Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki (English: Time Goes By) is ÖyleBirGeça Turkish drama television series broadcast by Kanal D based on a true story.
Plot
Season 1
The series is set in 1967 and revolves around the Akarsu family. Ali Akarsu is the patriarch of the family and works as a seaman and the captain of a ship. He is married to Cemile and they have 4 children: Berrin, a law student at Istanbul University, Aylin and Mete, who are high school students, and 5-year-old Osman. When Ali goes on one of his many trips, he begins an affair with a Dutch woman named Caroline and that leads to the disintegration of the Akarsu family. When Caroline comes to Turkey uninvited, Cemile wounds her by stabbing and goes to jail. Caroline is hospitalized and from her hospital bed she sets her terms: Ali must get a divorce from Cemile in order for Caroline to drop charges against Cemile and release her from jail. Caroline moves in with Ali. Without any money to sustain themselves, Cemile and her children get evicted from their house. Ali lets Cemile and the children live in the unfinished house in Zeytinli, while setting obstacles for Cemile for finding a job. However Ali's mother, Hasefe, gives her total support to Cemile and helps her on daily basis.
Mete, the oldest son, sets the house on fire and Ali refuses to pay alimony to Cemile with the excuse of house restoration. Mete gets jailed for arson and beaten in jail. Ali demands the youngest son, Osman, to live with him and Caroline, in order to drop the charges against Mete and set him free. Osman gets abused by Caroline, and almost drowns in the sea while Ali was procrastinating. Fortunately, Ali's acquaintance "The Fisherman" sees the child in the water and rescues Osman. Osman returns to live with his mother because of Ali's inability to take care of the boy. There, the family friendship with "The Fisherman" blossoms. He falls in love with Cemile and asks her to marry him. Ali gets crazily jealous and promises to kill him if he doesn't back off.
Meanwhile, Aylin, the middle daughter is desperate from living in poverty. She agrees to marry Murat, the brother of the man that she loves, Soner Talaşoğlu. She also signs a prenuptial agreement, where the term is that she will become rich only after Murat's death, who is ill with an incurable disease. This unables him to walk and to keep his marital duties in bed. In the meantime Berrin, the oldest daughter, falls in love with Ahmet, a member of student Marxist movement. Another student, Hakan, son of a wealthy right wing man, is desperately in love with her. Ahmet's mother gets accidentally shot by the bullet which was supposed to kill Ahmet by the assassin hired by Ekram, father of Hakan. Hakan picks the gun and Ahmet starts looking for the revenge, believing that Hakan killed his mother. When truth revealed, Ahmet kills the assassin and wounds Ekram. People of Ekram start the hunting. Berrin hides Ahmet but the police find him and arrest him. Hakan helps him to flee abroad, however at a price, Berrin must marry him.
Mete falls in love with his music teacher Inci, who helped him many times, she encourages him to play guitar. He and his band take part in musical competition and become winners. They produce an album which becomes successful. Inci marries her fiancée but regrets it because her husband is not a good person. She gets seriously ill with cancer, and dies with Mete on her side. Meanwhile, Ali and Caroline get married. Caroline's old partner, a thief named Ekber, appears in Turkey and together they set up fraud to strip Ali's bank account. One thing leads to another, Ali loses everything but his pension and the house. Cemile doesn't want to marry the Fisherman because she learns the story of his life. His name is Hikmet Karci and he is a rich manufacturer, who left his wealthy lifestyle due to a family tragedy. Cemile also discovers that his ex-wife is in fragile state of mind, and she doesn't want to harm this woman, named Selma, by marrying Fisherman. Ali, still being jealous and broke, crashes the restaurant boat which Caroline sold to get revenge on him. The police are looking for Ali. A few days later he rapes Cemile.