# Lale Devri

Lale Devri (English: Tulip Age) is a Turkish television drama series, originally aired on Show TV and FOX from 2010 to 2014.

## Cast

* Tolgahan Sayışman as Çınar Ilgaz
* Selen Soyder as Toprak Karagul Ilgaz
* Emina Jahović Sandal as Lale Taşkıran Ilgaz
* Serenay Sarıkaya as Yeşim Taşkıran
* Kenan Bal as Necip Ilgaz
* Hatice Aslan as Zümrüt Taşkıran
* Gül Onat as Ikbal Ilgaz
* Aykut Yılmaz as Kerem Taşkıran
* Ayten Soykök as Reyhan Ilgaz
* Ayşegül Günay as Sultan Yesilyurt
* Şerif Sezer as Nedret Ilgaz
* Selma Kutluğ as Şeref Karagül
* Ulvi Alacakaptan as Remzi Karagül
* Korel Cezayirli as Ahmet Çağın
* Kıvanç Kılınç as Sıtkı Engin
* Erdal Bilingen as Şefik
* Hakan Pişkin as Ekrem
* Gökhan Atalay as Mehmet
* Açelya Elmas as Ece
* Pamir Pekin as Cansel
* Ebru Nil Aydın as Nermin
* Gözde Mutluer as Aslı
* Gökhan Çetin as Medet
* Eren Bucak as Tibet
* Serdar Gökhan as Haluk Kırali
* Kadir Kandemir as Okan Bostanci
* Tolga Sala as Yiğit Yeşilyurt
* İpek Erdem as Münevver Hancıoğlu

## Series overview

| Season | No. of Episodes | Timeslot | Start of the Season | End of the Season | Episodes | TV Channel |
| 1 | 37 | 20:00 22:15 | September 14, 2010 | June 11, 2011 | 1 - 37 | Show TV / FOX |
| 2 | 41 | 19:45 | August 20, 2011 | June 16, 2012 | 38 - 78 | FOX |
| 3 | 40 | 19:45 21:00 | September 8, 2012 | June 15, 2013 | 79 - 117 | FOX |
| 4 | 17 | 22:00 | September 21, 2013 | February 8, 2014 | 118 - 135 | FOX |
Cinar is a very wealthy businessman. He has great respect for his uncle, who is like a father figure to him.
Lale is a beautiful and good-natured girl. She finds out that her father's death is caused by her mother's infidelity. She has a younger sister and a younger brother. Her sister Yasmin also likes Cinar.
However, Cinar and Lale fall in love and get married soon. They have a daughter also named Lale. Soon after, Lale (mother) dies which leaves Cinar devastated. Yasmin who has been interested in Cinar before Lale's accident takes the opportunity to comfort Cinar and they sleep together. However, Cinar knows that this is wrong and needs to stay away from Yasmin.
Cinar goes to a friend's wedding and meets a beautiful but sad girl, Toprak, who is devastated over her love's interest marriage to her sister. Cinar finds solace in her and asks her to marry him as a marriage of convenience, which should help Cinar stay away from Yasmin and help Toprak heal her heart.
Toprak accepts the proposal and they start their platonic relationship. Yasmin is extremely jealous of Toprak and often reminds her of her poor background as well as her divorce.
Yasmin gets pregnant with Cinar's child. She decides to keep the baby despite everyone's disapproval. The baby is born but has a unique medical issue that can only be solved by the bone marrow of a sibling. Lale's bone marrow does not match.
Cinar and Toprak eventually fall in love, but Yasmin will do all in her power to sabotage their relationship. She finds Toprak's ex-husband and bribes him with money, so that together they can set up a trap for Toprak. Meanwhile, Toprak gets pregnant, but Yasmin manages to put a doubt in who the father is. Circumstances put Toprak in jail, and she ends up leaving Cinar. She goes to a family who accept her and a boy in the family, Ahmet, wants to marry her.
Cinar is now lost without Toprak and tries to reconcile with her. Toprak divorces Cinar and hides her pregnancy from him. She makes Cinar think she got an abortion. Even though they still love each other, Toprak tries to move on and to keep Cinar away marries Ahmet. With pressure from the family Cinar marries Yasmin, even though he is madly in love with Toprak and is at a loss. Even though he is married, Yasmin thinks she has won, but Cinar refuses to even touch her. When he finally decides that he has completely lost Toprak and will have no other choice but try to make a life with Yasmin, Sitki shows up at Cinar's office with a recording that will change everything.

## International broadcasters

| Country | Local name | Network | Premiere date |
| Northern Cyprus | Lale Devri | FOX | September 14, 2010 |
| Serbia | Polje lala | RTV Pink | April 18, 2011 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Polje lala | Pink BH | April 18, 2011 |
| Montenegro | Polje lala | Pink M | April 18, 2011 |
| Slovakia | Láska v Istanbule | TV JOJ | June 28, 2011 |
| Romania | Anotimpul lalelelor | Euforia Lifestyle TV | 3 October 2011 |
| Romania | Lale | Antena 1 | 7 November 2011 |
| Czech Republic | Čas tulipánů | TV Barrandov | December, 2011 |
| Albania | Lale | KTV | 2011 |
| Kosovo | Lale | Kohavision | 2011 |
| North Macedonia | Лале | Kanal 5 | 2011 |
| Iran | عمر گل لاله | GEM TV AAA Family | 2012 |
| Lebanon | Leyla | New TV | 2014 |
| Greece | Lale, Έρωτας στην Κωνσταντινούπολη | Alpha TV | March 12, 2012 |
| Bulgaria | Сезони на любовта | Diema Family | April 29, 2013 |
| Georgia | ტიტების პერიოდი | Rustavi 2 | July 24, 2013 |
| Pakistan | Junoon Tere Pyar Ka | Hum TV | 2013 |
| Arab World | ليلى | MBC 4 | 2014 |
| India | | Zindagi | |

## Awards

| Year | Awards | Category | Source(s) |
| 2010 | Siyaset Dergisi Ödülleri | Series of the Year | |
| 2011 | 2011 Antalya Televizyon Ödülleri | Jury Special Award | |