Can Yaman is coming to Turkey for the shooting of his new drama very soon. Ay Yapım is the producer of the series to be shot for Disney Plus. The story of the series has emerged.
Can Yaman, who has been continuing his career in Italy for more than a year, will shoot the new series for Disney Plus, called El Turco. We actually made the announcement of the series, which will be a half-fiction, half-true story, on our page months ago. But at that time the project was still at the very beginning, it was not clear who will play in the series and where it will be broadcast.
The series named El Turco will take place during the Ottoman siege of Vienna. The series will be adapted from the novel El Turco by historian and writer Orhan Yeniaras. The book tells the unknowns of the Siege of Vienna, which took place during the reign of Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire.
El Turco tells the traces of Turks in a village called Moena in Northern Italy. The following information is included in the introduction of the book:
“A trip you take in this village where no one speaks Turkish will be the trip of your life. around you; You will be surprised to see signs such as Turkish House, Turkish Street and Turkish Coffee. If you continue the tour, you will be greeted by a bearded and turbaned Janissary bust placed on a marble pedestal. The interesting thing is that there is a Turkish flag with a crescent and a star on the pedestal of the bust and the word “Turkish” written clearly. If you go to the village in August, you will see that the people wear Turkish national clothes and take to the streets with the Turkish flag in their hands.
Showing a bust to any of the villagers, “Who is this?” When you ask them, they will say, “He is our ancestor, we are also Turks”. So who is this Turk? Ottoman intelligence officer Balaban Agha, who was found wounded and rescued by the Moena people in the Second Siege of Vienna, settled in this village and organized a successful peasant uprising against the overlords who were extorting money. In this documentary novel, you will read the unknown aspects of the Second Siege of Vienna along with the extraordinary story of Balaban Ağa.”