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Paramparça
Also known as	Broken Pieces
Genre	Drama
Written by	Yıldız Tunç Su Ersöz Derem Çıray Atilla Özel Ayça Üzüm
Directed by	Cevdet Mercan (season 1) Altan Dönmez (season 2–3) Orkun Çatak (season 2–3)
Starring	Erkan Petekkaya Ebru Özkan Saban Alina Boz Barış Falay Mine Tugay Sarp Akkaya Tolga Tekin Nursel Köse Ertuğrul Postoğlu Nurgül Yeşilçay Burak Tozkoparan Leyla Tanlar Ayhan Bozkurt Hasan Şahintürk Ömer Faruk Yüksek Isa Cıvan Kavak İlhan Şeşen Civan Canova Dünya Aydoğdu
Opening theme	"Paramparça Jenerik Müziği"
Composers	Ayşe Önder Umit Önder Murat "Mayki" Başaran
Country of origin	Turkey
Original languages	Turkish English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	97
Production
Executive producer	Selma Koçoğlu Yücel
Producers	Gökhan Tatarer H. Hakan Eren
Production location	Istanbul
Running time	100–140 minutes
Production company	Endemol Shine Turkey
Original release
Network	Star TV
Release	December 1, 2014 (2014-12-01) – March 27, 2017 (2017-03-27)

Paramparça (English title: Broken Pieces) is a Turkish television series produced by Endemol Shine Turkey, starring Erkan Petekkaya, Nurgül Yeșilçay and Ebru Özkan Saban. It premiered on Star TV on December 1, 2014.^[1]

The story follows two women whose lives are intertwined following an accident. Gülseren who is pregnant, is hit by a car and brought to hospital to give birth. Meanwhile, Dilara gives birth at the same hospital. Due to a similarity in their surnames, the nurses switch the babies while taking to intensive care nursery and wrongfully given to wrong parents; Gülseren's baby given to Dilara and Dilara's baby given to Gülseren. Fifteen years later, Gülseren lives with her adoptive daughter Hazal and sister-in-law Keriman in a poor apartment and Dilara lives with her adoptive daughter Cansu and biological son Ozan in a luxurious villa in the seashore of Bosphorus. Gülseren works as saleswoman in small store. Dilara's relationship with her husband Cihan, a rich businessman, breaks down and Cihan leaves her. He starts dating Gülseren, which aggravates Dilara.

Cihan's childhood friend Harun, who has been in love with Dilara since they were students, comes to Istanbul to take revenge on Cihan for the death of his sister who committed suicide after she and Cihan broke up. Harun tries to win Dilara's heart as he had never married because of his love for her. Cihan proposes to Gülseren and Dilara becomes pregnant carrying Harun's baby. On the day of Cihan and Gülseren's wedding, Gülseren is accidentally shot and killed by the ex-husband of Ozan's girlfriend (who was aiming Ozan).

After Gülseren's death, Cihan's life becomes complicated and he remarries Dilara but neither Dilara or Cihan are happy about this remarriage. Dilara falls in love with Harun while Cihan falls in love with Ayşe, a well-known psychiatrist and kickboxer; she is identified by Cihan as the cousin of Harun and leaves Dilara for her, in the meantime, Dilara cannot abort her baby and compassionately gives birth to the child. Ayşe is killed as she intrudes on Cihan's father, who accidentally shot her to death while he was about to commit suicide.

The final season shows the different lives of the characters, Cihan is seen embarking, and exhausted with flashbacks of his earlier events, Dilara marries Harun and both live with their child, Alaz, in Dilara's home, siblings Hazal and Ozan become business partners, and Cansu prematurely marries Deniz and expects a baby, However she loses her baby because of her Parkinson's disease, which was caused by her falling into a coma after a severe car crash. She then adopts a baby, but she cannot take care of it properly as she suffers from body tremors. This leads to child protective services taking away her baby and Deniz breaking up with her amicably.

Soon Cihan returns to his family, and everyone welcomes him except Harun, who is still jealous and thinks that he had affair with Dilara. Harun becomes delighted when he discovers that Ozan is his biological son, but he is tragically killed in a mass shooting perpetrated by his client Damir's men while shielding Ozan from gunshot. This provides a great opportunity for Cihan and Dilara's relationship to grow because they fall for each other. Damir, who is wanted by Cihan, secretly dates Hazal, without acknowledging his connection with the mafia and the murder of Harun. Damir and Hazal finally cut off their connection until she admits the truth. The series ends with the assassination of Damir carried out by Cihan (after an earlier assassination attempt pulled by Dilara), and it goes with the wedding of Cihan and Dilara.^[2]

There was an on-set dispute and conflict between Nurgul Yesilcay and Erkan Petekkaya, regarding kissing scenes and personal issues, which led to Yesilcay's departure from the show in February 2016. Yeşilçay, who played Gulseren, accused Erkan Petekkaya of "mobbing" her, and the producer of turning a blind eye to what was happening on the set.^[3] Yesilcay claimed that Petekkaya put psychological pressure on her and nobody spoke out about it, and therefore announced that she would take the issue to court.^[4]

In an interview, Yesilcay stated that Petekkaya allegedly reiterated that he "cannot play a lover" with her onscreen and frequently felt uneasy with her, in addition to allegedly "belittling" and "humiliating" her on-set through his male privilege.^[4] Petekkaya, who is married with a child, allegedly retorted that Yesilcay is "too interested in kissing" and how she is "already accustomed to such things" after asking him why he would not kiss her onscreen.^[3] Regarding Yesilcay's accusations, Petekkaya responded that the kissing issue and his influence on her leaving the series were "full of lies and slander, every word of which was thought out and designed", before declaring that he "will not tell the truth" because "it would be very bad."^[4]

Furthermore, Yeşilçay expressed that the season 1 director Cevdet Mercan could not handle what was happening and left in June 2015. She claimed that the new director only approved of Petekkaya's requests and suggestions. Endemol Shine Turkey also made a press statement and stated that they will sue Yesilcay for her "unrealistic statements".^[3][4] In 2017, Petekkaya filed a lawsuit against Yeşilçay, alleging that she insulted him via mobile phone messages, though Petekkaya withdrew his complaint.^[5] Yesilcay and Petakkaya have since been estranged, after Yesilcay announcing that she "will have nothing to do with him from now on".^[6]

Country	TV	Premiere date	Title
Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan)	Kurdmax	April 1, 2015	Parçe parçe bun
United States	Adult Swim	June 12, 2015	Broken Pieces
Afghanistan	1TV	May 2015	Broken Pieces[7]
Bangladesh	Asian TV	December 2020	আয়েশা/মরিয়ম ( Aysha/Moriom )
Lithuania	LNK	LNK: August 5, 2015;	Gyvenimo šukės
Indonesia	ANTV	September 7, 2015	Cansu & Hazal
Georgia	Imedi TV	September 7, 2015	ნამსხვრევები
Iran	GEM TV	October 3, 2015	Güzel (گوزل)[8]
Romania	Kanal D Happy Channel	October 5, 2015 August 8, 2022	Furtună pe Bosfor[9]
Greece	Mega Channel	October 19, 2015	Pαγισμένες καρδιές (Broken hearts)
Bulgaria	bTV bTV Lady	November 9, 2015 January 14, 2018	Tвоят мой живот
Kazakhstan	Habar TV	November 11, 2015	Осколки
North Macedonia	Alsat-M Sitel	December 15, 2015 October 3, 2016	Fate të lidhura (Albanian) Парампарче (Macedonian)
Albania	TV Klan	December 19, 2015	Fate të kryqëzuara
Croatia	Nova TV	January 4, 2016	Tuđi život
Hungary	TV2	February 15, 2016	Megtört szívek[10]
Poland	TVP1	March 8, 2016	Rozdarte serca
Arab World	OSN Yahala	March 20, 2016	Ishq W Domou
Israel	Viva+	May 1, 2016	רסיסים (Shards)
Serbia	Prva TV Prva world	July 18, 2016 June 1, 2017	Paramparčad
Slovakia	TV Doma[11]	August 1, 2016	Vymenené životy
Ukraine	1+1	August 8, 2016	Уламки щастя
Sweden	SVT2	August 22, 2016	Förväxlingen
Montenegro	Prva CG	August 29, 2016	Paramparčad
Japan	TV Tokyo	July 27, 2016	破片
Estonia	Kanal 2	October 10, 2016	Purunenud elud
France	France 5	November 11, 2016	Morceaux
Mongolia	Asian Box	January 12, 2017	Аз жаргалын хэлтэрхий
Chile	Canal 13 (Chile)	January 16, 2017	Paramparça
Italy	Rai 2	February 14, 2017 (Valentine's Day)	Pezzi rotti
Ethiopia	Kana TV	July 4, 2017 – June 17, 2018 January 21, 2019 – August 21, 2019	ሽንቁር ልቦች (Broken Hearts)
South Africa	EExtra	October 1, 2018	Gebroke Harte
Slovenia	Planet TV	July 3, 2017 November 2018 December 2019 – June 2020	Tuje življenje
Bosnia and Herzegovina	OBN	January 30, 2018	Paramparčad
Mexico	Imagen	January 8, 2019	Vidas cruzadas
Kazakhstan	Qazaqstan TV	November 5, 2019	Шытынаған тағдыр
Colombia	Caracol TV	August 26, 2019	Lazos de sangre
Spain	Nova	July 19, 2021	Vidas cruzadas[12]
South Korea	Korea New Network	August 7, 2021	부서진 조각들
Czech Republic	Nova Lady	February 14, 2022	Vyměnené osudy

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• Official website (in Turkish)
• Paramparça at IMDb