
September 7, 1966 · 60 years old

A middle-class Turkish couple is far from willing to admit they used adoption as a last resort to build a family, and will do anything to keep it a secret.

The story of four people who cannot manage to become a family again after a loss and who destroy themselves with each passing day.

Zübeyde, Mothers and Sons, tells the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's mother, Zübeyde Hanim, which begins in Thessaloniki, in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire, and reflects the period until the declaration of the Republic.