Kara Para Aşk
Genre	Action Mystery Romance Drama
Written by	Eylem Canbolat Sema Ergenekon
Directed by	Ahmet Katıksız
Starring	Engin Akyürek Tuba Büyüküstün Nebahat Çehre Erkan Can Hazal Türesan
Theme music composer	Toygar Işıklı
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language(s)	Turkish
Production
Producer(s)	Kerem Çatay
Production location(s)	Istanbul Rome
Running time	Season 1:120 minutes (Episode 1-13) Season 2:130 minutes (Episode 14-54)
Release
Original network	ATV (Turkey)
Picture format	16:9
Original release	March 12, 2014 – July 15, 2015
External links
Website

Kara Para Aşk (English: Black Money Love) is a Turkish television series, which produced on 2014-2015^[1] and ran from March 12, 2014 to July 15, 2015 on Turkish ATV. Kara Para Aşk was inspired by Karadayı, produced by the same production company.^[2][3]

Synopsis[edit]

Omer Demir is a devoted police officer who has recently been rewarded an all-expense-paid trip to Istanbul with his fiancée Sibel Andak. He lives in poverty with his mother, older brother and his wife Melike, like Sibel, who lives with her mother, ill father, and sister.

Elif Denizer is a wealthy jewelry designer and head of her family's empire in Rome. For her birthday, she is traveling back to Istanbul, where her father, mother and two sisters live in a large mansion. That evening, her family surprises her for her birthday with a party, but her father dismisses himself early.

Omer is eager to be involved in a homicidal case, so his dear friend Arda decides to take him on a recent report. The report features two unknown victims murdered in a car on the edge of a cliff. Once Arda and Omer arrive, Omer is devastated when he sees Sibel in the passengers seat, with a bullet through her head. Beside her is Elif's father, also dead.

During her father's funeral, Elif is threatened by a group of men who intend to force her to reveal the location of some diamonds. Elif then discovers her father was actually the thief of diamonds worth millions of dollars, and now that he is dead she must find them and deliver the diamonds to them. If she doesn't, they will kill her family. She decides to keep this a secret from her family, because she doesn't want to worry them.

When Elif's little sister Nilufer prepares to go off to study abroad, she and Elif are kidnapped and taken to a shack, where a psychopath named Metin asks them to reveal where the diamonds are. They get enraged at Elif, who had promised to deliver them but failed to do so. They ask Nilufer about the diamonds, but obviously, she has no idea about them. Fatih, the gang's leader, decides to keep Nilufer and use her to pressure Elif. Elif is knocked unconscious and taken into the forest, where Fatih explains he will keep Nilufer as his prisoner until Elif finds the diamonds, but if she contacts the police he will kill Nilufer. They then use Elif to smuggle and launder money to Rome by keeping her sister as hotage.

However, as time progresses, Nilufer and Fatih fall into a complicated love and marry.

Cast[edit]

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  Engin Akyürek as Ömer Demir


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  Tuba Büyüküstün as Elif Denizer


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  Nebahat Çehre as Zerrin Denizer


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  Erkan Can as Tayyar Dündar


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  Hazal Türesan as Aslı Denizer


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  Burak Tamdoğan as Hüseyin Demir


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  Tuvana Türkay as Bahar Çınar


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  Saygın Soysal as Metin/Fatih Dündar


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  Bestemsu Özdemir as Nilüfer Denizer


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  Işıl Yücesoy as Nedret


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  Emre Kızılırmak as Levent İnanç


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  Serkan Kuru as Taner


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  Güler Ökten as Elvan Demir


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  Öykü Karayel as İpek


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  Bedia Ener as Fatma Andaç


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  İlkin Tüfekçi as Pelin Serter


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  Ali Yörenç as Mert Dündar


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  Aytaç Arman as Ahmet Denizer


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  Selin Ortaçlı as Sibel Andaç


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  Kerimhan Duman as Can


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  Ahmet Tansu Taşanlar as Arda Çakır


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  Elif İnci as Melike Demir


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  Bülent Çankaya as Deputy Security Chief of Van


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  Hatice Andaç as Hatice


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  Deniz Barut as Pinar


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  Damla Çolbay as Demet Demir

Awards[edit]

International broadcasts[edit]

Kara Para Aşk has been dubbed in many languages most notably in Urdu, Persian, Kurdish, Spanish, and Arabic.

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   Afghanistan: Tolo TV
  


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   Albania: TV Klan as Diamante dhe Dashuri (Diamonds and love)


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   Algeria: as Ennahar Laki
  


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   Argentina: Telefe
  


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   Bolivia: Red Uno Bolivia
  


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   Chile: Mega as Kara para ask
  


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   Croatia: Nova TV as Ljubav i novac (Love and money)


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   Egypt: CBC Egypt as العشق الأسود
  


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   Ethiopia: Kana TV as Tikur Fiker ጥቁር ፍቅር
  


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   Georgia: Maestro TV შავი ფული და სიყვარული (shavi fuli da siyvaruli)


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   Georgia: Imedi TV შავი ფული და სიყვარული (shavi fuli da siyvaruli)


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   Hungary: Izaura TV as Piszkos pénz, tiszta szerelem (Black money, pure love)


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   Indonesia: ANTV and tvOne as Cinta Elif
  


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   Iran: GEM TV and River as Latifeh
  


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   Kuwait: Alrai TV
  


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   Lebanon: MTV Lebanon as العشق الأسود


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   Mexico: Imagen TV as "Amor y Dinero"


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   Montenegro: Pink M as Ljubav i novac (Love and money)


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   Pakistan: Urdu1 as Kala Paisa Pyar کالا پیسہ پیار
  


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   Peru: Latina Televisión as Kara para ask
  


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   Puerto Rico: WAPA-TV as Kara para ask
  


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   Serbia: RTV Pink as Ljubav i novac (Love and money)


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   Somalia: Fanproj Series TV as Qarash Iyo Qiimo Jaceyl
  


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   South Africa: eBella as Black Money Love
  


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   Spain: Nova as Amor de contrabando
  


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   United Arab Emirates: MBC 4 and OSN ya hala as العشق الأسود
  


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   United States: MundoMax as Amor de contrabando
  

Viewership[edit]

This series is the most watched and loved Turkish series in Ethiopia, Turkey, Chile, Iran, Egypt, the Middle East, South America, Lebanon, and many other European countries. It has gained more than 65 million viewership in Ethiopia. Kara para aşk is leading the vote by vote for most for Turkish drama series ever seen.

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