The Best TV Shows on Kanal D

Every Kanal D Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 2002 through to 2025, Kanal D has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Highlighting Kanal D’s quality programming, Çocuklar Duymasın and Gumus stand out, premiering in 2002 and 2005. Our curated list, current as of June 2025, showcases over 20 of Kanal D’s highest-rated series.

  • Esref Ruya
    Esref Ruya (2025)9.0

    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.

  • Ihlamurlar Altinda
    Ihlamurlar Altinda (2005)8.9

  • Love & Hope
    Love & Hope (2022)8.5

    Because of Gönül, Bülent and Feraye broke up, Bülent left home. Ege and Melis got married and moved in with Feraye, who was left alone. Zeynep buried her love in her heart and started a new life. The paths of Zeynep and Ege, who still love each other like crazy, separated due to Melis's pregnancy with Ege, will reunite with a painful loss. While all this is happening, Cihan, a young and strong man, enters Zeynep's life. Cihan is Seda's older brother. However, Cihan's powerful secret will not be able to stop his love. Although this secret brings Cihan and Ege face to face, the only thing the two men have in common is their love for Zeynep. Sıla was kidnapped by a fierce enemy of Kuzey. Kuzey has just realized his love for Sıla and searches for her everywhere. However, Cavidan, who is absolutely against Sıla and Kuzey coming together, will try to separate the two of them by using Alper. Cavidan's real plan is to marry Kuzey to her own daughter Bahar.

  • Family Secrets
    Family Secrets (2021)8.4

    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.

  • Fatmagul
    Fatmagul (2010)8.0

    Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? is a Turkish television drama series produced by Ay Yapım and broadcast on Kanal D. The series is based on Vedat Türkali's novel, Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?, which was made into a film in 1986. The series is written by duo Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu. The soundtrack was done by Toygar Işıklı.

  • A Woman Scorned
    A Woman Scorned (2020)8.0

    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.

  • Far Away
    Far Away (2024)8.0

    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.

  • Wounded Love
    Wounded Love (2016)7.9

    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...

  • If You Love
    If You Love (2023)7.5

    Leyla is a resilient orphan with an intense spirit who joins a team of con men to fund the search for her long-lost parents. When she first meets Ateş, the brooding and cynical scion of a wealthy family, things don’t go well. Leyla is turned off by Ateş’s playboy charms, seeing him as just another privileged snob. But when fate reunites them, Leyla's radiant personality gradually breaks through his defenses, and Ateş discovers a new, more mature side of himself. Amidst a backdrop of mystery and emotional turmoil, the two opposites find themselves drawn together.

  • Three Sisters
    Three Sisters (2022)7.4

    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?

  • Time Goes By
    Time Goes By (2010)7.0

    Set in the 1960s, the story of the Akarsu family includes Ali, Cemile and their four children: Berrin, a law student, Aylin and Mete, high school students, and 5 year old Osman. Ali begins an affair with Caroline, a Dutch woman, which leads to the disintegration of the family.

  • 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)6.2

    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.

  • Yaprak Dökümü
    Yaprak Dökümü (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

  • Çok Güzel Hareketler 2
    Çok Güzel Hareketler 2 (2019)4.9

  • Umutsuz Ev Kadınları
    Umutsuz Ev Kadınları (2011)4.6

    Umutsuz Ev Kadınları, is a Turkish comedy drama TV series. Turkish version of Desperate Housewives, is a Turkish television series.