The Best TV Shows on Kanal D

Every Kanal D Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Showcasing over 20 shows from 1973 up until 2025, Kanal D stands as a beacon of television excellence. Leading the pack on Kanal D are Golden Butterfly Awards and Çocuklar Duymasın, with their initial broadcasts in 1973 and 2002. As of October 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of Kanal D’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • Family Secrets
    Family Secrets (2021)8.6

    A lawyer and a prosecutor, whose paths cross with a murder case, will have to work together to find the murderer, and this will create an irreversible breaking point in their lives.

  • A Woman Scorned
    A Woman Scorned (2020)8.1

    Asya is a successful doctor and she has a perfect life with her husband and her son. But after finding a blonde hair on her husband's scarf, everything changes and she discovers her husband's extramarital affair.

  • Price Of Passion
    Price Of Passion (2017)7.9

    Ferhat is a hitman working for his criminal uncle. Aslı is a young and idealistic doctor. One day, their roads crossed in the most unexpected way: Aslı is forced to operate on a man that Ferhat had shot.

  • Wounded Love
    Wounded Love (2016)7.8

    Azize finds herself with her 3 children and mother-in-law in a difficult fight. She raises her children while fighting the difficulties of the war period and her husband's absence whom she loves more than anything. It's about war, love, greed, treason and sacrifice.

  • Gumus
    Gumus (2005)7.6

    After the apparent death of his girlfriend, Mehmet Sadoglu is encouraged by his parents to marry Gümüs, a simple girl...

  • North South
    North South (2011)7.5

    Brothers, Kuzey and Guney, are poles apart in character and perception. Despite their differences, the brothers fall in love with the same girl, Cemre.

  • Far Away
    Far Away (2024)7.3

    Alya Albora arrives in Mardin with her late husband’s funeral and their five-year-old son to fulfill her husband’s last will. However, this arrival marks a point of no return, and there is no way out of Albora. The head of the Albora tribe, Cihan Albora, is not indifferent to Alya’s struggles, but he refuses to let her take her child and leave. Confronting the darkness of the past, hidden secrets, and the harsh realities of the region, Alya Albora finds herself caught in a fierce struggle with her late husband’s family.

  • Esref Ruya
    Esref Ruya (2025)7.3

    As a child, Eşref fell in love from afar with a girl he called “Rüya” and spent years searching for her, only to become a powerful mafia figure along the way. Meanwhile, Nisan, an idealistic musician, finds herself in grave danger after performing at a wedding held at Eşref’s hotel. Eşref falls for Nisan, unaware that she is both the long-lost Rüya he has been chasing for years and a police informant. Trapped in a whirlwind of love, betrayal, and power struggles, Eşref is forced into a brutal reckoning—both with his criminal empire and his own emotions.

  • One Thousand and One Nights
    One Thousand and One Nights (2006)7.0

    Sehrazat, a young widow who is financially unable to treat her terminally ill young son, is forced to address to her charming boss, asking for help. The proposal by her boss changes her life forever.

  • Geniş Aile
    Geniş Aile (2009)7.0

    Geniş Aile is a Turkish comedy television series on Kanal D, which initially broadcast in 2009. Season Finale on June 15, 2010 and was run 49 episodes - 1 season. Season 2 premiere aired on August 10, 2010.

  • Chrysalis
    Chrysalis (2021)6.9

  • Three Sisters
    Three Sisters (2022)6.8

    Once upon a time in a beautiful yet mysterious country, there lived three sisters named Türkan, Dönüş, and Derya. As a close-knit family, they would dream of a promising future every night. Perhaps such an upbringing, that was similar to a fairy tale on the pine-scented streets of Ayvalık, had not prepared them for the grim reality of adulthood. Over time, the sisters discover that life and the choices that are accompanied by it are not as easy as they seem. Inconceivable secrets can be hidden even by those who are trusted the most and horrific illnesses can lead to the resurrection of the past. This leads them to the question: Is there anything in the world that time cannot heal?

  • Forbidden Love
    Forbidden Love (2008)6.6

    Having lost his wife eleven years ago, Adnan devoted all his attention to his daughter Nihal and his son Bülent. Adnan, who lives in one of the most prominent mansions along the Bosporus in Istanbul with a relative's son Behlül, and his children's nanny, meets Bihter who is also a socialite couple's daughter she is very elegant and beautiful, everyone who meets her get stunned and jealous of her, and he falls in love with her. While searching for peace, safety and happiness in Adnan's mansion, Bihter meets passion. Behlül and Bihter fall completely into each other and become drowned by their infatuation with each other. Their secret love affair will soon affect every member of the family.

  • Valley of the Wolves: Ambush
    Valley of the Wolves: Ambush (2007)6.3

    A continuation series of Osman Sinav's The Wolves Of The Valley. This produce focuses on politics, National Security and Regional Middle East problems. The Wolves of The Valley: Ambush serie also attracts attention by two film; The Wolves of The Valley: Iraq and The Wolves of The Valley: Palestine.

  • Borders of Love
    Borders of Love (2004)6.0

  • Falling Leaves
    Falling Leaves (2006)6.0

    Yaprak Dökümü is an award-winning Turkish television series based on the novel of the same name by Reşat Nuri Güntekin. The series premiered on 13 September 2005 on Kanal D, and endеd its fifth and final season on 29 December 2010, comprising 174 episodes overall. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey, and it revolves around the fictional family Tekin, which their arrival in Istanbul tears their family apart, and transforms them in a way they can't imagine.

  • Back Streets
    Back Streets (2006)5.8

    The series tells the story of the family lives of the police officers working in a special team of the Istanbul Police Department's Public Security Department and their adventures on the streets of Istanbul. The team encounters different and diverse human stories during their missions. The Istanbul Police Chief Rıza Soylu (Zafer Ergin), with his years of experience and fatherhood, approaches these stories, which at times make them smile and at other times are heartbreaking, and guides the other young members of the team.

  • Daydreamers
    Daydreamers (2007)5.4

    “Daydreamers” is the story of four red-hot teenagers that are eager to grow up. Deniz, Aslı, Efe and Mine live in a beach town that is full of colorful people in the summer but deserted in the winter. Deniz wants to detach himself from his happy and dependable family and find his own way. Aslı tries to act tough but is very sensitive inside. Efe tries to hide his pain with his breezy and jokey attitude. And the couch grass, rebellious Mine… Intimate friendships, first loves, pressure of exams, school and family problems that are hard to overcome… Everything we went through as teenagers are all part of this series.

  • Çocuklar Duymasın
    Çocuklar Duymasın (2002)5.1

  • Golden Butterfly Awards
    Golden Butterfly Awards (1973)N/A