Diriliş: Ertuğrul-Resurrection: Ertuğrul

Diriliş: Ertuğrul translated as Resurrection: Ertuğrul

Diriliş: Ertuğrul, translated as Resurrection: Ertuğrul,is a Turkish historical fiction and adventure television series produced by Mehmet Bozdağ for TRT, starring Engin Altan Düzyatan as Ertuğrul Bey. The show is set in the 13th century and is based on the life of Ertuğrul, the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire.

The series was filmed in Riva, a village in the Beykoz district of Istanbul, Turkey, and premiered on TRT 1 in Turkey on 10 December 2014. The show aired for five seasons until 29 May 2019. It was written by Mehmet Bozdağ and directed by Metin Günay.

Netflix streamed the show internationally from 2016-17 through 2023.

The show has been well received in Turkey and other countries such as Pakistan and Azerbaijan, although several countries in the Arab world have banned the show and fatwas have been issued against it.The show has also been criticised for furthering a perceived political agenda for the government of Turkey.

Plot

Ertrugrul was a 13th-century Turkic Muslim nomad warrior from Central Asia.Surrounded by the Mongols to the east and the Crusaders and Byzantines to the west; like other Turkic tribes, Ertrugrul’s tribe too was pushed west by the Mongols.The Ertrugrul’s Turkmen did fight for a homeland, which was established by Ertrugrul’s son Osman as the Ottoman Empire. Ertrugrul TV serial attempts to show case a vivid imagination of a 13th-century Turkic Asian community and Muslim culture.

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