Promise (Söz) (translated)

Military, action, adventure and war storytelling come together in the Turkish television drama Söz (The Pact). Produced by Tims&B Productions, it first aired on Star TV on April 3, 2017, and ran for three seasons, ending with its 84th episode on May 27, 2019. The weight of a promise, comradeship between soldiers and sacrifice for the homeland are its central themes.

The story centers on Yavuz Karasu (Tolga Sarıtaş), a well-trained young soldier who loses his fiancée in a terrorist attack in Istanbul. Dr. Bahar (Aybüke Pusat), who tried to save the wounded at the scene, crosses his path; Yavuz returns to his hometown of Karabayır, and Bahar follows him to hand over something that belongs to him. A new incident there makes Yavuz the commander of a special team charged with hunting down the threats to Karabayır and to the country. While the team members risk their lives on missions, the families, losses and personal costs they leave behind are an important part of the story, and action scenes run alongside emotional storytelling.

Yağız Alp Akaydın directed, and Ethem Özışık, Hakan Bonomo and Ercan Uğur wrote the screenplay together. Tolga Sarıtaş, Serhat Kılıç and Burak Sevinç are in the cast from the first season; Mehmet Özgür joins in the second and Deniz Baysal in the third.