Arka Sıradakiler is the title of a Turkish teen drama

Teen drama

A teen drama is a dramatic television series with a major focus on teenage characters. The genre was relatively non-existent for the first 45 years of television; it came into prominence in the early 1990s...

 series, created by Birol Güven and directed by Hamdi Alkan. Meaning "those at the rear desks", name of the series was attributed to a group of forsaken students whose experiences are taken as subject of the storyline. The series began broadcast on September 30, 2007 on Fox Turkey

Fox Turkey

-History:TGRT launched on April 22, 1993 that was owned by Huzur Radyo TV A.Ş belongs to İhlas Holding.The channel was bought by News Corporation with Ahmet Ertegün on July 26, 2006 and changed to its current name Fox on February 24, 2007....

. It is aired weekly on Sundays at 19:45 (UTC+2

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).

Overview

The storyline features experiences of students and teaching staff of a suburban high school named Büyük Zafer High School in which gang fights, racketeering and drug abuse is common. While the students are trying to hold their place in chaos and most of the teachers are desperately getting themselves used to the situation, a new, determined teacher is appointed to the school. Pulling out all the stops, from family problems to psychological issues, he involves himself in every case about students. A typical episode practically analyzes emotional responses of characters to the troubles they face in their relationships between one another.

Cast and characters

• Bülent Emin Yarar as Kemal (episodes: 2-124/Season: 1-4), an idealist teacher whose purpose is to recover the students which have problems. He tries to communicate with students. He cares about his students more than himself. He has dedicated his life to performing his duty up to his best and helping his students to be healthy, productive individuals.Öğretmen Kemal TV series.

• Bülent Çetinaslan
  Bülent Çetinaslan
  Bülent Çetinaslan is a Turkish actor. He is mostly recognized for his performances in Duvar as Taylan and subsequently Arka Sıradakiler as Oktay Karaca.- Career :...
  
  as Oktay (episodes: 1-.../Season: 1-...), a student who is exposed to violence by his father. He reflects this violence to things around him. His friends regard him as a leader. He tries to create a justice he can't find in his life. He is brave enough to easily take great risks and he does anything to help and protect his friends.

• Sinem Öztürk as Gamze, Oktay's girlfriend (episodes: 1-.../ Season: 1-...). She doesn't get herself involved in gang affairs. Her family barely pays any attention to her so she's unhappy at home and when her boyfriend Oktay puts himself into trouble at school she loses her temper. She's worried about Oktay and his friends. Her greatest aspiration is a calm, happy family.

• Barış Atay Mengüllü as Saffet (episodes: 1-160/Season: 1-4), one of the former students of Büyük Zafer High School. He was kicked out of school after he had bashed one of his teachers up with his friends. He was also left in an orphanage at a very early age. He plays the vagabond with his friends around the school. While he had maintained his territory before appearance of Oktay and his gang, he later waged war on them for the control of the area. He sneaky misses his school years. He is accepted to the school again in further episodes.

• Fırat Çöloğlu as İbo (episodes: 1-.../Season: 1-...), one of Oktay's closest mates, a funny guy. As his father left them a long time ago, he is living alone with his mother. His father is an alcoholic and although he shares everything with his friends, he is ashamed of it. He has never known his father. His greatest aspiration is to save himself and his mother by striking it rich the easy way. In further episodes, his father returns.

• Deniz Sarıbaş as Sibel-Şebnem (episodes: 1-150;155-160/Season: 1-4), the mysterious girl of Arka Sıradakiler. She's bothered with neither the lessons nor the things happening around the school. She has a great secret she hides from everyone. She prostitutes herself. She has accepted this way of making life which she had to begin because of a plaguesome man. She thinks she can never save herself. Her greatest fear is that her secret reveals. She saves herself and starts going out with İbo in further episodes.150th hed died and 155th is Şebnem

• Temmuz Karikutal as Yadigar (episodes: 1-62;86-154/Season 1- 2½;3-4), a close friend of Oktay. A secretive, trustworthy guy. Although he's rather strict with his friends, he gets unexpectedly easygoing when the case is the girl he loves. He is so loyal to his friends that he can do any sacrifice for them. As keen as mustard on his friends, he's tough, humorous, cheerful, witty.

• Sevda Dalgıç as Özge (episodes: 1-160/Season 1-5), a rebel girl determined not to live the rage of puberty in herself. She never holds back from reacting to situations she hates. Pessimistically, she believes she is unlucky. Instead of working to change his bad luck to save herself, she chooses to merely rebelling to this situation and demonstrating her response by anger and violence.On the 160th episode he died

• Pelin Akil as Zehra (episodes: 46-160/Season: 2-4), Kemal's niece. She can't easily accommodate herself to the environment of Büyük Zafer High School after a childhood of freedom in the Netherlands. She sometimes steals to seek adventure and excitement. She doesn't hesitate to lie to reach her aim. Her only passion in life is music and she can easily get bored of anything else. Whimsey, moody, unreliable, she is so fond of her freedom that anything can be expected from her at any moment.

• Aytaç Er as Pamuk (episodes: 1-160/Season: 1-4). His friends nicknamed him Pamuk (Cotton) due to his softness. He wants to be a powerful and appreciated person. He's happy with Oktay and his gang. His biggest dream is some day becoming a brave leader like Oktay. He's in love with Özge. Despite her rebuffs, he never gives up.

• Engin Yavaş as Rıza (episodes: 1-160/Season: 1-4), a son of a rather crowded family. His brain is useful with making money rather than lessons. As his family doesn't compensate any of his needs, he has learnt to take care of himself by working here and there since his childhood. His family isn't bad but because of their moral and material problems, they're in no condition to take care of him. While he was growing up, Rıza learnt that life is a game with ruthless rules and that the only way of wining in this game is cheating. He puts away cheats, lies and cunning when the matter is his friends.

• Demir Kuvvetli as Dizdar (episodes: 1-116/Season: 1-3), also called Shrek
  Shrek (character)
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  . He is the eldest of four siblings in a low-income family. He is not involved much in his lessons but he has a sharp mathematical intelligence. Rather impassively, he ignores his problems most of the time. He does anything for his friends. The greatest thing he is intolerant of is starvation. He nearly can't even think when he is hungry. On the 116th episode, he died.

• Barış Büktel as Ali (episodes: 1-160/Season: 1-4). Just like Saffet and Memo, he has found himself in orphanage when he's too little. With an orphan child's feeling of loneliness, he has developed a passion for reading and has improved himself as he read. He has no one in his life but Saffet, Memo and Koray. He is a clever, thoughtful, sensible, determined and hardworking guy. He likes reading more than studying.

• Caner Erdem as Memo (episodes: 1-160/Season: 1-4), Saffet and Ali's childhood friend. He has never known his parents. He was left to Çocuk Esirgeme Kurumu (Society for the Protection of Children) while he was only 3. His greatest aspiration is finding his parents. He's lazy, reliable, loyal, sensitive, fond of his comfort and stomach. There is nothing he can't do for Ali, Saffet and Koray.

• Merve Erdoğan as Eda (episodes: 1-160/Season: 1-4), a girl who has found himself in a world he had never been aware of after the bankruptcy of his wealthy father's company. Since she had to change her school and her friends together with her entire life, she is unhappy. She starts to love her friends at her new school as she gets to know them better.

• Tuncer Öz as Barış (episodes: 1-78/Season: 1-2). Although he's successful at school, he works as a night shift taxi driver as the financial condition of his family bad. He wants to be an author in the future. He dreams himself writing true life stories of his friends. Rather than joining them, he usually prefers to observe his friends. He's enduring against the tough life he carries on together with his mother, his elder sister and his grandmother but he's sorry for his family. He knows that he has to be successful in order not to allow them to suffer.

• Gülşah Küçükyıldız as Sanem (episodes: 1-160/Season: 1-4). She has fallen in love with the son of a wealthy businessman. She had impregnated from him and then has given birth to a baby girl. Before the birth of baby, she'd got afraid of her father's argumentations and has decided to flee with her mother. She's sorry for disappointing her father but she thinks she hadn't had any other solution. Becoming a mother has changed Sanem a lot. She used to be quite enjoyable and cheerful but now she's conservative and responsible to his child.

• Aslı Bankoğlu as Aslım (episodes: 1-78/Season: 1-2). She used to be lively and cheerful but her friends' making fun of her overweights has made her sink into a depression. She hadn't been caring much about their teases at first but her falling in love with Yadigar made her hung up on her appearance. Her greatest dream is ridding herself of her overweights and becoming a girl who Yadigar might like.

• İlkin Tüfekçi as Selin (episodes: 31-83/ Season: 1½-3¼). As a result of the trauma she took upon the death of her father while she was 12, she has lost her speech. In further episodes, she gains her speech back with the impact of the night at which Gamze has been shot. Selin gets along well with her friends, she's indulgent and emotional. She likes watching films and chatting with her friends. When her mother married for the second time, she has begun to live with her grandmother.

• Yağmur Berfo Özgenç as İrem (episodes: 1-78/Season: 1-2). She's a daughter of a middle class family. She has a sister she always quarrels with. She's gossipy, bitchy, poisonous and jealous. Her closest friends are Aslım and Eda. However, she sometimes gets jealous of Eda and tries to destroy the friendship between her and Aslım. Nevertheless, as she's an enjoyable girl, her friends never get bored with her. She loves making fun of boys. She never completely trusts to someone. She doesn't value love much.

• Osman Büyükercan as Cahit (episodes: 1-.../Season: 1-...), Oktay's elder brother. He has moved to his own house a couple of years ago as he couldn't get along with his father, Nihat. He has chosen to work instead of attending a university. He has had intercourse with the wife of the businessman as whose henchman he had been working. His dearest wish is preventing Oktay from doing the same mistakes and making him finish the school to save himself.

• Mehmet Ulay as Nihat (episodes: 1-.../Season: 1-...), Oktay and Cahit's father. His father was a disciplined officer. He has raised Nihat and his brothers with strict rules and violence. Since Nihat was the most mischievous of his brothers, he had been occasionally exposed to a level of violence which can be accounted of torment. He couldn't lead a life as his father wanted. When he couldn't join the army too, he has disappointed his father more and eventually disowned by him.

• Engin Yüksel as Zafer (episodes: 1-121/Season: 1-4), a prim, hung-up, egotistical maths teacher who lines up with violence in education of students. He is also the vice-principal of the school. He can do anything to be obeyed. He's as concerned with the students as Kemal does but instead of recovering them, he tries to destroy them, thrusting them aside not to allow them to disorder the system.She is Çocuklar Duymasın Seyyar Tayyar friends Zabıta Mesut.

• Şeniz Kurultay as Mine (episodes: 1-78/Season: 1-2), the English teacher. She has a timid, starry-eyed nature. She can easily managed by students. She loves Kemal.

• Emin Gümüşkaya as Hulusi (episodes: 1-121/Season: 1-3), the frustrated, careless, lazy principal. He's not furious against students but he doesn't hold in a bit of an esteem for them either. Rather than trying to perform his duties, he just looks forward to his next payday.She is 2010-2011 Çocuklar Duymasın TV Series Seyyar Tayyar.

• Feriha Eyüboğlu as Leyla (episodes: 1-.../Season: 1-...), the history teacher. She loves her job and her students a lot. She's met with incidents in Büyük Zafer High School that she had seen in none of the schools she served at during her past career. In the course of time she has begun to be afraid of troublesome students like other teachers. She wants students to put themselves in order immediately.

• Tahsin Taşkın as Rifo (episodes: 1-.../Season: 1-...), canteen operator of Büyük Zafer High School. He comes from Rize
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   to Istanbul
  Istanbul
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  years ago. After he had done several jobs, he decides to open a small grocery shop but he fails to come off and goes bankrupt in a short time. Luckily, Hulusi is one of his customers those days. Rifo gains his favor with his friendly personality and starts to work at the canteen of Büyük Zafer High School. He cares for problems of the students, joins in their jokes, treats them as a big brother.

• Sılay Ünal as Nazan (episodes: 39-64/Season: 1¾-2½), a childhood friend of Sibel's. She works as a nurse. She's jealous, deceitful, two faced, ill intentioned and obsessive. Her only aim is to soil Sibel's love for İbo and to break them up. She's a lonely girl, whom no one likes and she has some psychological problems.

• Esin Civangil as Buket (episodes: 42-78/Season: 2), the only daughter of a wealthy family. She's studying in a private school. Doing nothing but gossiping and shopping with her wealthy friends sometimes suffocates her. She has an emotional, understanding, cheerful, tender, enjoyable and intimate personality. Her meeting with Oktay turns into a milestone for her. When she falls in love with Oktay, she gets into an environment different from she was in.

• Gürbey İleri as Kerem (episodes: 46-145/Season: 2-4), spoilt son of a rich family. He's in the same school with Buket. He has started a gang with some of his school mates and has taken the head of this gang. He is ambitious, confident, vying, aggressive and foolhardy. While he's so used to get everything he wants easily, he can't put up with the fact that Buket has left him. His only purpose is taking Buket back from Oktay.On The 145th episode he died.

• Alp Çoker as Tamer (episodes: 46-.../Season: 2-...), Kerem's closest school mate and right-hand man. He's used as a pawn by Kerem. He can easily change his mind. He's somewhat unsuspicious, pleasure seeking, irresponsible and unreliable. Because he admires Kerem and is afraid of losing his friendship, he can do anything. However, if he runs across someone who's more enjoyable than Kerem, he might leave him high and dry. He's a superficial character, who builds his friendships on fun rather than trust.

Episodes

Season	Total Episodes	Season Premiere	Season Finale
Season 1	40
Season 2	38
Season 3	43

// Season 4
40
((Start Date /2010/08/22))
((End Date /2011/06/05))

Music

Composer Aydın Sarman, who also took on arranging the music of upcoming soundtrack album, collaborated with Burcu Güven to score various themes for the series. Style of these themes was largely rock influenced, including frequent guitar solos and strong, deep
vocals performed by Bülent Çidem. Besides his vocals, Burcu Güven's voice is also audible in some of the songs as a backing vocal and a single track is completely performed by Aydın Sarman himself.

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album of the series was released as the product of nearly a year of work on November 16, 2008. The number of tracks in the album can be accounted as a record for a TV series. Including instrumental tracks as well, the album consists of 22 tracks 11 of which are original. The album has a rich sound which might please not only the Arka Sıradakiler fans but also all the music lovers. Most of the lyrics and composition is created by Aydın Sarman and Burcu Güven again while Bülent Çidem is still the vocalist. The album - with an exception or two - features all of the background music audible in the show. It is also allowed its purchasers to join in a free sweepstakes by applying over the official website of the series. Those who won the sweepstakes gained the right to be one of ten people, who had the chance to meet the performers by getting into the film set. The sweepstakes first of which was executed on January 10, 2009
, were repeated in the 10th day of each month until June 2009
.

Track listing

#	Title	In English	Time
1	"Arka Sıradakiler Jenerik"	"Arka Sıradakiler Credits"	03:21
2	"Aşk Çıkmazı"	"Dilemma of Love"	02:25
3	"Hayatın Hayalleri"	"Dreams of Life"	01:04
4	"Yalan Dünya"	"Hollow World"	02:26
5	"Hep Birlikte"	"All Together"	01:20
6	"Karanlık Yollar"	"Dark Paths"	02:48
7	"Tek Yumruk"	"Single Fist"	01:09
8	"Deli Çağlarım"	"My Crazy Ages"	04:15
9	"Mavi Sakal"	"Blue Beard"	01:41
10	"Gitmeler"	"Departures"	03:43
11	"Bariz Gıcık Oluyorum"	"Obviously Pissing Me Off"	02:04
12	"Nasihat"	"The Advice"	02:10
13	"Yalan"	"Lie"	02:40
14	"İlk Bakış"	"First Sight"	01:50
15	"Annem"	"My Mother"	02:46
16	"Acı ve Umut"	"Pain and Hope"	01:40
17	"Babam"	"My Father"	03:44
18	"Hüzne Dönüş"	"Returning to Sorrow"	02:28
19	"Urfa'nın Etrafı"	"Around Urfa"	04:32
20	"Uzak Aşk"	"Distant Love"	01:33
21	"Genç Türk Marşı (Ekstra Parça)"	"Anthem of the Young Turk (Extra Track)"	02:36
22	"Arka Sıradakiler Jenerik (Enstrümantal)"	"Arka Sıradakiler Credits (Instrumental)"	01:40

External links

• Production website