Çarpışma

*Çarpışma*
Çarpışma
Also known as	Crash
Genre	Action; Crime; Thriller
Written by	Ali Aydın
Directed by	Uluç Bayraktar (episodes 1–6, 10–24); Ahmet Katıksız (episodes 7–9); U. Hakan Eren (episodes 7–9)
Starring	Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ; Elçin Sangu; Onur Saylak; Melisa Aslı Pamuk; Alperen Duymaz
Theme music composer	Toygar Işıklı
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language	Turkish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	24
Production
Producers	Kerem Çatay; Pelin Diştaş
Running time	140 minutes
Production company	Ay Yapım
Original release
Network	Show TV
Release	November 22, 2018 –; May 30, 2019

Çarpışma (English title: Crash) is a Turkish action thriller television series starring Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Elçin Sangu, Onur Saylak, Melisa Aslı Pamuk and Alperen Duymaz. It was premiered on Show TV on November 22, 2018, and concluded on May 30, 2019.^[1]

Plot[edit]

Kadir Adalı is the Chief Commissioner of the Organized Crime Branch of the Istanbul Police Department. The moment he loses his wife and daughter in a terrorist act, his happy family life is destroyed. Feeling very sorry for what had happened and suffering from this loss, he decided to end his life. Without realizing it, he causes a catastrophe that changes the lives of four people. Four cars, four people, four lives, four destinies collide. In one of the cars is his childhood friend Zeynep, with whom he grew up in an orphanage and was about to be married, but he refused to do so because of his strong desire to work in the police as his father was a police officer who was killed during his duty. So, Kadir marries another friend from the orphanage, Aslı, instead. Zeynep then marries Galip Tunç and starts working as a bank manager and gives birth to a daughter named Aylin, but Galip owes a mob that kidnaps her daughter Aylin after Galip escapes from Turkey and asks Zeynep to pay her husband's debts. Slowly And for this reason, she robs the bank where she works. After her arrest, she asks Kadir for help to save her daughter. In another car is Zeynep's lawyer, Cemre Gür, the daughter of Veli's lawyer, Selim, who is engaged to Demir. One of them, Kerem, a powerful friend in the fourth car, stabbed him. The Kerem partner, Yakup, uses this recording to blacken Demir and Belma.

Cast[edit]

Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ as Kadir Adalı
Elçin Sangu as Zeynep Tunç
Onur Saylak as Veli Cevher
Melisa Aslı Pamuk as Cemre Gür
Alperen Duymaz as Kerem Korkmaz
Erkan Can as Haydar
Mustafa Uğurlu as Selim Gür
Rojda Demirer as Belma Gür
Merve Çağıran as Meral
Hakan Kurtaş as Demir
İsmail Demirci as Galip Tunç
Gonca Cilasun sa Serpil Korkmaz
Yıldırım Şimşek as Ömer Korkmaz
Furkan Kalabalık as Adem
Gökçen Çiftçi as Aylin Tunç
Efecan Şenolsun as Yakup
Buçe Buse Kahraman as Meltem
Sevtap Özaltun as Aslı Adalı
Merve Nil Güder as Deniz Adalı
Ayşe İrem İpek as young Zeynep
Kivanç Gedük as young Kadir
Ali Surmeli as Arif/Zarif/Cansiz, a sadistic, deranged serial killer, Kadir's biological father and the series' main antagonist.
Ivo Arakov as Ivan Sokurov

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
2019	Seoul International Drama Awards	Best Drama Series (Silver Award)	Çarpışma	Won
2019	Seoul International Drama Awards	Best Actor	Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ	Nominated

International broadcasts[edit]

Country	Network	Local title	Series premiere	Time slot
Chile	Mega TV	Colisión	January 2019
Uzbekistan	Yoshlar	To'qnashuv	February 23, 2019	19:30
Somalia	MCTV	Iskudhac Shil	March 28, 2019	20:00
Hungary	RTL Klub	Megtörve	June 10, 2019	19:55
Angola	Zap Novelas	Çarpışma	June 28, 2019	20:00
Algeria	الفجر	اصطدام	August 17, 2019	14:00
Albania	TV Klan	Ironia e Fatit	September 8, 2019	21:00
Saudi Arabia	MBC Action	اصطدام	September 22, 2019	21:00
Israel	Viva Plus	התרסקות	November 11, 2019	22:00
Jordan	Alordon Alyoom	الاصطدام	November 19, 2019	22:00
Georgia	Imedi TV	პირისპირ ქართულად	February 4, 2020	22:00
Iran	MBC Persia	تصادف	June 6, 2020	21:00
Bulgaria	bTV	Ирония на съдбата	June 29, 2020	21:00
United Arab Emirates	Zee Aflam	اصطدام	November 8, 2020	19:00
Lebanon	الجديد	حادث غرام	December 18, 2020	21:30
Romania	Kanal D	La răscruce	January 21, 2021	23:30
Saudi Arabia	Fox Arabia Fox Crime FX	Crash (اصطدام)	August 15, 2021	21:00
Kyrgyzstan	ЭлТР	Кагылышуу	September 1, 2021	22:05
South Africa	eExtra	Impak!	January 9, 2022	19:30
Ecuador	Teleamazonas	Crash	February 22, 2022	23:00
Malaysia	TV2	Crash aka Çarpışma	May 3, 2022	17:00
Saudi Arabia	MBC 4 MBC Action	اصطدام	May 8, 2022	22:00 23:00
Argentina	Telefe	Caminos Cruzados
Egypt	Mix One	اصطدام	May 7, 2023	19:00

References[edit]

^ ""ÇARPIŞMA" 22 KASIM'DA SHOW TV'DE!" ["ÇARPIŞMA" IS ON SHOW TV ON 22 NOVEMBER!]. Kivanc Tatlitug (in Turkish). October 11, 2018. Archived from the original on October 18, 2018. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
- "Show TV'nin yeni dizisi Çarpışma reytinglerde ne yaptı?" [What did Show TV's new series Çarpışm do in the ratings?]. Gazeteciler (in Turkish). August 26, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2019.

External links[edit]

Official website (in Turkish)
Çarpışma at IMDb

[1] ""ÇARPIŞMA" 22 KASIM'DA SHOW TV'DE!" ["ÇARPIŞMA" IS ON SHOW TV ON 22 NOVEMBER!]. Kivanc Tatlitug (in Turkish). October 11, 2018. Archived from the original on October 18, 2018. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
- "Show TV'nin yeni dizisi Çarpışma reytinglerde ne yaptı?" [What did Show TV's new series Çarpışm do in the ratings?]. Gazeteciler (in Turkish). August 26, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2019.

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