20 Dakika

20 Dakika
Written by	Kerem Deren Pınar Bulut
Directed by	Serdar Işık Ali Bilgin
Starring	Tuba Büyüküstün İlker Aksum Fırat Çelik Bülent Emin Yarar Müjde Uzman İpek Bilgin Ayten Uncuoğlu Cihat Tamer Metin Çekmez Perihan Erener
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language(s)	Turkish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	25 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	90-120 min.
Production company(s)	Ay Yapım
Release
Original network	Star TV
First shown in	January 1, 2013-June 27, 2013
Original release	January 1 – June 27, 2013

20 Dakika ("20 Minutes") is a Turkish television drama series broadcast on Star TV. This story talks about a beautiful family A father, mother, daughter and a son, that lived together in happiness and peace, and one day the police stormed in and took the mother (tuba buykustun) to jail. she was suspected as in committing a murder . She was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and her husband (ilker Aksum) tries to prove her innocence and at the same time the criminal investigator (firat Celik) tried to find as much evidence as he can to find out the truth. but the big question is did she really commit the murder?

Cast and characters

• Tuba Büyüküstün - Melek Halaskar
• İlker Aksum - Ali Halaskar
• Fırat Çelik - Ozan Çevikoğlu
• Bülent Emin Yarar - Mesut Bilaloğlu (Kedi)
• Ayten Uncuoğlu - Zeynep Halaskar
• Cihat Tamer - Nedim Halaskar
• İpek Bilgin - Muavin Süreyya Gürok
• Müjde Uzman - Kuzgun

Episodes

Awards

Year	Prize	Category	Recipient	Status
2013	Antalya Television Awards	The Best Drama Actor	İlker Aksum	Nominated
		The Best Drama Supporting Actress	İpek Bilgin	Nominated
		The Best Drama Director	Ali Bilgin	Nominated
		The Best TV Series Camera Director	Barış Işık	Nominated
	KARVAK	The Best Actress	Tuba Büyüküstün	Won
		The Best Year Series	20 Dakika	Won
	Seoul International Drama Awards	The Best Drama Series	20 Dakika	Nominated
2014	International Emmy Awards	Best Performance by an Actress	Tuba Büyüküstün	Nominated

International broadcast

Country	Local Name	Network(s)	Series premiere
Turkey	20 Dakika	Star TV	January 1, 2013
Northern Cyprus
Hungary	Egy Ellopott Élet	Super TV2	July 22, 2013
Arab World	‏20 دقيقة‏ 20 Deqiqa	MBC1	August 21, 2013
Iran	‏۲۰ دقيقة‏ 20 Daqiqa	Nex1	October, 2013
Sweden	20 Minuter	SVT	13 January 2014
Mongolia		TV9	January, 2014
Pakistan	20 Minute	Express Entertainment	2014