The Best TV Shows on TRT 1

Every TRT 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

TRT 1’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1956 to 2025. For top-tier entertainment, TRT 1 delivered Eurovision Song Contest and Yedi Numara in 1956 and 2000. Dive into our updated selection of TRT 1’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of January 2026.

  • Yedi Numara
    Yedi Numara (2000)9.1

    A couple with no kids, four city girls and three country boys, all under the same roof: arguing, fighting and sometimes understanding they are not that much different.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • An Anatolian Tale
    An Anatolian Tale (2020)8.4

    Taner is a young inventor living in a small town named Gedelli in the middle of the moor. He had lost his father so he was forced to support his family therefore he was not able to attend the Science High School, to which he was admitted, although he wanted it badly. Taner’s mother always tried to get him married, but Taner had no intention to do it as there was a love in his heart, which he had not been able to forget for years. His childhood sweetheart Dilek.

  • 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.

  • Mehmed: Sultan of Conquests
    Mehmed: Sultan of Conquests (2024)8.3

    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.

  • 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.

  • Deep in Love
    Deep in Love (2025)7.7

    In a land where people are accustomed to battling fierce waves and constant storms, the story of a woman who stands tall on her feet, with all her emotional strength, resilience and endurance, and a man who is passionate about his "love" and who competes with the storms of the Black Sea and struggles with its waves, comes to the screens with an effective script... The ups and downs of the mountains, the sea and the human soul are told through the eyes of a stranger who finds himself in the middle of the endless war between two mortal enemies...

  • 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)7.3

    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 Great Seljuks
    The Great Seljuks (2020)7.3

    The war of the Great Seljuk Emperor, Meliksah and her loyalist, Sencer against Hasan Sabbah, who is sworn to destroy the Seljuks.

  • Seksenler
    Seksenler (2012)7.2

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

  • 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)7.1

    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.

  • Avrupa Avrupa
    Avrupa Avrupa (2011)7.0

  • My Name is Melek
    My Name is Melek (2019)7.0

    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

  • Children of Paradise
    Children of Paradise (2025)1.0

    Iskender was a feared gangster in the dark alleys of Istanbul, known for his own rough code of honor—until betrayal left him bleeding and stripped of everything he had built. When he opens his eyes in a quiet Aegean town, he finds himself surrounded by warmth he has never known: a caring mother, a blind little sister, a home that feels like it was always his. The townspeople believe he is Kamil, a long-lost son returned; only he knows the truth. But the past never lets go—old enemies, blood feuds, and the ghosts of his choices haunt him still. As he uncovers a shocking secret—that this family is bound to him by blood—Iskender stands at a crossroads. Revenge or redemption? Will he remain the ruthless survivor the streets created, or dare to become the man he was meant to be? This is a story of love, betrayal, and the price of becoming truly human.