Kuzgun (transl. "Raven") is a Turkish psychological thriller television series that started to be broadcast on Star TV on 13 February 2019, written by Burcu Görgün Toptaş and Özlem Yılmaz, directed by Bahadır İnce and starring Barış Arduç and Burcu Biricik. It ended with the 21st episode released on 16 October 2019, by making a final.
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Yusuf an honest policeman lives happily with his wife Meryem and three children, Kuzgun, Kartal and Kumru. One night Yusuf and his colleague Rifat are on a mission to capture Sheref, a drug lord, Sheref offers a bribe to Yusuf which he refuses, however Rifat accepts it as he needs money for treatment of his wife Sultan and betrays Yusuf which leads to Yusuf getting arrested. However, Yusuf has recorded everything in a tape. In order to get that tape Sheref's man take Kuzgun after being chosen by Meryem to be taken away but the latter manages to escape from them. He can not find his family at home and has to survive on the streets. Rifat becomes Sheref's partner.
20 years later, a now mentally unstable Kuzgun is ready for revenge. Kuzgun makes a plan to join the Rifat gang for which he goes after his daughter Dila, a lawyer who recently came back from London. To meet Dila, Kuzgun becomes her bodyguard without revealing his identity and saves her life. After that, he returns to Istanbul and reveals his identity to Dila and with her help, he starts working in Rifat's gang.
Dila and Kuzgun are childhood sweethearts. He tries to harden his heart, as he views himself too dangerous and deranged for her, but the old spark just won’t die. Soon their love catches fire, and the bond between them becomes Kuzgun’s greatest obstacle. Can this unbreakable love conquer his thirst for revenge, or will it further deteriorate his already weak sanity?
This improbable love story puts Kuzgun and Dila on a dangerous path, as the forces of love and revenge transform them both, and threaten to drive Kuzgun to insanity.