Iffet: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Story of love, passion and revenge... The young and beautiful Iffet lives with her father and younger sister in one of the older and more modest neighbourhoods of Istanbul. She is deeply in love with Cemil, a taxi driver at the local taxi station. Iffet dreams about the day when Cemil will propose to her. In fact, Cemil does not want to marry Iffet yet as he has bigger plans. One day he will be rich, so rich that he can leave the middle-class neighbourhood and live an exotic life elsewhere. As Iffet continues her clandestine relationship with Cemil, he starts pushing her about sharing her bed before they marry and one unfortunate day, during the wedding of Iffet's best friend Serpil, drunk and out of control; he first comes on strong to Iffet and then rapes her. Iffet tries to get over the trauma. Cemil begs for her forgiveness and promises to marry her. Iffet feels slightly relieved; thinking this marriage will save her honor because she has discovered she is pregnant. Meanwhile, Cemil is forced into marry the daughter of the owner of the taxi station. Iffet swears to take her revenge and this time destiny helps her. Ali Ihsan, a powerful and wealthy businessman falls in love with her and they get married. Iffet is now a rich woman who can have anything she wants in life. Cemil is tremendously affected by Iffet´s marriage; he has decided to do whatever it takes to get her back. Iffet will have to resist the temptation...

Series details

• Title: Iffet
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Turkish
• Genres: Drama, Romance
• Premiere date: 2011-09-17
• Final broadcast date listed: 2012-09-24
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Star TV
• Network country: Turkey
• Typical episode runtime: 90 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 55287
• IMDb ID: tt2509222
• TVDB ID: 317427

Cast and credited roles

• Deniz Çakır — İffet
• İbrahim Çelikkol — Cemil
• Melike Güner — Betül
• Ayşe Tunaboylu — Saime
• Selim Erdoğan — Erhan
• Esra İşgüzar — Nimet
• Selen Uçer — Gülin
• Ecem Özkaya — Nil
• Birsen Dürülü — Asuman
• Serkan Genç — Feyyaz
• Gülden Güney — Serpil
• Asu Maralman — Feride Teyze

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2011-09-17; final listed air date 2012-06-16.
• Season 2: premiered 2012-08-27; final listed air date 2012-09-24.

Source and licence

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