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Ayrılık (2009)

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How it feels

A Turkish television series set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It follows personal stories of love and war, focusing on characters caught in the turmoil.

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What happens

Ayrılık: Aşkta ve Savaşta Filistin (literally Separation: Palestine at Love and War), known in English as Farewell, is a prime time Turkish television series aired on state broadcaster TRT. The series started on 13 October 2009. The concept consultant of the series is columnist Hakan Albayrak in daily Yeni Şafak who had also been on the board of MV Mavi Marmara during the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid, while its script consultant is the trade union leader Yaşar Seyman who is a columnist of the left-wing daily BirGün. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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