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Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

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Homicide Unit Istanbul

    • SeasonsYearsTop-rated
  • Erol Sander and Branko Tomovic in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #1 ∙ S1.E15 ∙ Im Zeichen des Taurus - Teil 1

    Thu, Sep 8, 2016
    Inspector Mehmet Özakin and his assistant Mustafa Tombul travel to Bangkok on an unusual mission. Your order is to hand over the mafia boss Worawit Luang, who has been arrested in Turkey, to the Thai authorities. No sooner have they delivered Luang than the foreign assignment goes completely out of control. Özakin and Mustafa are kidnapped in a bloody attack and taken to the gangsters' hideout in the middle of the jungle. There, Worawit's sister Fawaini makes them an extortionate offer: Özakin should free her brother from the maximum security prison, otherwise his partner will have to die. While Mustafa stays behind as a hostage, Özakin sets off on the dangerous rescue operation. He can't expect any help either from the local police chief Glomgool, who has an unfinished business with Luang, or from official Turkish officials. Left to his own devices, Özakin has 72 hours left. The only person he confides in is his casual acquaintance, Mina Lorentz, whom the inspector met on the plane. He soon realizes that his former mentor and friend Kayali also plays a key role in the case. During his rescue operation, Özakin gets caught between the fronts of a gang war and becomes the hunted himself. In order to save Mustafa from certain death, he puts his own life at risk.
    6.9/10 (34)
    Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #2 ∙ S1.E16 ∙ Im Zeichen des Taurus - Teil 2

    Sat, Sep 10, 2016
    Thanks to the courageous intervention of his colleague Mustafa Tombul, Inspector Mehmet Özakin survives the bomb blast in a tourist café. Two key figures in the current case died there before their eyes: a professional killer and the famous writer Cem Pasha. Ibrahim, who was filmed at the scene of the crime, comes under suspicion. To Özakin's astonishment, the secret service immediately spread the news of an attack by extremists as a fact. Inconsistencies soon appear in the official version. It was no coincidence that the two victims were sitting in the café during the attack - especially since one kidnapped the other's wife. After the liberation of Emine Pascha, Özakin continues to search for the true connections, because the flow of money does not lead to terrorist cells, as state security claims, but to dubious transactions by an import-export company called Taurus. The extremely rich businessman Ünal Öker and his opaque connections are targeted. The fact that Özakin stands protectively in front of Ibrahim's sister Dilara when state security put her through the wringer makes the investigator vulnerable.
    6.7/10 (31)
    Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #3 ∙ S1.E23 ∙ Entscheidung in Athen

    Sat, May 29, 2021
    A narrow shopping street in Athens, a spontaneous dress rehearsal - while Sevim waits in front of the boutique, Clara, the 17-year-old daughter of her partner Steffen, disappears from the changing room without a trace. When the local police do not take Sevim's missing person report seriously and Steffen seems to have been swallowed by the ground, she asks her ex-husband Mehmet Özakin for help. The Istanbul commissioner immediately rushes to the Greek capital. There he finds out that Clara is in the hands of kidnappers. Özakin suspects a connection to Steffen's journalistic work. In fact, the building contractor Deimos Tzanidis and the ambitious politician Sofia Boutaris have to fear a political scandal. With the kidnapping of Clara, who is being held in a construction container, Tzanidis wants to come into possession of Steffen's research. The fact that there is no trace of the investigative journalist also grabs the kidnappers' nerves. Meanwhile, Mehmet and Sevim Özakin have to learn again to act as a team. Both know: Rescuing Steffen and Clara is a race against time. The trail leads to a beach region that is suffering from sand theft in the construction industry. There they encounter the shopkeeper Hektor and another crime .
    6.7/10 (25)
    Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #4 ∙ S1.E8 ∙ Stummer Zeuge

    Thu, Apr 11, 2013
    Security firm owner Hunal and his wife were shot at home. Commissioner Mehmet Özakin must find their son Ersun, initially a suspect, actually the only witness, whom he saves from a masked killer thanks to a brave buddy Mourad, later must take home for lack of trustworthy relatives until his sister arrives. The next suspect, Hunal's former friend and fired employee, leads the investigation to the Istanbul Boxing Club.
    6.1/10 (29)
    Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #5 ∙ S1.E11 ∙ Das Ende des Alp Atakan

    Thu, Nov 20, 2014
    Leading Turkish costume soap star Emrah Öztürk is fatally and expertly shot at a gala event, or actually his double, as the producer admits having hired one since receiving grim threats, so either could be the intended victim. Commissioner Özakin must examine both men's colorful past, which links after all, as well as studio politics. Meanwhile the presumed shooter is arrested but released for lack of proof, and tries again.
    6.1/10 (29)
    Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #6 ∙ S1.E10 ∙ Die zweite Spur

    Thu, Oct 16, 2014
    Commissioner Özakin's team investigates the fatal stabbing with a blunt object of archaeology museum chief guard Halil Gezer, in the park. He was disliked as too strict and recently fired a former friend Koray Celik, who refused to forbid his son Sabri courting Halil's daughter Ayla. Museum director Nesrin Günes opposes the ministry's intent to 'return' the whole Egyptian collection to Cairo and failed to report many valuable pieces being missing, on account of another crime, and more is to follow.
    6.0/10 (25)
    Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #7 ∙ S1.E2 ∙ Mord am Bosporus

    Thu, Nov 5, 2009
    Istanbul businessman Hüseyin Akdamar, who checked into a luxury hotel for sex with Ukrainian 'maid' Ludmilla Dubrynska, is fatally stabbed by a person in a burkah. Later Faruk Soydan suffers the same fate, while Ludmilla survives an attack. Commissioner Mehmet Özakin, whose wife Sevim bugs him about 'neglect', and his assistant Mustafa, whose mother bugs him with her health, investigate the victims' families, the survivor, ultra-Islamic circles the Akdamars belong to and a feminist anti-adultery-activist Fatma Colak.
    5.8/10 (43)
    Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #8 ∙ S1.E6 ∙ Blutsbande

    Sat, Mar 24, 2012
    Contractor Baha Güngür is found murdered. His building site must be shut down if the archaeological findings there prove real evidence it was emperor Theodius's long lost Bosporus port. Istanbul commissioner Mehmet Özakin, who grudgingly hosts German exchange student Rico from his wife's faculty, however soon suspects an unrelated motive after another killing, having found in both cases a newspaper clipping referring to a German tourist's hit and run death, for which a probably innocent man went to jail and committed suicide there. His theory to the actual culprits would mean spoiled-rotten pop star Tolga Turan may be the next victim.
    5.8/10 (34)
    Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #9 ∙ S1.E12 ∙ Der Broker vom Bosporus

    Thu, May 14, 2015
    Half-German Ergan Gül (36) is fatally stabbed and dumped in the Bosporus. He worked in the illegal call center section of a major Istanbul broker's firm, which used dummy companies and fake accounts to sell real estate to foreigners and Turkish former ex-pats seeking a cheap pensioner home. Ergan thus paid for his language studies. Commissioner Özakin must work out if he was killed be a cheated client, as appears, executed for dealing behind the firm's back or the victim of a more personal plot, possibly involving his teacher-lover.
    5.8/10 (28)
    Erol Sander in Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)

    #10 ∙ S1.E17 ∙ Ein Dorf unter Verdacht

    Thu, Jan 12, 2017
    An unsightly sight and a big surprise await inspector Mehmet Özakin during an evening operation. The charred body of murdered video blogger Can Türkman is found in a burned-out car. She is supposed to examine his charming neighbor, of all people, whom he wanted to get to know better at a promising dinner shortly before: the new pathologist Derya Güzel. So that no one notices anything of their familiarity, the two formalize their professional cooperation. During the autopsy, the excellent coroner determined that Türkman was already dead on impact. There are several approaches to Özakin's investigations, because investigative posts about democracy, homosexuality or women's rights not only brought joy to the blogger. His recent research into an abandoned mine made him unpopular even in his home village of Tepek. There, Özakin begins to research and finds out that something was wrong in Türkman's marriage as well. Rumors of an affair by his wife Selma are doing the rounds. But the secrets of the villagers seem to be well guarded and Özakin has to use all his skills to get behind the wall of silence and solve the case.
    5.8/10 (26)
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