Season 2 • Episode 30
Latest"Carbine" The first Ottoman crime show of television history, -Filinta- is a show that presents notions of rights, justice, camaraderie, fellowship and love. Mustafa is a very smart, skillful, handsome young man. He serves as a policeman with his best friend Ali, who is also an orphan like Mustafa. Kadı Gıyaseddin is a -kadı- (judge) who belongs to a well-established family, and was trained in Damascus, Bukhara, Cairo and Konya from an early age. He is of an easy-going and coolheaded temperament. He shows us his refined wisdom in every scene. He also has trained sultans sons at the palace. He is a former mentor of the Sultan. Our story begins with a conspiracy against Mustafa and Ali.
Production
Lavish 19th-century Istanbul sets that cost a small fortune
Costume
Those kaftans and fezzes absolutely understood the assignment
Writing
Actual Ottoman legal procedure woven into crime plots
Onur Tuna
Filinta Mustafa
Cem Uçan
Bıçak Ali
Kamil Güler
Foto Abdullah
Berrak Tüzünataç
Farah
Asena Tuğal
Leyla
Bülent Alkış
Sultan Abdülaziz
Hakan Yufkacıgil
Cemil Efendi
Suavi Eren
Yüce Efendi
Naz Elmas
Azize
Nur Fettahoğlu
Süreyya
Rıza Kocaoğlu
Celal
Uğur Yıldıran
Garbis
Ebubekir Öztürk
Bekri
Hakan Kurtaş
Sultan II. Abdülhamid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filinta is actually a real Ottoman term for police officers who patrolled on foot, distinguishing them from mounted units.
The show sparked renewed Turkish interest in 19th-century judicial history, with universities using clips in law courses. The Kadı character specifically reflects the historical fusion of religious and secular law in Ottoman courts.
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