Time jump

**Time jump** is one of case happened in the television series Çukur.

In the 21th episode of the 4th season, Sultan Koçovalı expelled Efsun Kent from the Koçovalı Family's house. Kulkan Erdenet then kidnapped Efsun and he delivered Efsun to Nizam. Yamaç Koçovalı tried to find Efsun, then Kulkan said Efsun's address. Kulkan made him fight a lot of men, Yamaç beat all of them, and thought he had found Efsun, but the girl he found was not Efsun. Kulkan knocked him out with an electroshock device and kidnapped him. In fact, Kulkan collaborates with Nedim, who is Uncle Cumali's men. Uncle Cumali and Nedim told him that he had to drive Yamaç out of the neighborhood.

When Yamaç opened his eyes, Kulkan said he was taking him to Afghanistan. He left him in a cave-like place and tortured him with dozens of men, one of them were Cenk and Yadigar. Kulkan tried to make him forget who he was, calls him "insect". For years, they beat him every day, wipes his Çukur tattoo in his body, and Kulkan ordered him to shave his beard every day. Years have passed and one day, Kulkan said that they were done and left him there. Yamaç forgot who he was, went out and talked to the villagers there. He learned from them that location is actually a village in Turkey called Evrenpaşa, where Afghans live a lot, so he found out that Kulkan had lied to him about this too. Yamaç then encountered Aliço and Emmi, which they had set out to look for Yamaç, and they had been searching for him for years. At first, Aliço and Emmi could not recognize him and and Yamaç did not remember anything from the past. Yamaç did not know who he was, he was saying "my name is insect". They ate at a place together. Yamaç saw Yadigar in this place and remembered the torture he had inflicted on him. He then attacked him and killed him. Yamaç slowly began to remember something, asked “did Selim die?’’, and Aliço said “it has been a long time’’.

They set out to return to Çukur and Yamaç cut his hair, which had grown too long during this period. Yamaç, Aliço, and Emmi returned to Çukur years later and when Yamaç came to the neighborhood, he saw a banner saying "The face of Çukur is changing". They saw that Çukur had changed a lot. For example, Aliço's hut has turned into a fish buffet. Aliço does not approve of the fish buffet, and so he decides to raid the buffet. The owners of the buffet attack him, leaving him severely injured. Also, barber shop was transformed into a coffee shop, shops that appeal mostly to young people have been opened and a university was established near the neighborhood. Yamaç learned that as soon as he got away from the neighborhood, Uncle Cumali began to rule the neighborhood. But of course, he did not know what happened to him was actually because of Uncle Cumali.

There was a difference of opinion among the people in the neighborhood. Some people close to the Koçovalı Family were on one side against Uncle Cumali. Cumali Koçovalı, Metin, Medet, Salim, and Ferhat were one of them. They thought Uncle Cumali was ending friendship between people in the neighborhood. Also, most important rule of the neighborhood had been broken, drug trafficking was now taking place. There were also people who were on the side of Uncle Cumali, like Salih Koçovalı, Karaca Koçovalı, Meke, and Murtaza. Akın Koçovalı and Celasun had to be on the side of Uncle Cumali. Akın's wife Yasmin was very sick and Akın afraid that something might happen to her, also Celasun loved Karaca and wanted him to quit Uncle Cumali's jobs. During this time, Murtaza married Ayşe, Meke married Fidan, and Feyyaz married Cennet. Yamaç and Efsun's baby girl was born and her name is Masal, while Cumali and Damla's baby girl was born and her name is Asiye. Uncle Cumali, Sultan, Karaca, Akın, Yasmin, Salih, Saadet, and İdris Jr live in Koçovalı Family's house. Kulkan is too poor due to Uncle Cumali has captured all of Kulkan's money, and Kulkan started working in a bar. Yamaç finally made up his mind and decided to stand against Uncle Cumali, with Cumali, Metin, Medet, Salim, Ferhat, Aliço, Emmi, Akın (secretly), and Celasun (secretly) took sides with Yamaç.

In the first episodes of the time jump, it was never specified how many years passed. However, at one scene, Metin said “he (Yamaç) is going and not coming for 3 years’’. At another scene, Aliço said that before he left the neighborhood, the professor (a character that has never appeared before) was 71 years old and he is now 74 years old. So, it is understood that there has been a time lapse of 3 years and the year in the series is now 2024.