The Shadow Team (2021)

Name: The Shadow Team
Rating: 7.3

Rating: 7.3

Synopsis

A team of elite agents within Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation are recruited for covert operations — on the condition that the outside world believes they are dead. Led by veteran officer Mete Bey, the shadow team carries out high-stakes missions at home and abroad, battling terrorist networks and foreign threats to national security. Drawn from real events, it's Turkey's answer to the spy thriller genre — patriotic, action-packed and relentlessly tense.

First Air Date: 2021-03-07

Last Air Date: 2026-06-07

Number of Seasons: 7

Number of Episodes: 187

Created By: Ethem Özışık

Networks: TRT 1

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Top Cast

Serdar Yeğin as Uzay Çelenkli
Yunus Emre Yıldırımer as Korkut Sönmezay
Deniz Baysal as Zehra Balaban
Ahmet Uğur Say as Gürcan Yücesoy
Tolga Sarıtaş as Altay Yalçındağ
Melisa Akman as Nazlı Hisarca
Murat Han as Hamdi Karaçay
Aybüke Pusat as Neslihan Erdemsoy
Turgut Tunçalp as Halit Gür
Gürkan Uygun as S2: Yıldırım Koral /S3: Efkar Baba

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Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2021-03-07)

A dark structure acting against Turkey targets Turkey's UAV and SIHA program, which attracts international attention by commissioning its plans. After this surprise move, a decision is made to create a secret team under the umbrella of the National Intelligence Agency. While this team, led by experienced intelligence officer Mete Bey, is planned to carry out many covert operations at home and abroad, it is necessary that the team members are officially dead. Mete Bey meets with Zehra, Uncle Hakkı, Pınar, Hulki, Uzay and Georgan one by one and tells each of them that everyone who knows them and their families should consider them dead. For the leadership of this team, which brings together the best intelligence officers of the organization, the most popular name of the organization is Serdar Kılıçaslan. While Serdar remains between his love for homeland and his love for Ceren, the other members of the team realize that they will go on an irreversible path.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2021-03-14)

Serdar, who suffers from the biggest shock of his life due to his beloved Ceren being a traitor, is questioned by internal affairs while thinking about how he came to this game. After the plane crash, with the official announcement of the death of the members of the team, the families go to Mete's side. While Mete gives the bitter news to families, team members who cannot communicate with their families. Serdar, who came out of the internal affairs inquiry, has to continue his relationship with Ceren on the instructions of Mete. While the team works hard to track down Pascal, who organized the SİHA attack, Serdar, who came to the secret headquarters, meets the team members. Upon the information that Pascal will flee abroad, the team takes action for their first operation. Vowing not to leave the blood of the martyred engineers on the ground, the team is determined to catch Pascal and reach the dark structure behind him.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2021-03-21)

Serdar still has difficulty believing in the love game he is drawn into. On the other hand, he wants to take back the external disk containing the SİHA protocols, which were seized by the killing of the country's pupil engineers, as soon as possible. Serdar sets a deadly trap by getting help from Zehra. Although it irritates Zehra, the trap works, and the war between Ceren and Serdar is getting hot! Those who died before they die, on the one hand, try to cope with the fact that they are unable to reach out to them by following their families' experiences in the face of their loss from a distance. But, on the other hand, in this game, in which they risk everything with their love of their homeland, they are now pursuing those who order an attack on the SİHA factory. An established game opens the door to reaching the “company”, which instructs Pascal to attack. This door leads our heroes first to Berlin, then to a bargaining table in Berlin, where there are enemies from many countries.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (2021-03-28)

Zayed Fadi, whose plans were disrupted by the team's operation, wants revenge. Fadi's putting Serdar at the top of the list of those who will be destroyed! He's mobilizing his men to see if Serdar has left Berlin. Serdar convinces Fadi and his men that he has left Berlin. With the intelligence it has obtained, the team is moving to prevent Fadi's provocations. The fact that Serdar and the team did not leave Berlin and disrupted all the plans puts Ceren in a difficult position. Ceren now has to prove himself again to Fadi. Neo-Nazi groups are attacking expatriate Turks in Berlin with the support of Fadi's men. The team is setting up a dangerous game to prevent these attacks. Serdar infiltrates neo-Nazis under a different identity. Serdar is under the influence of past traumas in this difficult task. Trying to prevent provocations against expatriate Turks, the team is plunged into an international crisis.
Ep. 5: Episode 5 (2021-04-04)

Nevzat's desire to take Sinan and leave Temrenli upset Mavi Ay. After the archery match, Sinan disappeared. Iskender promises his friends that he will bring Sinan back. Kasirga, on the other hand, is busy bragging to everyone everywhere with the joy of winning the archery match. Refika finds a copy paper in the classroom and moves to determine who cheated on the Turkish exam. Elif confesses to Refika that she is the cheater and confronts the disciplinary board to face her punishment. Iskender, on the other hand, finds Sinan's place thanks to his super skills, but bringing Sinan back will not be as easy as he thinks. Sinan's father, Nevzat, is determined to leave Temrenli to protect his son from him. What will Kasirga say about their win live on air? How will Iskender find Sinan, who has disappeared? What awaits Elif, who confesses to cheating? Will Sinan leave Temrenli? Will Iskender be able to convince Nevzat to bring Sinan back?
Ep. 6: Episode 6 (2021-04-11)

Ceren, who was surprised by Serdar's announcement of his identity and proposing to her, doesn't know what to do about this surprise move. A mysterious name from her past helps Ceren, who is confused by this movement that reaches the end of the road... Zayed Fadi is cornered when the team takes over Leyal, his most trusted member. He is forced to accept the offer to trade Hulki and Leyal. The team sets out to be extraordinarily prepared in planning each step to ensure the exchange takes place safely. Pınar and Hakkı left for the determined region of northern Iraq for exploration. Serdar and Zehra, who brought Leyal to the area where the exchange will take place, face unexpected surprises along the way. Fadi also makes his own plans for bartering. Collaborating with terrorist groups in the region, Fadi devises a diabolical plan that will turn everything into a bloodbath after saving Leyal. As the team tries to get Hulki out of the trap, they come across a much bigger threat.
Ep. 7: Episode 7 (2021-04-18)

Serdar, Zahra and Hulki, who put their lives on the line by surrendering to prevent the terrorists' treacherous plans, face death. Pınar and Hakkı, who are journalists in front of the terrorists in the region, also come there. Fadi's happiness doesn't last long, considering he's neutralized the SİHA that he's deciphered security protocols. Fadi, who understands the team's game and is surprised by what happened to him, will be in danger of losing his position! Disrupting Fadi's plans, the team returns to the country to rush Hulki, whose condition is getting worse, to the hospital. Fadi's failure causes a great deal of discomfort at the Company. Cornered by the Company's decision, Fadi takes one last chance to prove himself. Suspected of loyalty, Ceren receives instructions from the Chief to kill Serdar. Meanwhile, a video circulated online causes a stir. The teams is on high alert against a planned assassination plot against a senior government official in Ankara.
Ep. 8: Episode 8 (2021-04-25)

Mete, who was hit by a drone strike, is taken to hospital by the President. While Mete is undergoing emergency surgery, Serdar, who, despite his best efforts, could not prevent the assassination, is shocked by the incident. Although the team managed to escape the ambush set up by Fadi, Mete was shaken by the news of the attack on the President. The team meets at headquarters and rolls up their sleeves to avenge Mete. Despite every attempt to reach Fadi, the perpetrator of the attack on Mete, Fadi has disappeared. Finally, a clue is found with space's superior effort. Fadi's nephew, Kasım Firawi, is scheduled to reach Fadiye. But there is a big problem, Kasım is being held in an Israeli prison. Unable to find another way to get to Fadi, the team sets up a clever game to capture Kasım. Upon learning that Turkish intelligence is after his nephew Kasım, Fadi mobilizes all his means to prevent it.
Ep. 9: Episode 9 (2021-05-02)

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Ep. 10: Episode 10 (2021-05-09)

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Ep. 11: Episode 11 (2021-05-16)

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Ep. 12: Episode 12 (2021-05-23)

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Ep. 13: Episode 13 (2021-05-30)

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Ep. 14: Episode 14 (2021-06-06)

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