İçerde

İçerde
Written by	Ertan Kurtalan Toprak Karaoğlu
Directed by	Uluç Bayraktar
Starring	Çağatay Ulusoy Aras Bulut İynemli Arda Uçan Çetin Tekindor Ugur Yucel Bensu Soral Damla Colbay
Composer	Toygar Işıklı
Country of origin	Template:TR
Original language	Turkish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	39
Production
Producer	Kerem Çatay
Running time	120 minutes
Production company	Ay Yapım
Original release
Network	Show TV
Release	19 September 2016 (2016-09-19) – 19 June 2017 (2017-06-19)

İçerde (English: The Insiders) is a Turkish TV series produced by Ay Yapım. The series first aired on 19 September 2016 on Show TV. Both lead actors Çağatay Ulusoy and Aras Bulut İynemli received positive feedback for their acting.

Plot

The series follows the story of two brothers, Sarp (Çağatay Ulusoy) and Umut Yılmaz (Aras Bulut İynemli), who were separated during their childhood and end up on opposite sides of the law.

Umut and Sarp's father, Metin, works as an assassin for one of the most powerful mafia leaders in Istanbul, Celal Duman (Çetin Tekindor). When Metin is arrested and imprisoned, Celal kidnaps three year old Umut in order to make sure that Metin will not betray him. Sarp and his mother Füsun (Nihal Koldaş) never learn the truth about Umut's disappearance, as Metin dies in prison without revealing anything. They both think Umut is dead after the police brings them his blood-stained t-shirt, and Sarp grows up blaming himself for what happened to his brother and being constantly haunted by his loss.

Years later, Sarp is expelled from the police academy a week before graduation by his commander, Yusuf Kaya (Mustafa Uğurlu). At the graduation ceremony, he attacks Yusuf and is sent to prison for a year. It is subsequently revealed that Sarp and Yusuf planned everything in order for Sarp to infiltrate Celal’s group as an undercover cop and help arresting him. Sarp is even more determined to take down Celal after finding out that he was responsible for Umut's disappearance. Things take an unexpected turn when Sarp finds himself falling in love with Melek Yıldız (Bensu Soral), Celal's protégé and lawyer, who, unbeknownst to him, is very close friends with his own brother.

Umut, renamed Mert Karadağ, doesn’t remember anything about his family and is loyal to Celal, believing that he saved him and Melek from the abuse they had to endure on the streets. He becomes a cop, and is subsequently accepted into Yusuf's team, where he acts as a spy for Celal. After he falls in love with Eylem Aydın (Damla Colbay), Sarp's childhood friend, his loyalty for Celal is repeatedly tested to the point that he is starting to have doubts about his actions. Mert develops a close relationship with his own mother, Füsun, and a fierce rivalry with Sarp, completely unaware that they are his true family.

Characters

• Çağatay Ulusoy as Sarp Yılmaz:

A former convict who becomes part of Celal's inner group, following in his father's footsteps, he is in fact working as an undercover cop for commander Yusuf Kaya in order to arrest Celal Duman, whom he blames for the imprisonment and death of his father and for the disappearance of his younger brother Umut, which deeply affected him. Sarp has a strong sense of justice and is very intelligent and skilled, managing to gain Celal's trust and constantly avoiding being exposed as a cop. He falls in love with Melek, Celal's daughter, and finds himself repeatedly at odds with Mert Karadağ, who is, unbeknownst to him, his long lost brother Umut.

• Aras Bulut İynemli as Mert Karadağ / Umut Yılmaz:

A corrupt cop in Yusuf Kaya's team, who works secretly as an informant for Celal Duman. Mert grew up on the streets, where he was forced to sell napkins and suffered constant physical abuse. He is unaware that Celal, the man who adopted him and whom he considers his father, is also the man who kidnapped him and sent him on streets. Due to the trauma he suffered as a child, he trusts few people and has no friends except Melek, whom he loves as a sister. He is very confident in his abilities to the point of arrogance, and manages to save Celal from prison more than once during the series. He falls in love with Eylem Aydın, Sarp's childhood friend, and gets close to Füsun Yılmaz, his real mother, which eventually makes him having serious doubts about his actions.

• Çetin Tekindor as Celal Duman:

The leader of a powerful mafia group in Istanbul, Celal has always managed to avoid prison due to the deep loyalty of his people, in spite of the multiple crimes he has committed, such as Umut's kidnapping and the murder of Melek's mother. Celal is highly manipulative and a very good liar, being capable to instill in both Umut and Melek a deep devotion towards him. He considers Sarp one of his most trusted men, without realizing that he is an undercover cop.

• Mustafa Uğurlu as Yusuf Kaya
• Nihal Koldaş as Füsun Yılmaz
• Bensu Soral as Melek Yıldız
• Damla Colbay as Eylem Aydın
• Yıldıray Şahinler as Hasan Alyanak
• Rıza Kocaoğlu as Davut
• Gözde Kansu as Yeşim Duman
• Uğur Yücel as Kudret Sönmez

Director

• 2016-2017 | Elçin Rehimov

International Broadcast

After the success of the Series in Turkey and Azerbaijan, now it had been picked up by an additional eleven countries. Channels in Georgia, Korea, Greece, Romania, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Albania, Pakistan, Chile, Bulgaria and Malaysia have signed the deals for the telecast of ratings smash hit.