Wed, Sep 7, 2016
Inspector Mehmet Özakin and his assistant Mustafa Tombul travel to Bangkok on an unusual mission. Your order is to hand over the mafia boss Worawit Luang, who has been arrested in Turkey, to the Thai authorities. No sooner have they delivered Luang than the foreign assignment goes completely out of control. Özakin and Mustafa are kidnapped in a bloody attack and taken to the gangsters' hideout in the middle of the jungle. There, Worawit's sister Fawaini makes them an extortionate offer: Özakin should free her brother from the maximum security prison, otherwise his partner will have to die. While Mustafa stays behind as a hostage, Özakin sets off on the dangerous rescue operation. He can't expect any help either from the local police chief Glomgool, who has an unfinished business with Luang, or from official Turkish officials. Left to his own devices, Özakin has 72 hours left. The only person he confides in is his casual acquaintance, Mina Lorentz, whom the inspector met on the plane. He soon realizes that his former mentor and friend Kayali also plays a key role in the case. During his rescue operation, Özakin gets caught between the fronts of a gang war and becomes the hunted himself. In order to save Mustafa from certain death, he puts his own life at risk.
Fri, Sep 9, 2016
Thanks to the courageous intervention of his colleague Mustafa Tombul, Inspector Mehmet Özakin survives the bomb blast in a tourist café. Two key figures in the current case died there before their eyes: a professional killer and the famous writer Cem Pasha. Ibrahim, who was filmed at the scene of the crime, comes under suspicion. To Özakin's astonishment, the secret service immediately spread the news of an attack by extremists as a fact. Inconsistencies soon appear in the official version. It was no coincidence that the two victims were sitting in the café during the attack - especially since one kidnapped the other's wife. After the liberation of Emine Pascha, Özakin continues to search for the true connections, because the flow of money does not lead to terrorist cells, as state security claims, but to dubious transactions by an import-export company called Taurus. The extremely rich businessman Ünal Öker and his opaque connections are targeted. The fact that Özakin stands protectively in front of Ibrahim's sister Dilara when state security put her through the wringer makes the investigator vulnerable.
Fri, May 28, 2021
A narrow shopping street in Athens, a spontaneous dress rehearsal - while Sevim waits in front of the boutique, Clara, the 17-year-old daughter of her partner Steffen, disappears from the changing room without a trace. When the local police do not take Sevim's missing person report seriously and Steffen seems to have been swallowed by the ground, she asks her ex-husband Mehmet Özakin for help. The Istanbul commissioner immediately rushes to the Greek capital. There he finds out that Clara is in the hands of kidnappers. Özakin suspects a connection to Steffen's journalistic work. In fact, the building contractor Deimos Tzanidis and the ambitious politician Sofia Boutaris have to fear a political scandal. With the kidnapping of Clara, who is being held in a construction container, Tzanidis wants to come into possession of Steffen's research. The fact that there is no trace of the investigative journalist also grabs the kidnappers' nerves. Meanwhile, Mehmet and Sevim Özakin have to learn again to act as a team. Both know: Rescuing Steffen and Clara is a race against time. The trail leads to a beach region that is suffering from sand theft in the construction industry. There they encounter the shopkeeper Hektor and another crime .
Wed, Apr 10, 2013
Security firm owner Hunal and his wife were shot at home. Commissioner Mehmet Özakin must find their son Ersun, initially a suspect, actually the only witness, whom he saves from a masked killer thanks to a brave buddy Mourad, later must take home for lack of trustworthy relatives until his sister arrives. The next suspect, Hunal's former friend and fired employee, leads the investigation to the Istanbul Boxing Club.
Wed, Nov 19, 2014
Leading Turkish costume soap star Emrah Öztürk is fatally and expertly shot at a gala event, or actually his double, as the producer admits having hired one since receiving grim threats, so either could be the intended victim. Commissioner Özakin must examine both men's colorful past, which links after all, as well as studio politics. Meanwhile the presumed shooter is arrested but released for lack of proof, and tries again.
Wed, Oct 15, 2014
Commissioner Özakin's team investigates the fatal stabbing with a blunt object of archaeology museum chief guard Halil Gezer, in the park. He was disliked as too strict and recently fired a former friend Koray Celik, who refused to forbid his son Sabri courting Halil's daughter Ayla. Museum director Nesrin Günes opposes the ministry's intent to 'return' the whole Egyptian collection to Cairo and failed to report many valuable pieces being missing, on account of another crime, and more is to follow.
Wed, Nov 4, 2009
Istanbul businessman Hüseyin Akdamar, who checked into a luxury hotel for sex with Ukrainian 'maid' Ludmilla Dubrynska, is fatally stabbed by a person in a burkah. Later Faruk Soydan suffers the same fate, while Ludmilla survives an attack. Commissioner Mehmet Özakin, whose wife Sevim bugs him about 'neglect', and his assistant Mustafa, whose mother bugs him with her health, investigate the victims' families, the survivor, ultra-Islamic circles the Akdamars belong to and a feminist anti-adultery-activist Fatma Colak.
Fri, Mar 23, 2012
Contractor Baha Güngür is found murdered. His building site must be shut down if the archaeological findings there prove real evidence it was emperor Theodius's long lost Bosporus port. Istanbul commissioner Mehmet Özakin, who grudgingly hosts German exchange student Rico from his wife's faculty, however soon suspects an unrelated motive after another killing, having found in both cases a newspaper clipping referring to a German tourist's hit and run death, for which a probably innocent man went to jail and committed suicide there. His theory to the actual culprits would mean spoiled-rotten pop star Tolga Turan may be the next victim.
Wed, May 13, 2015
Half-German Ergan Gül (36) is fatally stabbed and dumped in the Bosporus. He worked in the illegal call center section of a major Istanbul broker's firm, which used dummy companies and fake accounts to sell real estate to foreigners and Turkish former ex-pats seeking a cheap pensioner home. Ergan thus paid for his language studies. Commissioner Özakin must work out if he was killed be a cheated client, as appears, executed for dealing behind the firm's back or the victim of a more personal plot, possibly involving his teacher-lover.