Ozan's heart Zeynep finds herself in the arms of Emir Kozcuoglu. Soon enough Zeynep and Emir sleep together in a hotel Emir then throws her out the room and reveals this was all a ploy to hurt Kemal. Zeynep is left traumatised at first but then plans her revenge against Emir. She fools Ozan into believing that she loves him and becomes the daughter in law of Emir's household, leaving both Kemal and Nihan's families shocked.

Kemal finally discovers the truth behind Nihans compulsion to stay married to Emir. Kemal however grows suspicious of the situation and along with Nihan tries to work out whether Ozan really killed a girl or if it was all set up by Emir. Throughout this time is Emir is being blackmailed by an unknown person who has video evidence of Ozan murdering that girl, Kemal also discovers and informs Emir that he has a sibling, a brother.

Nihan and Kemal decide to run away together and Ozan is persuaded to turn himself in to the police for his crime. Zeynep who is still in love with Emir reveals Nihan and Kemal's location to Emir. Emir arrives and threatens Nihan if she does not leave immediately him he will tell his shooter who has his gun aimed at Kemal to kill Kemal. When Kemal returns Nihan tells him it's over between them and leaves with Emir. Kemal returns to his life in Istanbul and decides to marry Asu.

After a series of events it's revealed that Emir's sibling is Asu and the blackmailer his assistant Tufan. Emir’s mother Mojgan ran away from their house when she was pregnant with asu , then she kept Asu with Hakki and came back to take Emir but her husband Ghalip ( Emir’s Father) thought she cheated him so he threw her from a high window then she became in coma . Hakki Alachan raised Asu to take her mother’s revenge from Ghalip and teach her to take her revenge also from his brother Emir .

Asu fears Emir will kill her after finding out the truth. Emir secretly witnesses Kemals proposal to Asu decides to team up with Asu to separate Kemal and Nihan forever rather than killing her.

Emir and asu discovered that Hakki Alachan was playing with their futures so they decided to be friends not enemies.

At Kemal and Asus engagement Nihan faints after the rings are exchanged. Ozan who is currently out on bail gets caught by the police in a failed attempt to escape with Zeynep, Ozan gets arrested and put in jail. While in jail Ozan he is anonymously sent intimate pictures of Zeynep and Emir after threatening Zeynep he is sent to hospital having suffered food poisoning. In hospital the scene ends with Ozan being surprised as someone walks in to his hospital room. In the next scene we see Ozan having hanged himself in his room. His father Onder unable to cope with Ozans death has a heart attack and dies shortly after Ozan. Nihan at this time is with the doctor and find out she is pregnant with Kemals child. Kemal at this time finds out about Zeynep and Emirs affiar, he walks over to Emirs house and Emir pulls a gun out on Kemal. They both get into a fight and the gun goes off, Emir is shot in the leg. Kemal instantly calls the police admitting to shooting Emir and walks out of Emirs house. While stood outside Emirs house Kemals sees Nihan walking towards him. Nihan is lost in thought about how she's going to tell Kemal she's pregnant when she gets a call telling her Ozan committed suicide. Kemal angry at Nihan for not telling him about Emir and Zeynep taunts Nihan. Nihan falls to the floor and begins screaming, she runs to Kemal and accuses him of killing her brother, Kemal is left shocked and Zeynep witnessing this from behind starts crying and screaming. Zeynep tries to run away but in the process loses her baby and returns to her maternal home.

The season ends with Emir in hospital fighting for his life, Kemal going to jail for attempted murder of Emir and Nihan leaving Istanbul to raise her child away from everyone.

Start of season 2

It starts with Emir coming out of hospital in a wheelchair as his leg is now paralysed, Nihan is living in another country and Kemal comes back from jail. Shortly after coming out of hospital Emir stages a kidnap of Deniz, Nihan's daughter. Nihan goes to Kemal for help but dismisses her plea without even listening to it, helpless Nihan has no choice but to go back to Emir. Kemal starts planning his wedding with Asu while Nihan goes back to playing happy families with Emir.

Emir kozcuoglu and Asu kozcuoglu started to be real siblings specially when they knew that their mother is in her way to wake up from her long coma , they decided to help each other to save their marriage and they family kozcuoglu.

This story ended with fair ending .

Note: Season 2 is the final season of the show. It ends with a TBA event.

Cast and characters

Awards and nominations

The prevalence

• The series has been sold to more than 74 countries.
• The series is translated into more than 50 languages.
• The first Turkish series won the International Emmy Award, one of the most important awards in the world.
• The first Turkish series that reached 1 million subscribers on YouTube platform.

International broadcasting

Kara Sevda gained a lot of popularity internationally and it has been dubbed in multiple languages including Italian, Persian, Spanish, and Arabic. It received a high rating in Turkic countries (especially Azerbaijan), Iran (especially Iranian Azerbaijan), Arab countries, Southeastern Europe, Latin America. It was aired as Okeea in Iran by the Gem TV due to the commercial purposes.

Country	Network	Local title	Series premiere	Timeslot
Morocco	2M TV	حب أعمى	March 12, 2018	18:30
Kosovo	RTV 21	Kara Sevda	April 7, 2016	20:00
Albania	Jolly HD	Dashuri e pafund	May 26, 2016	21:00
Greece	Mega TV	Kara Sevda	June 12, 2016	17:50
	Skai TV		July 15, 2018 (season 2)	17:30
Colombia [3]	Caracol Televisión	Kara Sevda: Amor Eterno	October 18, 2016	17:30
Mexico	Imagen Televisión	Amor Eterno	October 18, 2016	18:00
Hungary	Duna TV	Végtelen szerelem	November 24, 2016	18:35
Serbia	RTV Pink	Beskrajna ljubav	January 9, 2017	20:00 / 21:00
Montenegro	Pink M	Beskrajna ljubav	January 9, 2017	20:00
Iran	GEM TV	Okeea	January, 2017	22:00
Lithuania	LNK	Amžina meilė	February 17, 2017	15:30
United Arab Emirates	OSN Yahala	الحب الأعمى	March 15, 2017
Romania	Kanal D	Dragoste infinită	March 20, 2017	20:00
Slovakia	TV Doma	Nekonečná láska	April 3, 2017	20:30
Indonesia	TV One	Endless love	April 15, 2017	11:00 10:00
Chile	Mega	Sevda: Amor Robado	April 20, 2017	17:30
Croatia	Nova TV	Bit ćeš moja	June 12, 2017	21:30
Iraq	Kurdmax TV	ئه‌شقی شێتانه‌	July 20, 2016	20:00
Afghanistan	Tolo TV	Nihan	July 26, 2017	20:00
Ukraine	1+1	Нескінченне кохання	August 28, 2017	17:10
Uzbekistan	Zo'r TV	Sevgi iztirobi	August 30, 2017	20:00
Bulgaria	Bulsatcom Diema Family	Черна любов	September 25, 2017 November 20, 2017	21:00
Slovenia	POP TV	Moja boš	January 3, 2018, April 16, 2018 April 17, 2018	20.00/21.00
Macedonia	Sitel TV	Карасевда	January 31, 2018	22:10
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hayat TV Alternativna televizija	Beskrajna ljubav	February 1, 2018	16:00 20:00
South Korea	TBA	Blind Love	TBA	TBA
Lebanon	New TV	Lhob L’aama	September 24, 2018	18:50
Poland	TVP 1	Wieczna Miłość	August 24, 2018	16:05

References

External links

• Official website (in Turkish)