Muhteşem Yüzyıl

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said late on Dec. 11 the tomb of Süleyman Şah, the grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, would be returned to its previous location in Syria.

Turkey plans to increase its revenue from the export of Turkish series and soap operas worldwide to $2 billion by 2023, Metin Tunçtürk, the chairman of the professional body of film producers, FIYAB, has said.

"The Turkish drama sector is open to the world and is set to become a locomotive for an economic, cultural and global national breakthrough," Tunçtürk said.

Bangladeshi actors and directors called for a ban Dec. 12 on the steamy Turkish period drama Sultan Süleyman (The Magnificent Century), saying the show's "rampant sex" was destroying the local TV industry and fueling divorce.

An interesting memorial ceremony was held on Sept. 7 in the Hungarian city of Szigetvar with the participation of Turkish, Hungarian and Croatian officials, as well as thousands of visitors.The Ottomans seized Szigetvar Castle 450 years ago on Sept.

Turkey's TV series sector plans to increase its annual export volume to $1 billion in 2023 from around $350 million by adding new regions such as South Asia and East Asia to its export markets. 

An exhibition, organized by the Istanbul Entertainment Group and Dubai sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktum's company Meraas and inspired by popular Turkish TV series "Magnificient Century," has opened in Dubai CityWalk. 

The Turkish drama sector, which has steadily attracted fans across the world in recent years, exported series worth $250 million in 2015. 

Erospolis has had enough of Ottomaniacs who confuse fact and fiction, as well as the elitist historians who are only too eager to scan Ottoman soap operas to take umbrage with the details"How dare Hollywood portray Anne Boleyn, the brave and intelligent mother of Elizabeth I, as a hysterical slut who slept with her brother?" said Queen Elizabeth II.

Meryem Uzerli, "Hürrem" in Turkey’s globally popular TV drama “Muhteşem Yüzyıl” (The Magnificent Century) returned to Germany last year after ending her relationship with the father of her then-unborn daughter, Lara.

Meryem Uzerli, better known as Hürrem Sultan in the popular Turkish TV series “The Magnificent Century” (Muhteşem Yüzyıl) has returned to Turkey, after signing a contract with O3, the Turkish production company of the biggest TV channel of the Arab world, MBC.