''Merhamet'' (English: ''Compassion'') is a 2013

Turkish drama television series Turkish may refer to: * Something related to Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire * The w ...

, adapted from Hande Altaylı's novel ''Kahperengi''. It stars

Özgü Namal Melahat Özgü Namal (born 28 December 1978) is a Turkish people, Turkish actress. Biography Her maternal family are Turkish immigrants from Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire (now in Greece). Her paternal family are Turkish immigrants from North Mace ...

and

İbrahim Çelikkol İbrahim Çelikkol (born 14 February 1982) is a Turkish TV series and film actor, former player of The Turkey national under-20 basketball team and fashion model. Life and career His maternal family is of Turkish origin who immigrated from ...

. Set in 1996, it tells the story of Narin, who is a lawyer in

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Plot summary

Narin is a girl from a poor family with an abusive alcoholic father. Struggling against family pressure to quit school, she escapes to the big city. Through dedicated study she becomes a successful lawyer. She makes friends with a rich girl, Deniz, but faces difficulties when Firat, her first love, reappears in her life, engaged to Deniz's sister.

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as Narin yılmaz kazan *

as Fırat Kazan *

Burçin Terzioğlu Burçin Terzioğlu (born 9 March 1980) is a Turkish actress. Biography Her family works in the cinema industry. Terzioğlu began acting at the age of five as a child actress, appearing in 45 films and 16 television series until the age of t ...

as Deniz *

Mustafa Üstündağ Mustafa Üstündağ may refer to: * Mustafa Üstündağ (politician) * Mustafa Üstündağ (actor) {{hndis ...

as Sermet Karayel * Yasemin Allen as Irmak *Ahmet Rifat Şungar as Atif *Turgut Tunçalp *Ayşegül Cengiz Akman *Kosta Cortis *Gonca Cilasun *Aliye Uzunatağan

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