We travel over the city’s fabulous bridges connecting East and West, as we travel under its Roman arches connecting modern Istanbul to its classical past as Byzantium. In some ways the main character is the Bosphorus, a metaphor for the power of nature, the ebb and flow of time, the endurance of the city on its shores. At its centre is a compelling love story with Shakespearean overtones, but it deals with corruption, vulnerability, class disparities, and the contrast between the traditional values of the rural hinterland and the sophistication of one of the world’s greatest cultural treasures, historic home to 12 civilisations, Istanbul. Kara Para Aşk, masquerading as a classic detective series, is actually an epic tale of contemporary Turkish life. On Black Money Love, by Helenea Kane Finn 'While all of this verges upon melodrama, the acting is so good, and the suspense so gripping that we gladly engage in the willing suspension of disbelief' And so she volunteered to be our Virgil, leading us through all 164 episodes of this most legendary of Turkish dizis. ‘ It captured my imagination due to the cleverness of the script with its literary references, and the superb performance of its cast, ’ she says. Helena Finn, who as both an academic and a diplomat knows Turkey inside out, tuned in to a rebroadcast of the 2015 series Kara Para Aşk ( Black Money Love) and found herself transported back to Istanbul and memories of evenings along the Bosphorus. However, thanks to Netflix and subtitles it is a world now easier to enter.
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The Turkish dizi is a cultural phenomenon – somewhere between a soap opera and an epic – but an addiction that demands a huge commitment of time plus a knowledge of Turkish to acquire. Well before the pandemic imposed a night-time curfew on Turkish streets (writes Andrew Finkel), there were many who went voluntarily into lockdown certain evenings of the week to watch their favourite television series.
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