Global Agency Showcases Gulperi

At an exclusive event at Château de la Napoule, Global Agency introduced international buyers to Gulperi, with lead actors Nurgül Yeşilçay and Timuçin Esen on hand to talk about the new Turkish drama from Tims&B Productions.

“This is a story about women in Turkey,” said Yeşilçay—who previously appeared in such hits as Broken Pieces and Magnificent Century Kosem—about the Show TV series. “It’s also a story about women all over the world.”

For Esen, the drama is also about “the sacrifices a man will make for his family. Ignoring his own needs and working for the family and his own wife and child. Sometimes something happens and you wake up and realize what you’ve been missing in terms of living a full life. I wanted to focus on that, this awakening for this male character, realizing that there are other things in life he could be doing.”

On the increasing sales of Turkish drama series abroad, Yeşilçay told World Screen, “In Turkey, we import a lot of things, so it’s such a great honor to be able to export our series all over the world. It’s a great addition to our economy. With Magnificent Century Kosem last year we won the export award, which was a privilege. So I’m very happy for everyone working in the Turkish drama industry.”

She continued, “When you do something like this and contribute to the greater picture, it really makes us very happy. And if we’re able to touch people from all over the world with the stories we tell and make them feel certain things, it’s very satisfying for us.”

Esen added that Turkish dramas “are starting to replace the Latin American soap operas” in many countries. “The series we are producing are simple and easy to follow, they are concentrated on a couple of universal themes [like] love and revenge. As we do it more and more, we’re getting better at it. I hope Turkey will start to also export these TV productions not just to a narrow geography but also to other parts of the world, maybe Western Europe.”