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From Hatırla Sevgili to Magnificent Century, Okan Yalabık has played many memorable characters on Turkish screens. This time it is his latest look that is getting noticed. A photo of the actor from Netflix's 10th anniversary celebration in Turkey has put today's Okan Yalabık side by side with Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, the character he played years ago.

She topped the Turkish charts with 'Ya Sen Ya Hiç' and left a whole generation with the memory of her stage style. Now Bendeniz is back in the conversation. These days the 53-year-old singer is known less for new albums than for her concerts, and fans of '90s nostalgia are once again talking about the 'Lampshade Girl' and her new chapter on stage.

Tefo, who joined the story of NOW's series Yeraltı in its second season, is among the characters viewers are most curious about. The character, whose real name is Tevfik, is played by veteran actor Bora Sivri.Here is who Bora Sivri is, where he comes from and which productions he has appeared in.

Merve Boluğur, the actress many viewers know as Nurbanu Sultan from Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Magnificent Century), is making news with a plan abroad. Merve Boluğur has started the process of getting a Golden Visa from Greece and says she will travel there soon to complete it.

Turkish dramas had a hard Wednesday night on November 4. Fenerbahçe's UEFA Champions League match against Liverpool, shown live on TRT 1, finished first on all three ratings lists, and Yeraltı, which set its season high a week earlier, fell behind its rival Sevdan Bir Ateş.

Turkish singer Sinan Özen's trip home to Istanbul after a concert in Tokat ended with a scare: the car he was traveling in was involved in a crash on the highway. The first word on his condition came from his brother Hızır Özen, who was in the same car.

For a generation of Turkish viewers, Sezer Güvenirgil is Şehriye Hanım, the mother of Zeliş in the late-1990s TV series Bücür Cadı, remembered for her embroidered headscarf, fringe and dark hair. Recent images of the 77-year-old actress have put her back on the entertainment agenda, because many people who see them find it hard to believe she is the same woman. The attention has also renewed interest in a career that started in the Yeşilçam era of Turkish cinema.Source: Sabah

Prime Video's new series Grand Maison İstanbul, adapted from the Japanese production Grand Maison Tokyo, has its female lead, according to a report by Birsen Altuntaş: Demet Özdemir will play Defne opposite Kerem Bürsin's chef Ateş. Filming for the DASS Yapım series is planned to begin in December.

Actor Şükrü Özyıldız was the guest on the second episode of Kişisel Dönüşüm Mutfağı, Aret Vartanyan's show on YouTube. When the talk turned back to an interview he gave in 2012, the subject became second chances, and Şükrü Özyıldız answered by separating a mistake from a wrong.

Büşra Develi, who plays Çiğdem in Eşref Rüya, was asked whether she will appear in Eşref Tek, the new series being prepared for Prime Video. Her answer: 'Nobody from Eşref Rüya will be in the new series.' Producer Timur Savcı, however, had earlier said that Çağatay Ulusoy will again play Eşref and Görkem Sevindik will again play Kadir.

Cinemas in Türkiye closed October with 1,675,955 admissions and 489.97 million Turkish lira in revenue, according to Box Office Türkiye. Admissions were up 17.1% on the same month last year, and the film behind that rise is Gupi ve Gülmeyen Kral, the Turkish animated feature written by Gupse Özay, who also voices its lead character. In only nine days on release, it drew one in every five people who went to the cinema in October.

The ratings for Tuesday, November 3 are in, and there were no new drama episodes on Turkish prime time that night. TRT 1 aired the Galatasaray-Stuttgart match in place of Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı, while rival channels ran reruns of Tuzlu Kahve, Anne Yarısı and Haysiyet.

Burç Kümbetlioğlu, who played Boran in the Turkish series Uzak Şehir, has named the most unforgettable moment from the set. The actor, who left the show with the Season 2 finale, said the crew was stranded on set for 6 hours when snow fell in Mardin. The story adds a behind-the-scenes note to the snowy Midyat photos the cast shared last winter.

Sevdam Karadeniz, the NOW series given an early finale, said goodbye to viewers with its fourth episode on Monday, November 2. Meltem Akçöl, who plays Zeyşan, marked the final night with an emotional farewell post on Instagram, writing about her sadness over how short the journey had been.

Cevher, the new Show TV series that made headlines with a string of departures before reaching the screen, has moved a step closer to filming. Its cast, led by Elçin Sangu and Ertan Saban, sat down together for a table read before going in front of the cameras, and news of the session also brought the names of the wider cast to light.