Ateş Kuşları: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Most street children do not reach the age of twenty. It cannot be said that those who saw it lived. Drugs, violence, sexual harassment, hunger... The fate of street children is either prison or grave. Five of these children manage to resist this fate. Calling themselves "Rootless"; The Firebirds, the oldest of which is 13, the youngest is 6 years old, one girl and one autistic, five street children who find a forty-day-old baby in a garbage dump and tell how they turned from "Rootless" to "Firebirds"; will cover the stories of children resisting hardship, pain and fate against all odds.

Series details

• Title: Ateş Kuşları
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Turkish
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2023-01-13
• Final broadcast date listed: 2024-05-10
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ATV
• Network country: Turkey
• Typical episode runtime: 140 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 66385
• IMDb ID: tt21268616
• TVDB ID: 427016

Cast and credited roles

• İlayda Alişan — Gülayşe Ateş
• Hande Soral — Mercan Ateş
• Burak Tozkoparan — Barbaros
• Görkem Sevindik — Ali Ateş
• Erdem Sanli — Zıpkın Ateş
• Emir Çubukçu — Sabit Ateş
• Gonca Cilasun — Hacer
• Kaan Sevi — Cemal
• Almira Tuana Albay — Mercan Ateş (child)
• Fuat Fatih Odabaşı — Sabit Ateş (child)
• Berke Obuz — Zıpkın Ateş (child)
• Umut Ege Baştemur — Kara (child)

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2023-01-13; final listed air date 2023-06-23; episode order: 21.
• Season 2: premiered 2023-09-08; final listed air date 2024-05-10; episode order: 33.

Source and licence

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