| Director: | Çağrı Vila Lostuvalı (seasons 1 and 2) Osman Taşci (season 3) |
| Country: | Turkey |
| Language: | Turkish |
| Num Seasons: | 3 |
| Num Episodes: | 82 |
| Producer: | Hayri Aslan |
| Location: | Istanbul |
| Runtime: | 120-150 minutes |
| Company: | Limon Film |
| Related: | (movie) |
Poyraz Karayel is a Turkish drama television series that was broadcast on Kanal D from 2015 to 2017.[1] [2] It stars İlker Kaleli as Poyraz Karayel and Burçin Terzioğlu as Ayşegül Umman.
Poyraz meets Aysegul in a taxi and further in the episodes he falls in love with her. However he doesn't know that Aysegul is Bahri Umman's daughter, which although he finds out he decides not to tell Aysegul that he is working with her father. Further in season 1 Poyraz finds out that the chief police 'Mumtaz' has lied to him and that it was Mumtaz's fault that he got blamed of committing a crime. He then also finds out that the person that gave Mumtaz the command to pull Poyraz in this trap was his father in law Unsal. In the meantime Bahri Umman finds out that his daughter and Poyraz are together, which leads to chaos.
In the second season of Poyraz Karayel, Poyraz's sister Meltem Karayel is introduced. Further in the season Poyraz and the other characters find out that the man that they know as Poyraz's dad is actually his step father. Poyraz then finds out that his actual father is Adil Topal and that Adil Topal is Bahri Umman's enemy from 30 years ago. This then leads to Poyraz and the crew to get revenge from Adil Topal who dies soon in season 2. However the death of Adil Topal doesn't leave the Umman household with a happy end as after Adil Topal's son, Poyraz's half brother Neset Topal, replaces his fathers place and starts to sell drugs abroad. He also has psychological problems and has a onesided love towards Aysegul. The second seasons carries on with Poyraz and his crew to stop and kill Neset, which they finally do. However, not everything ends as they wish as at the end of season 2 Poyraz is shot dead.
Poyraz wasn't dead. He returns to Istanbul after being held hostage for two years by a terrorist group he had been investigating. He comes back right on the day of Aysegul's wedding. Things will take a strange turn, because both Poyraz and Aysegul feel like they have been betrayed by the other. After a series of arguments and confessions, the two of them reunite and Aysegul manages to get a divorce. They get engaged. Zulficar and Meltem eventually have three children, Aysegul is murdered by her former mother-in-law and Poyraz goes insane. Bahri dies a few months after Aysegul's death, leaving Sadretin as the head of the Istanbul mafia.
| Ahmet Poyraz Karayel | 1-82 | |
| Müzeyyen Ayşegül Umman Çilingir | 1-82 | |
| Bahri Umman | 1-82 | |
| Meltem Karayel | 25-82 | |
| Begüm Özbakan | 16- 62 | |
| Sadreddin Umman | 1-82 | |
| İsmail Karayel/Adil Topal | 28- 42 | |
| Sinan Karayel | 1-82 | |
| Sefer Kılıçaslan | 1- 46 | |
| Zülfikar Ülger | 1-82 | |
| Sema Koral | 1- 62 | |
| Mümtaz Tok | 1- 24/ 64-82 | |
| Songül Umman | 1-82 | |
| Taş Kafa | 1-82 | |
| Cevher Albay | 1-82 | |
| Ümran | 1-82 | |
| İsa | 1-82 | |
| Ufuk Kantar | 24- 32 | |
| Meltem Karayel | 26-82 | |
| Mete Durukan | 25-37 | |
| Actor/Actress | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Kirkor Dinçkayıkçı | İsmail Karagül | 1-24 |
| Zafer Biryol | 1-24 | |
| Oğuz Ayaz | 16-21 | |
| Necdet | 1-21 | |
| Bülent | 1-10 | |
| Kulaksız Adnan | 1-9 | |
| Serkan Vadar | 1-2 | |
| Gürkan | 1-2 | |
| Cemil | 1 | |
| Adil Topal | 40-50 | |
| Selçuk Erensoy | 36-49 | |
| Season | No. of episodes | Originally broadcast (Turkey) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series premiere | Series finale | ||||
| 1 | 24 | 7 January 2015 | 17 June 2015 | ||
| 2 | 38 | 30 September 2015 | 15 June 2016 | ||
| 3 | 20 | 12 October 2016 | 1 March 2017 | ||