Scripted series · TRT 1
Leyla and Mecnun
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ali Atay
Mecnun Çınar
144 eps
Serkan Keskin
İsmail Abi
144 eps
Ezgi Asaroğlu
Leyla Yılmaz
29 eps
Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan
İskender Çınar
144 eps
Cengiz Bozkurt
Erdal Bakkal
144 eps
Osman Sonant
Yavuz Hırsız
144 eps
Köksal Engür
Ak Sakallı Dede / Karabasan
144 eps
Nalan Kuruçim
Nurten Bakkal
144 eps
Zeynep Çamcı
Sedef Küçük
41 eps
Asuman Dabak
Pakize
24 eps
Müge Boz
Şirin Atasoy
41 eps
İştar Gökseven
Metin Yılmaz
144 eps
Melis Birkan
Leyla Yedinci
43 eps
Ayşe Selen
Sevim Yılmaz
61 eps
Ege Tanman
Kaan
144 eps
Mehmet Usta
Yedek Kamil
61 eps
Sebahat Adalar
Çiçekçi
144 eps
Mustafa Aşık
Melül
144 eps
Neslihan Aker
Gotik Leyla
104 eps
Onursal Yıldırım
Doktor
144 eps
İpek Türktan
Arzu
104 eps
Güliz Gençoğlu
Sema
144 eps
Atilla Şendil
Ömer Yedinci
43 eps
Kubilay Çamlıdağ
Kubilay
144 eps
Güler Ökten
Sedef'in Anneannesi
41 eps
Beste Bereket
Zeynep Ünlü
29 eps
Engin Günay
Az Sakallı Dede
104 eps
Sadi Celil Cengiz
Telat Abi
51 eps
Cihan Ercan
Hidayet Karaibrişimlioğlu
43 eps
Berk Sarıbay
Şirin'in Abisi
41 eps
Sarp Aydınoğlu
Benjamin
106 eps
Deniz Işın
Leyla Çevik
40 eps
Elifcan Ongurlar
Bahar
40 eps
Can Sarp İkiler
Berk Çetintaş
40 eps
Ushan Çakır
Arda Akdemir
29 eps
Açelya Devrim Yılhan
Eylül Şenel
59 eps
Bülent Baytar
Dostoyevski
63 eps
Çağrı Erdoğdu
Boomcu
10 eps
Kemal Başar
Hikmet Çevik
20 eps
Yunus Narin
Vedat
10 eps
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TV DNA
How Leyla and Mecnun actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Leyla and Mecnun reads strongest on Character Depth, Humour and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The story
What it's about
Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.
The run
Seasons
7 seasons · 144 episodes.
- Poster unavailableSpecials
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20113 episodes
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201120 episodes
7.9IMDbTwo babies born in the same hospital on the same day are placed side by side due to the lack of beds. The babies, who are betrothed in cradle beds after their families say "they found each other as soon as they were born", are named after the legendary lovers Leyla and Mecnun. 25 years pass. One morning, his family tells Mecnun about the situation and they go to ask for Leyla's hand in marriage. Although Mecnun is initially uncomfortable with this situation, he falls in love with Leyla as soon as he sees her. Not knowing what to do to impress her, Mecnun sees Grandfather with a white beard in his dream one night. Things get complicated when Grandfather with a white beard comes out of his dreams and starts living with Mecnun.
Best episode · S01E20 Hoşçakal
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
201141 episodes
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
201243 episodes
After a period of separation, Mecnun and his friends return to Kireçburnu. However, the neighborhood has changed a lot and Mecnun soon finds a new love.
Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
202110 episodes
Mecnun, lost in his own desert, returns to the neighborhood after 8 years. But the neighborhood is no longer the same. It is not just the neighborhood that has changed, there are no familiar faces in his house anymore and if he does not do something, their house will be lost to them. This time, Mecnun sets out saying, “I will set up this game!” and does his best to bring the neighborhood together. There is something he does not know, this struggle leaves him in the middle of his common fate with Leyla.
Season 5 · Complete
Season 5
202110 episodes
Season 6 · Complete
Season 6
202210 episodes
Season 7 · Complete
Season 7
202310 episodes
10.0IMDb
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Funda AlpProducer
Writing
- Burak AksakWriter
Direction
- Onur ÜnlüDirector
Cinematography
- Serdar ÜnlütürkDirector of Photography
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