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Turkey’s leading production houses include Ay Yapım (three International Emmy wins), the drama studio behind “Maraşlı” and “Bambaşka Biri,” Tims&B, and the Istanbul/LA studio behind a well-regarded Netflix historical docudrama, Karga Seven, now owned by Peter Chernin’s production company since June 2023. Turkey’s “dizi” (TV drama) export revenue surpassed $1 billion in 2025, according to the Culture and Tourism Ministry, reaching roughly 170 countries (2026). This directory lists verified production houses headquartered in Turkey, sourced live from Vitrina’s global entertainment company database. For a continent-wide view, see our Europe production house directory.
- 1Ay Yapım‘s “Kara Sevda” won the first-ever International Emmy for a Turkish drama in 2017, and the studio has since added Emmy wins for “Yargı” (2023) and “Deha” (2025) (Wikipedia, sourced).
- 2Turkish dizi export revenue surpassed $1 billion in 2025, per Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, up from roughly $500 million in 2024 — a ministerial figure reported by state media, not an independently audited trade statistic (Xinhua, 2026).
- 3Karga Seven Pictures, producer of Netflix’s “Rise of Empires: Ottoman” (2020), was acquired by Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company in June 2023 — not still owned by Red Arrow Studios, as older directories sometimes state (Variety, 2023).
Turkey’s leading production houses include Ay Yapım (three International Emmy wins), Tims&B Productions (1,400+ hours distributed in 90+ countries), and Karga Seven (Chernin-owned since 2023, “Rise of Empires: Ottoman”). Vitrina indexes verified Turkish production companies with direct contacts and credit histories.
Dizi Exports Are a Genuine Global Business
Turkish television drama, known as dizi, has quietly become one of the world’s most successful TV export businesses, doubling reported revenue in a single year according to government figures. That kind of jump deserves a healthy amount of scrutiny — a single ministerial statement reported by state media isn’t the same evidentiary weight as an audited trade report — but even the more conservative earlier figures put Turkey’s export business at genuinely global scale, not a regional curiosity. What actually drives that scale is a production model built for volume: Turkish dizi episodes routinely run 90 to 150 minutes, longer than a typical US network hour and closer to a feature film in runtime, which means a single season generates far more finished footage per year than most other countries’ drama formats. That volume, paired with production costs that remain lower than US or Western European equivalents, is a large part of why buyers in the Middle East, Latin America, and Eastern Europe have found Turkish dizi economically attractive to license at scale, not just creatively appealing. A buyer new to this market should budget time to understand episode-length and season-structure conventions before comparing a Turkish deal against a US or UK equivalent, since a straight per-episode price comparison without adjusting for runtime will meaningfully understate how competitive the format actually is.
Key Stat
“Kara Sevda,” produced by Ay Yapım, won the first International Emmy ever awarded to a Turkish drama in 2017 (Wikipedia, sourced). Ay Yapım’s productions now air in more than 160 countries, and the studio has picked up two more International Emmys since, for “Yargı” in 2023 and “Deha” in 2025 — a sustained track record rather than a single breakout hit.
Full Directory
Ay Yapım, founded in 2005 by Kerem Çatay, holds three International Emmys and airs in 160-plus countries. Tims&B Productions, founded in January 2017 by Timur Savcı and Burak Sağyaşar, has distributed more than 1,400 hours of programming across 90-plus countries, with real credits including “Gülperi,” “Maraşlı,” “Aldatmak,” and “Bambaşka Biri” (“Another Love”) — note that “Erkenci Kuş” (“Daydreamer”) is sometimes misattributed to Tims&B in older directories, but it was actually produced by Gold Film. Karga Seven Pictures, based across Istanbul and Los Angeles, produced an Ottoman-era historical docudrama for Netflix and was majority-owned by Red Arrow Studios from 2015 until Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company acquired it in June 2023, Chernin’s first major international acquisition.
Browse Verified Companies in Turkey
The listing below pulls live from Vitrina’s company database, filtered to headquarters located in Turkey and ranked by reputation score. Use it to shortlist candidates before moving to direct outreach, and double-check a specific title’s actual production company, since credit misattribution shows up often enough in this market’s trade coverage to be worth a second look. A quick check against the company’s own site or a primary trade outlet takes a few minutes and can prevent an outreach email that opens by referencing the wrong show entirely.
BKM
Acun Medya
Ay Yapim
MF Yapim
OGM Pictures
Demirören Medya
The Bottom Line on Sourcing in Turkey
Turkey’s dizi export business is real and growing fast, backed by companies with genuine, verifiable international award histories rather than just domestic popularity. Treat headline export-revenue figures as government-reported rather than independently audited, and confirm production credits and current ownership directly given how often both have shifted recently in this specific market, and price a licensing deal against the actual runtime a Turkish drama delivers rather than against a US or UK hour-long benchmark. For related directories, see our Europe directory.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the top production houses in Turkey?
Ay Yapım, Tims&B, and Karga Seven lead the market, each with genuine international award or distribution histories.
Who actually produced “Erkenci Kuş” (“Daydreamer”)?
Gold Film produced “Erkenci Kuş” (“Daydreamer”). Tims&B Productions did not, despite a common misattribution in older directories. Tims&B’s real credits include “Maraşlı,” “Aldatmak,” and “Bambaşka Biri.”
Who currently owns Karga Seven?
Karga Seven Pictures is owned by media executive Peter Chernin’s holding company, The North Road Company, since a June 2023 acquisition. It was previously majority-owned by Red Arrow Studios from 2015 to 2023.
Vitrina Intelligence
Turkey Production Market Research · B2B M&E Data Platform
Updated Aug 2026
This directory was compiled and independently fact-checked against Wikipedia-sourced production credits, Variety, Deadline, Xinhua, PR Newswire, Filming in Türkiye, and Vitrina’s company database.
