Adını Feriha Koydum
Adını Feriha Koydum is a Turkish television drama series produced by Med Yapım. Starring Hazal Kaya, Cagatay Ulusoy and Vahide Percin in lead roles. The series was broadcast on Show TV. It is written by Melis Civelek and Sırma Yanık. It narrates the life of Feriha Sarrafoglu / Feriha Yilmaz, a young and beautiful girl who is a door keeper's daughter. She goes to a university which the playboy Emir Sarrafoğlu also attends. Emir a very rich man with whom girls die to friendship. He has never been in love before, but he falls in love with Feriha.
Plot
Feriha Yılmaz is an attractive, beautiful, talented and ambitious daughter of a poor family. Her father, Rıza Yılmaz, is a doorman in Etiler, an upper-class neighborhood of Istanbul. Her mother, Zehra Yılmaz, is a housekeeper. Feriha is able to secure a full scholarship to a private university, where she poses as a rich girl. She meets a handsome and rich young man, Emir Sarrafoğlu at her university. Feriha lies about her life and family background and Emir falls in love with her not knowing who she really is. She also falls in love with him and is trapped in her own lies.Feriha learns of Gunce's pregnancy and promises to keep it a secret. While helping Koray and Gunce hide the pregnancy and the subsequent abortion she is forced to lie to Emir. Hande has pictures of Koray and Feriha published in a magazine. Mehmet and Riza are furious seeing the pictures and her family then arranges her marriage with Halil, who starts to accompany her to the university. He spies on her interactions with Emir and snaps after seeing their display of affection. The season ends with Feriha's mother getting shot by Halil, Feriha's ex-fiancé.
In the second season, Emir discovers Feriha's lies through the plan set up by Cansu. He breaks up with her and decides to seek revenge by renting an apartment in the building where Feriha lives in the basement. They remain separated for a long time. On the New Year's Eve, Feriha gets kidnapped by Halil who decides to marry her by force. However, Emir saves her from Halil's trap and take a bullet for her. After the kidnap, Emir and Feriha both realise their immense love for each other. They forgive each other and get reconciled. When Feriha's family gets to know about her relationship with Emir, her father gets furious and decides to send her back to the village. On the way to village, Emir comes and takes Feriha along with him. Soon, they get married and Feriha's surname Yilmaz turns into Feriha Sarrafoglu. However, they both decide to reveal their marriage to their family at the right time. Eventually, Cansu tries to kill Feriha and Emir. When Feriha and Emir are taken to the hospital, their marriage gets revealed to their family. Both Yilmaz and Sarrafoğlu families get furious and shocked on knowing about the marriage. So, Emir and Feriha have to live the hard life due to their family's disappointment. Later in the story due to a misunderstanding, Feriha leaves Emir and goes to the U.S. with Levent, where she divorces him in absence. She returns to Istanbul after 3 years when Emir is getting engaged to Ece to protect her from Yavuz. Soon, the misunderstanding between Feriha and Emir gets cleared up and they get married for a second time. Alas, that the season ends with Feriha Sarrafoglu getting fatally shot by ex-fiance Halil
The third season talks about another beautiful girl name – Zulal Yilmaz who is a kind of sister to Feriha. Zulal was breastfed by zehra when she was a baby. Zulal also falls in love with Emir as Emir became hopeless and lonely without Feriha. Gradually, Zulal falls in love with Emir. While Emir proposes to Günes who is Yuvuz's younger sister.
Günes accepts the engagement proposal of Yuvuz's right hand man Engin. Engin tries to create fight between Yuvuz and Emir, so that he can be with Günes, he breaks the club of Emir where Günes is working as an architect remodelling. He also tries to get Yuvuz shot. Sanem who is living with Yuvuz, collects all the bad things Yuvuz has done and gives it to Engin. At the end of last episode, Emir himself visits Yuvuz to sort it out with him.
Cast
| Role | Actor |
| Zehra Yılmaz; Feriha's mother | Vahide Gördüm |
| Feriha Sarrafoglu; Emir's wife | Hazal Kaya |
| Emir Sarrafoğlu; Feriha's husband | Çağatay Ulusoy |
| Rıza Yılmaz | Metin Çekmez |
| Sanem İlhanlı | Deniz Uğur |
| Hande Gezgin | Ceyda Ateş |
| Koray Onat | Yusuf Akgün |
| Mehmet Yılmaz; Feriha's brother | Melih Selçuk |
| Cansu İlhanlı | Sedef Şahin |
| Halil | Ufuk Tan Altunkaya |
| Ünal Sarrafoğlu | Eray Özbay, Murat Onuk |
| Seher Yılmaz; Feriha's sister-in-law and Mehmet's wife | Neşem Akhan |
| Levent Seymen | Barış Kılıç |
| Lara | Feyza Civelek |
| Tülin Atabeyli | Ebru Unurtan, Çiğdem İrtem |
| Günce | Gülşah Fırıncıoğlu |
| Aysun Sarrafoğlu | Ahu Sungur |
| Ömer Yılmaz | Artun Çağlar |
| Rüya | Tuğba Melis Türk |
| Gülsüm Koray | Türkü Turan, Pelin Ermiş |
| Ece | Yağmur Tanrısevsin |
| Haldun İlhanlı | Özhan Carda |
| Orhan | Cihan Okan |
| İlker | Harun Akyüz |
| Sophie Zehra | Leyla Erdoğan |
| Rümeysa | Esin Eden |
| Yavuz Sancaktar | Emre Koç |
| Hatice | Ayşegül Uyguner |
| Zehra Yılmaz's first love interest | Aytaç Arman |
| Zulal Yilzam; Feriha's cousin | Beril Kayar |
| Gülfidan | Birgül Ulusoy |
| Nevbahar Seymen | Nurinisa Yıldırım |
| Bülent Seymen | Sarp Can Köroğlu |
Themes and reception
According to Nilüfer Pembecioğlu, Feriha is a symbol of class anxiety in Turkey; though having a university education, she is forced to lie in order to get ahead. Pembecioğlu lists it as one of the most successful Turkish television serials and being shown around the world; it was especially popular in Bulgaria, and was aired in Russia and India and Pakistan as well. In Pakistan, it aired on Urdu 1 dubbed in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan. In India it was dubbed in Hindi, the official language of India, on Zindagi which is owned by ZEEL. It became a huge success. The reason behind its success is a powerful story and natural acting by all the artistes.Due to huge demand, the show has been rerun on the same network since 12 May 2016. The third and final season Adını Feriha Koydum: Emir'in Yolu which until then hadn't been shown in Pakistan for unknown reasons, was broadcast for the first time from November 16, 2016 to December 15, 2016 at 6 pm under the title “Feriha-New Season” by Zindagi because of overwhelming audience request.