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20 Dakika (2013)

20 Dakika poster
Genre
LGBT-related television series
Country
Turkey
Length
1 season, 25 episodes
Rating
8.4 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A happy family is torn apart when the mother is arrested for murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Her husband works to prove her innocence while a criminal investigator searches for the truth. The story follows their struggles and the mystery of whether she really committed the crime.

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What happens

20 Dakika ("20 Minutes") is a Turkish television drama series broadcast on Star TV. This story talks about a beautiful family. A father, mother, daughter and a son that lived together in happiness and peace. One day, the police stormed in and took the mother (Tuba Büyüküstün) to jail. She was suspected of committing a murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Her husband (Ilker Aksum) tries to prove her innocence while at the same time the criminal investigator (Firat Celik) attempts to find as much evidence as he can to discover the truth. The big question however is did she really commit the murder? (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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