Dear Minister (Sayın Bakanım) (translated)

Sayın Bakanım (Dear Minister) is a Turkish television series that aired on ATV between 2004 and 2005. Produced by Medyapım, the show is a Turkish adaptation of the celebrated British political satire Yes Minister. It premiered on October 1, 2004 and concluded after 14 episodes.

Written by Haluk Özenç, with Yılmaz Karakoyunlu serving as consultant, the series offers a comedic look at power struggles at the top levels of government and the everyday workings of bureaucracy. The clever mind games and office rivalries between a minister and the civil servants around him brought the tradition of political satire to Turkish screens.

Starring Haluk Bilginer, Kenan Işık, Ali Sunal and Haldun Dormen, the series relies on its experienced ensemble to portray the friction between politics and the state apparatus in an entertaining fashion.