The Best TV Shows on TRT 1

Every TRT 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 1956 to 2024, TRT 1 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Leading the pack on TRT 1 are Eurovision Song Contest and Kaynanalar, with their initial broadcasts in 1956 and 1974. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of TRT 1’s elite series, with our list refreshed for August 2025.

  • Don't Let Go of My Hand
    Don't Let Go of My Hand (2018)9.1

    The story revolves around a girl named Azra who is studying abroad in America to be a professional cook like her father. She met Cenk, the grandson of Ferida Celen, on the plane and took his bag instead of hers at the airport by mistake. Cenk who was expelled from his university in America and struggling to choose his own destiny will get to witness the huge turn in Azra's life when her father dies in a fire accident leaving her and his autistic son with his greedy wife.

  • Yunus Emre
    Yunus Emre (2015)8.8

    As Mongol invasions are getting more frequent, Yunus travels to Nallihan where he establishes himself as Seldjuk official. After joining Taptuk Emre's dergâh (dervish monastery), he proceeds to follow his journey on becoming a dervish.

  • Alparslan: The Great Seljuks
    Alparslan: The Great Seljuks (2021)8.6

    It deals with the state structure, political events, wars of the Great Seljuk Empire and the life of Sultan Alparslan.

  • Come What May
    Come What May (2023)8.6

    Alize, who lost her mother the day she was born, is a beautiful but very selfish young girl who was spoiled and raised by her father. Alize, who goes crazy when she learns that her father is getting remarried, decides to fake a marriage with a man he would never allow her to marry in order to take revenge. However, things will not go as planned

  • Tozkoparan: İskender
    Tozkoparan: İskender (2021)8.3

    If Iskender, a 12-year-old archer with extraordinary abilities, does not return from 2020 to the time he lived, the course of history will change.

  • Leyla and Mecnun
    Leyla and Mecnun (2011)8.1

    Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.

  • Resurrection: Ertugrul
    Resurrection: Ertugrul (2014)7.8

    Ertuğrul Bey and the Knights Templar in the 13th century Alba and step and step with the struggle against brutal Mongols depicts the process of establishing the Ottoman principality.

  • Payitaht: Abdulhamid
    Payitaht: Abdulhamid (2017)7.8

    The fight of Abdülhamid II to keep the Ottoman Empire and Caliphate alive.

  • The Town Doctor
    The Town Doctor (2022)7.6

    Medical drama series, local adaptation of the Korean scripted format “Dr. Romantic”, centering on a genius doctor with an accomplished career who somehow ends up leaving it all behind to be a neighborhood doctor in a small town where he meets some younger doctors and becomes a mentor to them.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.2

    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

  • The Shadow Team
    The Shadow Team (2021)7.2

    National Intelligence Organization members are always ready to serve to destroy the enemies of Türkiye.

  • Saladın: The Conqueror of Jerusalem
    Saladın: The Conqueror of Jerusalem (2023)7.2

    The television series centers on the life of Salahudddin, a 12th-century Muslim ruler, and his conquest of Jerusalem. It also delves into his challenges and conflicts against the Crusaders, as well as his ambition to unify the Muslim territories of Syria, northern Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Egypt under his leadership.

  • Seksenler
    Seksenler (2012)7.1

    Turkey's series about the events experienced in the 1980s

  • Ayrılsak da Beraberiz
    Ayrılsak da Beraberiz (1999)6.8

  • Mehmed: Sultan of Conquests
    Mehmed: Sultan of Conquests (2024)6.7

    The project, which will follow the story on the life of one of the most important rulers in Ottoman history, Fatih Sultan Mehmed, will also feature important stages of the life of Eyüp el Ensari, an important figure in the Islamic world, in parallel with Fatih's life.

  • Love Me as I Am
    Love Me as I Am (2013)6.5

    After wealthy college boy Ömer and lower class college girl Aysem fall in love and quickly marry, they learn that love and life aren't always perfect.

  • Al Sancak
    Al Sancak (2023)6.5

    The struggles of 10 talented soldiers out to protect their homeland against its enemies.

  • My Name is Melek
    My Name is Melek (2019)6.4

    Melek will rebuild her life with her family and children. Melek is struggling to survive with her three children.

  • Prisoner of Love
    Prisoner of Love (2016)4.3

    After his mother left his father for another man, Ömer’s perception of women was forever damaged, and he considers them unreliable, untrustworthy and even dangerous. The only woman he has time for is his beloved sister Ayse, for whom he would do anything. Ayse herself is a great romantic and wants nothing more than for her brother to be happy and find love for himself. When she falls ill, and with only months to live, Ömer understands that the only way for his sister to die happy is for him to be married

  • Kaynanalar
    Kaynanalar (1974)N/A