Lovers & Liars (2025)
Synopsis
Ertan Aydin is one of Istanbul’s top lawyers, confident, calculating, and trained by his father to win at any cost. When his father dies suddenly, Ertan learns he was hiding a secret that could upend everything he thought he knew about himself. To protect that secret, Ertan enlists Asya, a street-smart con artist struggling to keep her family afloat. Together, they stage a dangerous deception inside one of the country’s most powerful families. Asya thinks she’s using Ertan to escape her debts. Ertan thinks he’s using her to protect his name. But the game quickly turns personal, as lies become leverage, alliances shift, and emotions cloud the plan. In a world where truth is just another trick, Ertan and Asya will learn that the biggest con may be the one they’re playing on themselves.
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FOX
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Trap
Asya and Ertan, who have long lost their trust in life and people, will unknowingly create their own dilemmas while struggling to stay on their feet in the game they have built. Will Asya and Ertan who are so ambitious that they won’t hesitate to betray others for their own interests be able to emerge victorious from this game they’ve entered, or will the game consume them?
Trust Game
Hidayet is determined to introduce Asya to his children. This meeting ceremony is laden with new secrets and major events. The Bakizade siblings, who have understood their father’s game, have no intention of losing. Will Koray’s move bring an end to Ertan and Asya and to the game they have built?
The Key
Asya, who doesn't trust Ertan at all, decides to fend for herself. She needs to find the money quickly to pay off her debt to the loan shark Eyüp. To do this, she secretly begins searching for alternative ways to get the money. Ertan, in his quest to find his mother and recognize the father who abandoned him, has managed to become the Bakizade family's lawyer. However, Kadir, whom he believes to be his father, is not only the family's lawyer but also their accomplice. Ertan is devastated when he learns this. Furthermore, he is pressured by Hidayet to finish the job Kadir started. Enraged by Hidayet's behavior, Ertan decides to exit the game. He will also pay Asya her money. He begins taking all the necessary steps to do so, because remaining in the game has become increasingly dangerous for both of them. But the pit they've fallen into has already turned into a swamp that drags them both deeper and deeper.
Blank Note
Ertan and Asya are shocked when the DNA results don’t match their plan, sparking conflict with Hidayet’s family. They realize someone else tampered with the results and knows their secret game. As they face new threats and impossible choices, their plan starts to collapse, forcing them to fight for a way out.
Circle of Captivity
Hidayet’s paternity lawsuit, the footage in Eyüp’s hands that could lead to Taha being killed by Kürşat, Eymir’s eager and oppressive love, and the war axe the Bakizade siblings are holding over their heads… And against all this, Asya and Ertan who must stand side by side yet do not trust each other at all.
The Most Fragile Feeling: Trust
Ertan and Asya are forced to investigate Kadir’s death together, pushing them to rely on each other while their hidden secrets and growing feelings complicate the game they started. Hidayet tightens control over his family, manipulating his children as Simla follows mysterious clues about Taha. Meanwhile, Asya is cornered into marrying Eymir and, left completely alone, faces a harsh test at the very moment she desperately seeks help.
The Pit
Asya searches for a way out as fate tightens around her, while Ertan is shaken by unexpected blows and their deepening feelings can no longer be hidden. Hidayet confronts a major betrayal and forms new plans that affect everyone, while Eyüp, believing Asya deceived him, sets out on a dangerous path of revenge. As this threat spreads into Asya’s life, the neighborhood, and even Ertan, it remains uncertain whether Ertan can pull Asya and those he cares about out of this tightening trap.
Father
Asya and Ertan fight to save Taha from Eyüp’s deadly scheme as events spiral out of control. While Asya’s family confronts the past, Hidayet and Eymir reach the breaking point in their own battles. Amid the chaos, Asya and Ertan’s revealed love faces its greatest test, with a deadly threat closing in.
A Matter of Jealousy
Asya and Ertan’s marriage shatters the balance within the Bakizade mansion, while Hidayet’s self-sacrifice leaves behind unsettling questions. As Hidayet is hospitalized, a power struggle erupts among the siblings, forcing them to decide whether they can unite against Ertan. While Ertan searches for Eymir with Eyüp’s unexpected support, everyone pursues their own agenda—until Hidayet’s next move rewrites the rules of the game.
Brother
Hidayet’s decision to hand over his authority to Ertan pushes the Bakizade siblings into openly turning against Ertan and Asya, while the couple remains determined to shoulder this burden together. As the siblings form dangerous alliances to discredit Ertan, Eyüp’s unexpected arrival further escalates tensions. While Ertan fights to protect Asya, newly revealed truths and a carefully laid trap begin dragging them toward a far darker end than they ever anticipated.
The Photograph
While the Bakizade siblings believe Ertan’s arrest has freed them from him, Asya races to prove his innocence. At the same time, a chain poisoning scandal shakes the Bakizade brand, leading Ertan and Asya to realize they are facing a carefully planned conspiracy. As this crisis threatens to reunite divided siblings, the dangerous closeness between Eymir and Feray, Taha’s decision to leave Simla, and İrem’s desperate fight for Samet push everyone toward an irreversible path.
Grave
Ertan is shaken by a new lead about Kadir’s death just as he begins forming an unexpected bond with his siblings. While he and Asya follow the trail, Simla’s discovery puts Asya at serious risk within the family. As hidden truths surface and loyalties shift, the game Asya and Ertan built reaches its final act—pushing them onto a path with no turning back.
Children Betrayed by Their Fathers
As Ertan faces the irreversible truth about his father's death, a confrontation with Koray pushes him to the edge. While Asya struggles to keep her siblings together, the Bakizade family is rocked by a sudden crime and Hidayet facing mortal danger. Secret alliances crumble, leading to an inevitable final showdown for Asya and Ertan.
Like a Scattered Pomegranate
The events of a single night leave lasting fractures in everyone’s lives, as Asya faces her greatest loss and her grief turns into a desire for reckoning. While Ertan struggles to piece together a night he cannot remember, he becomes the prime suspect in two murders. As Hidayet attempts to restore a collapsing order, fragile balances are shaken, and Asya and Ertan move closer to a truth that comes at an inevitable cost.
No Love Is Real Unless It Is Tested
After the night Koray and İrem are killed, the unanswered gaps leave everyone facing unsettling questions. Asya puts her grief aside to follow her suspicions, only to confront an unexpected truth with Ertan. While Ertan struggles with terrifying gaps in his memory, Taha’s loss of control signals the beginning of a dangerous turn for all.
We Will Bloom Again
As Eyüp’s plan unfolds flawlessly, Ertan is forced into the heart of a new order inside the Bakizade mansion. Under house arrest, rising tensions push Asya to stay by Ertan’s side while continuing her search for her brother. With hidden truths revealed and sides clearly drawn, secret moves behind closed doors begin to reshape the balance of power.
Put the Kettle On, We’re Starting Again
After escaping his restraints, Ertan follows new leads with Asya as the operation moves into the field. Asya’s risky initiative threatens to derail the plan, while Hidayet’s tightening control inside the mansion forces sides to be drawn. When a secret contact turns into a looming threat, time begins to run out for Ertan.
My Dear
A confrontation at the hotel upends the balance between Ertan, Asya, and İbrahim as accusations and illegal ties escalate the tension. Ertan’s growing mistrust pulls him into a dangerous investigation that introduces a new name capable of changing the game. Meanwhile, at the Bakizade mansion, Hidayet’s condition turns the power struggle into a defining choice for the future.
Love Does Not Bow Down
Ertan follows his heart and opens a new chapter with Asya. Their bond strengthens and they grow closer. However, the sense of sacrifice brewing inside Asya casts a quiet shadow over their happiness. Her mother pulls her one way, and Asya another but Ertan doesn’t hesitate and chooses love. Yet this choice only adds more weight to Asya’s shoulders. At that moment, İbrahim makes a completely unexpected move. He closes the chapter on the relationship he had become obsessed with, but a closed door opens another wide. Hidayet sits Asya down and urges her to marry İbrahim. Emotions and calculations intertwine, and nothing is as simple as it seems anymore.
Phoenix
As Ertan and Asya navigate their feelings together, the pressure from Hidayet Bakizade reaches its peak. Asya’s collaboration with İbrahim to find out Ertan’s mother’s whereabouts, though seemingly a search for a solution, marks the beginning of a dangerous path. Their stance against Hidayet sets off a chain reaction that shakes not only their own lives but also the lives of everyone connected to them. Amid mounting pressure and exhausting developments, Ertan’s decision signals that their relationship has entered a point of no return.
Episode 21
The decision that separates Ertan and Asya's paths causes them to question everything they left behind once more. As the distance between them grows with Asya's divorce request, it begins to emerge that some chapters that seemed closed in the past were never actually closed. Despite everything that happened, the duo continues to work together, realizing they are up against a very large criminal organization and following the leads they find. Meanwhile, an unexpected development that arises before Taha and Simla drags them into a great dilemma. In the same days, a detail noticed by Feray is powerful enough to crack open the door to a truth that no one has touched for years.
Episode 22
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Original Title
Sahtekarlar
Status
Returning Series
Seasons
1
Episodes
22
Production
Ay Yapım