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Kuruluş: Osman season 1

2019 Turkish television season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ104867557 ↗
Source-derived summary

The first season of the Turkish TV series, Kuruluş: Osman, created by Mehmet Bozdağ, premiered on 20 November 2019 and concluded on 24 June 2020.

Plot

10 or 15 years after the Berke-Hulagu war, Ertuğrul Ghazi goes to Konya and he leaves his brother, Dündar Bey, in charge of his tribe. Dündar Bey is easily swayed by others into doing their misdeeds. He falls into the trap of the devious Selçuk Sançak Bey, Alişar, and the merciless princess of Kulucahisar, Sofia, who seeks to kill all the Turks. Osman, Dündar's nephew, can see through Alişar and Sofia's plans and warns him about them, despite his refusal to listen. As they continue to build more tension against the Kayı, Geyhatu sends Komutan Balgay to cause more trouble and stop the Kayı, especially Osman, from rebelling against the Mongols. Dündar, who bows down to the Mongols becoming the Sançak Bey, can't see Alişar's anger over his position being given over to him and he believes him when Alişar blames Osman for his son's killing. Soon after, along with the threat from Kulucahisar, Dündar is shown the truth, Alişar is beheaded by Osman, and Osman has married his love, Bala. Following this, after many difficulties, Balgay is presumably killed by Osman while Kulucahisar is conquered by the Kayı with Sofia's death happening in the process.

Production

The season was written and produced by Mehmet Bozdağ and directed by Metin Günay.

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The public source identifies “Kuruluş: Osman season 1” as 2019 Turkish television season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kuruluş, Osman and season.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kuruluş, Osman and season providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kuruluş: Osman season 1” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.