Doruk Öztürk

Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.

Cezayir Türk, a secret service assassin who served for his country, gets revenge of his brother who is sabotaged. He starts a new life by showing that he died for the sake of the state and the safety of his family. As a result of an injury that takes place on one of his operations abroad, he meets Firuze, one of the doctors without borders. Even though he misses his wife and kids, from the bottom of his heart he knows that going back to them is nearly impossible, yet this word is not in his vocabulary. He falls in love with Firuze to start their family, in the meantime, he gets exposed and had to go back to Istanbul. Neither his secondary family knows, nor did the original family who wept and prayed at his graveyard follow up the recent events happening to him. Istanbul, on the other hand, is not the same as where he left. He will do his best fighting the foreign forces, while it will also require his energy to be divided between two women who are in love with him.

The paths of two former sweethearts unexpectedly cross years later as they grapple with their dreams and disappointments