Asi (Turkish pronunciation: [aːˈsiː]) is a Turkish television drama series. The series originally aired from July 21, 2007, to June 15, 2009. It ran for two seasons on Kanal D.
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Premise
The series is set in a rural part of Antakya and revolves around the lives of Asi Kozcuoğlu (Tuba Büyüküstün), and Demir Doğan (Murat Yıldırım), and their respective families.
For three generations, the Kozcuoğlu family owns a prominent plantation in Antakya. Keeping this farm alive is their foremost goal. The owner, Ihsan Kozcuoğlu (Çetin Tekindor), and his daughter, Asi, work and live for their land. Years ago, Demir's mother, Emine (Elif Sümbül Sert), and aunt, Süheyla (Tülay Günal), were workers on the Kozcuoğlu farm until his mother drowned herself with her two kids Demir and Melek in the nearby river called Asi /Orontes (The modern name ‘Asi` means ("rebel"), because the river flows from the south to the north unlike the rest of the rivers in the region.). Her children survived, Demir and Melek, and they went on to live with their aunt Süheyla. Demir returns to his hometown as a rich businessman. Still embittered about the circumstances that drove his mother to her death, he meets Asi and is immediately drawn to her. However, the lives of the Kozcuoğlu family and Demir's family bear more connections from the past that constantly seem to get in between. Family secrets start unravel after Süheyla returns to be with her nephew Demir. Murder, death, affairs, and a love child is discovered as everyone's life is turned upside down when decade old secrets come to surface. Demir and Asi's love is tested to the limits as they struggle to hold to their affection while their world crumbles around them.
Cast
Main cast
Tuba Büyüküstün as Asiye "Asi" Kozcuoğlu
Murat Yıldırım as Demir Doğan
Çetin Tekindor as İhsan Kozcuoğlu
Nur Sürer as Neriman Kozcuoğlu
Tuncel Kurtiz as Cemal Ağa
Selma Ergeç as Defne Kozcuoğlu
Cemal Hünal as Kerim Akbar
Tülay Günal as Süheyla
Saygın Soysal as Aslan Kozcuoğlu
Elif Sönmez as Melek Doğan
Kanbolat Görkem Arslan as Ali Uygur
Emrah Elçiboga as Zafer Şermet
Menderes Samancilar as Haydar Doğan
Çağla Çakar as Asya Doğan-Kozcuoğlu
Supporting cast
Kenan Bal as Namık
Onur Saylak as Ziya
Aslıhan Güner as Gonca Kozcuoğlu
Dilara Deviren / Zeynep Çopur as Ceylan Kozcuoğlu
Necmettin Çobanoğlu as Ökkeş
Tülay Bursa as Fatma
Ayça Zeynep Aydın as Leyla Akbar
International broadcasting
Georgia on Maestro TV as Asi
Pakistan on Express Entertainment as Asi (2012-2014)
Northern Cyprus on Kanal D as Asi
Turkey on Kanal D as Asi
Somalia on Horn Cable Television as Caasi
Serbia on Prva as Asi
North Macedonia on TV Sitel as Asi
Kosovo on Kohavision as Asi
Croatia on Nova TV as Asi
Slovakia on TV Doma as Perla Orientu
Greece on ANT1 as Asi
Bulgaria on Kino Nova as Гордата Аси
Syria on MBC as "ASI"
Iran on MBC as "ASI"
Romania on Kanal D as "Asi — Împotriva destinului"
Morocco on 2M as "ASI"
Uzbekistan on Yoshlar TV as "Osiyo"
Ukraine on 1+1 as "Asi"