Yasak Elma

Yasak Elma
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Also known as	Forbidden Fruit
Genre	Drama Romance
Written by	Melis Civelek Zeynep Gür
Directed by	Neslihan Yeşilyurt (1–74) Murat Öztürk (75–110) Ece Erdek Koçoğlu (111–177)
Starring	Şevval Sam Eda Ece Biran Damla Yılmaz Murat Aygen Şebnem Dönmez Sevda Erginci Melisa Doğu
Theme music composer	Cem Tuncer Ercüment Orkut Efecan Tuncer
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language	Turkish
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	177
Production
Producer	Fatih Aksoy
Production locations	Istanbul Hatay
Cinematography	Erhan Makar (1-110) Hakan Dinçkuyucu (111-177)
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	110-150 minutes
Production company	Medyapım
Original release
Network	Fox Disney+
Release	March 19, 2018 (2018-03-19) – June 5, 2023 (2023-06-05)

Yasak Elma (English title: Forbidden Apple) is a Turkish television series created by Medyapım, featuring actors Şevval Sam and Eda Ece. The show was written by Melis Civelek and Zeynep Gür, with Neslihan Yeşilyurt directing the first three seasons, Murat Öztürk taking over for the fourth season, and Ece Erdek Koçoğlu directing the fifth and sixth seasons.

Plot

Season 1

Ender, a woman from the high society and wife of successful businessman Halit Argun, hires Yildiz Yilmaz as her husband's personal waitress. The latter is asked to seduce Halit so Ender can get finances after their divorce but Yildiz betrays Ender and exposes her plan. Halit divorces Ender upon learning the truth. She is left without money and begins her struggle to maintain her past position in society. Meanwhile, Yildiz and Halit get married.

Yildiz's sister Zeynep falls for her boss, Alihan Tasdemir.

Season 2

Ender's and Yildiz's enmity and intrigue continue. Yildiz's first husband, Kemal, now well off, returns with a plan to take revenge on Yildiz, because she divorced him on the wedding day as she had been accepted for an acting opportunity. As Kemal was poor, she left him for fame and money. Later, Kemal and Yildiz fall for each other and Kemal asks Yildiz to choose between him and Halit. Yildiz finds it difficult to leave the life she has because of Halit. Kemal marries Zehra Argun, Yildiz's stepdaughter and Halit's daughter from his first wife, which disappoints Yildiz. Later, she successfully sends him away.

Ender's first love Kaya and his sister, Sahika are introduced. Halit is impressed by Sahika and falls for her. Yildiz is pregnant at that time. Halit kicks her out of the house and she starts living in a village.

Ender and Kaya's son Yigit, of whom Ender and Kaya are both unaware because Kaya never knew of Ender's pregnancy and Ender had given him for adoption when he was born, starts working for Sahika. He pushes Ender into the sea.

Zeynep and Alihan get married and leave for America.

Season 3

Ender and Yildiz become friends against Sahika. Yildiz names her son Halitcan and divorces Halit. Yildiz falls for Kerim but they don't end up together. Yildiz experiments with new career options, doing a weather show on TV and starts a project of producing apple puree. It turns out Sahika is working for Nadir who is Halit's enemy and he also becomes a partner in the company.Later, Nadir did not want to hire Sahika and she decided to take revenge Sahika later kills him by poisoning.Ender marries Kaya they also have 23 years old son.

Season 4

Kaya divorced Ender. Halit marries Ender again. A few days later, Halit dies from a scuffle in his home with Yildyz Ender and Sahika Yildiz marries Cagatay, whose father HasanAli becomes a partner in the company. HasanAli kicks Ender and Sahika out of the company and they become poor. During this time they help each other. Later, they join the company back, Sahika marries HasanAli and later is killed by Cansu, a spy hired by Ender and Sahika. The season ends with a bomb blast in HasanAli's house where he is present along with Ender and Yildiz.

Season 5

Cagatay cheats on Yildiz with Kumru, a model and their neighbor. Yildiz is disheartened after she learns of this. She starts making her own shampoo and wins an award for it. At the ceremony she publicly disgraces Cagatay and Kumru. She divorces Cagatay and marries Doğan, Kumru's father, this is a paper marriage to teach a lesson to Kumru and Cagatay. Kumru leaves Cagatay on the wedding day when she learns he is with her to take revenge on Dogan. Handan, Dogan's ex-wife returns and manages to win her daughter Kumrus heart and becomes a partner in the company. Later, Cagatay teams up with Ekin, Kumrus husband and Dogan's enemy's son, against Dogan. The season ends with a car accident planned by Dogan to kill Cagatay in which Cagatay dies.

Season 6

Yıldız, upon learning Doğan's involvement in the car accident, complained against him and he was sent to prison. The season starts with a 2-year time lapse. Doğan and Yıldız's daughter Yıldızsu is born while Doğan is still in prison. Later, he is freed and him and Ender team up against Yıldız. Zeynep returns from the United States after divorcing Alihan and being married to someone else. She then marries Engin, Handan's poor turned rich brother. Kumru, Handan and Zeynep fall for doctor Selim, but he loves Kumru, so he stops his relation with Handan, her mom. After everything Kumru went through, Kumru is pretending that her name is Ezgi and lies about being poor because she wanted Selim to love her for being her, not because she’s rich. Dogan discovers his ex-wife Handan's relation with Selim, so he with Handan tries to stop Kumru & Selim's love. Kumru gets pregnant, but misunderstanding Selim's relation with Zeynep, she gets jealous and rejects his love, and she lies to everybody that Caner is the father of their child. Selim fights to regain Kumru but fails; he dies in a conflict with Dogan. Kumru and Caner get married. Dogan and Yildiz resolve their problems and get married.

At the end, Doğan dies while playing with Yildizsu, Asuman, Emir and Sedai get married, and Kumru has another baby.

Finally, Ender and Yildiz live happily and rich.

Cast

Main

Actor/Actress	Role	Episodes
Şevval Sam	Ender Çelebi	1-177
Eda Ece	Yıldız Yılmaz	1-177
Biran Damla Yılmaz	Kumru Yıldırım	111-177
Murat Aygen	Doğan Yıldırım	111-177
Sevda Erginci	Zeynep Yılmaz Gündüz	1-46,150-177
Şebnem Dönmez	Handan Kılıç	134-177
Berk Oktay	Çağatay Kuyucu	86-146
Barış Kılıç	Kaya Ekinci	37-85, 106-110
Nesrin Cavadzade	Şahika Ekinci	44-108
Talat Bulut	Halit Argun	1-85
Onur Tuna	Alihan Taşdemir	1-46

Supporting

Actor/Actress	Role	Episodes
Vildan Vatansever	Aysel	1-177
Barış Aytaç	Caner Çelebi	2-177
Serkan Rutkay Ayıköz	Emir Yüksel	3-177
Melisa Doğu	Asuman Yılmaz	8-177
Bahtiyar Memili	Sedai Yıldırım	86-177
Sonat Tokuç	Cemal	134-177
Emir Kaan Özkan	Halit Can Argun/Kuyucu 2	147-177
Güneş Ünlü	Yıldız Su Yıldırım	147-177
Utku Ateş	Ata	166-177

Departed characters

Actor/Actress	Role	Episodes
Nehir Erdoğan	Julia Moran	161-175
Sarp Ikiler	Aslan	163-172
Emre Kızılırmak	Selim Avcıoğlu	155-171
Elif Yılmaz	Tuğçe	161-171
Neriman Uğur	Sevim	162-167
Murat Onuk	Koray	162-166
Bekir Aksoy	Engin Kılıç	147-166
Pelin Orhuner	Selen	162-163
Ece Özdikici	Hilal	147-155
Kenan Acar	Altay	147-153
Ali Yasin Özegemen	Tarcan	147-152
Can Ceylan	Murat	141-148
Sena Yıldız	Gamze	131-146
Ceyhun Mengiroğlu	Ekin Önder	130-146
Kuzey Gezer	Halit Can Argun/Kuyucu 1	51-146
Soydan Soydas	Feedo	141-144
Erdal Bilingen	Çetin	111-141
Cansel Elçin	Cenk Akun	138-140
Ece Irtem	Meriç	129-135
Emre Dinler	Ömer Kurtoğlu	102-133
Nihan Aypolat	Arzu Kip	115-128
Ece Dizdar	Feyza Üstündağ	110-128
Gökhan Civan	Sami Önder	125-128
Yasmin Erbil	Canan	111-120
Hayati Akbaş	Hayati	93-110
Gülenay Kalkan Ünlüoğlu	Feride Taşkın	86-110
Erdal Özyağcılar	Hasan Ali Kuyucu	86-110
Gamze Atay	Güler	86-110
Barış Kılıç	Kaya Ekinci	37-85, 106-110
Şafak Pekdemir	Zehra Argun	1-110
Nilperi Şahinkaya	Cansu Yıldırım	93-108
Selin Uzal	Diana	105-107
Mert Altınışık	Mahmut Haznedar	86-102
Can Nergis	Mert Kara	74-100
Mehmet Pamukçu	Sıtkı	1-92
Ahmet Haktan Zavlak	Erim Argun 2	75-86
Buçe Buse Kahraman	Lila Argun 2	48-86
Gökhan Alkan	Kerim İncesu	72-85
Doğaç Yıldız	Yiğit Ekinci	42-85
Talat Bulut	Halit Argun	1-85
İlber Kaboğlu	Erim Argun 1	1-74
Mertkan Arat	Akin	49-74
Hakan Karahan	Nadir Kılıç	57-71
Tuvana Türkay	Ayşe/Leyla Çelebi	49-70
Nilgün Türksever	Zerrin Taşdemir	1-46, 64-67
Cavit Çetin Güler	Hilmi	54-56
Ege Kokenli	Yağmur	45-47
Ayşegül Çınar	Lila Argun 1	1-47
Ahmet Kayakesen	Hakan Kurtuluş 2	13-46
Erdem Kaynarca	Dündar Çelikkan	27-40
Tolga Sala	Kurban	27-40
Sarp Can Köroğlu	Atakan Kemal Karaca	15-37
Zeynep Bastık	İrem	23-33
Ebru Şahin	Hira Bozok	14-23
Gün Akıncı	Cem	10-21
Yeliz Şar	Defne	14-19
Kıvanç Kasabalı	Sinan Saygın	1-14
İrem Kahyaoğlu	Şengül Doğan	1-14
Tuğçe Koçak	Lal Uzun	1-13
Sinan Eroğlu	Hakan Kurtuluş 1	1-12

Broadcast schedule

Season no.	Airing day and time	Season premiere	Season finale	No. of episodes	Episode range	Year	Network
Season 1	Monday 20:00	19 March 2018	4 June 2018	12	1-12	2018	Fox
Season 2	Monday 20:00	10 September 2018	27 May 2019	35	13-47	2018-2019	Fox
Season 3	Monday 20:00	9 September 2019	23 March 2020	27	48-74	2019-2020	Fox
Season 4	Monday 20:00	7 September 2020	10 May 2021	36	75-110	2020-2021	Fox
Season 5	Monday 20:00	13 September 2021	13 June 2022	36	111-146	2021-2022	Fox
Season 6	Monday 20:00	19 September 2022	5 June 2023	31	147-177	2022-2023	Fox

External links

• Official website (in Turkish)