Diriliş: Ertuğrul season 1

The first season of the Turkish TV series, Diriliş: Ertuğrul, created by Mehmet Bozdağ precedes the second season of the Diriliş: Ertuğrul and the first season of the historical drama television series premiered on 10 December 2014 and concluded on 17 June 2015.

Plot
Süleyman Şah, Bey of the Kayı sends his son, Ertuğrul, to ask for land from the Emir of Aleppo. This is made almost impossible when the Kayı are put in a series of problems with the Templars after saving Şehzade Numan, Halime Sultan, and Şehzade Yiğit because of the traitor in the Emir's palace, Nasir, who works for the Templars but is later killed by Ertuğrul and the truth is shown to the Emir. A brand new problem also arises with Kurdoğlu, Süleyman Şah's brother, who seeks his brother's Beylik with the help of Selcan Hatun, Ertuğrul's sister-in-law and adoptive sister, who wants revenge from Süleyman Şah as he killed her treacherous father, Alptekin Bey. Ertuğrul, who loves Halime, marries her after much difficulty. Selcan's husband, Gündoğdu becomes jealous of his brother Ertuğrul as he is respected as the tribe hero but gradually calms down. Towards the end of the season, Kurdoğlu is beheaded, Ertuğrul successfully defeats the Templars and captures their castle, and Selcan repents. This is followed by Süleyman Şah's death and the tribe's migration to Erzurum as part of Süleyman Şah's will before he died.

Production
Preparations for season 1 began in February 2014. In five months, the stories and drawings were ready. Gambat from Mongolia had drawings made in three months. The teams started their work in May 2014. The decoration and art team consisted of sixty people and worked for 4 months for the first episode. 4000 square metres of fabric were used for costumes and decor. As for the choreography of the show, Nomad, the special choreography crew of movies such as The Expendables 2, 47 Ronin, and Conan the Barbarian, from Kazakhstan, was invited to Turkey. The crew prepared special choreographies for actors, horses, and other scenes. The cast took riding, sword fighting, and archery lessons for 3 months. There were 25 horses on the set, attended by a veterinarian, who specially trained them. All are maintained on a horse farm in Riva. A special area similar to a zoo (but on a smaller scale) was created for all the animals which appear in the show, which include gazelles, sheep, goats, nightingales and partridges. The shooting time of the first episode was about a month.

Season one was filmed around Beykoz and Riva in Istanbul. Diriliş: Ertuğrul set up two plateaus for Riva and Beykoz Kundura Factory for the first season. The plateau in Riva was erected on a total area of 40,000 m2 with 35 tents built according to the original. In the Beykoz Kundura factory, Aleppo, Aleppo Palace, supply room, guest rooms, corridors, dungeons, Karatoygar room, Seljuk pavilion, temple halls, and rooms, lodges, and tent interiors were built on a closed area of 6,000 m2. In the Kundura factory, the Aleppo Bazaar, the interior of the fortress, the interior of the tent by Süleyman Şah, the dungeon, the corridor, and the altar of the temple were built on an open area of 5,000 m2.

Main characters

 * Engin Altan Düzyatan as Ertuğrul
 * Hakan Vanlı as Kurdoğlu Bey
 * Hülya Darcan as Hayme Ana
 * Serdar Gökhan as Süleyman Şah
 * Esra Bilgiç as Halime Sultan
 * Serdar Deniz (actor) as Titus
 * Cengiz Coşkun as Turgut Alp
 * Didem Balçın as Selcan Hatun
 * Kaan Taşaner as Gündoğdu Bey

Supporting characters

 * Cavit Çetin Güner as Doğan Alp
 * Nurettin Sönmez as Bamsı Beyrek
 * Hande Subaşı as Aykız Hatun
 * Burcu Kıratlı as Gökçe Hatun
 * Levent Öktem Üstad-ı Azam Petruccio Manzini
 * Mehmet Çevik as Deli Demir
 * Ozman Sirgood as İbn-i Arabi
 * Mehmet İnci as Emir El Aziz
 * Arda Anarat as Dündar Bey
 * Reshad Strik as Ömer Alp (formerly Claudius)

Minor characters

 * Turgut Tunçalp as Afşin Bey
 * Sedat Savtak as Şehzade Numan
 * Burak Temiz as Şehzade Yiğit
 * Can Kahraman as Kara Toygar
 * Tolga Sala as Hamza Alp
 * Gökhan Karacık, Derviş İshak
 * Celal Al as Abdurrahman Alp
 * Atilla Engin as Kardinal Thomas
 * Burak Çimen as Nâsır
 * Zeynep Aydemir as Eftelya
 * Fahri Öztezcan as İlyas Fakıh
 * Sedat Erdiş as Alpargu Bey
 * Dilek Serbest as İzadora
 * Gökhan Atalay as Atabey Şahabettin Tuğrul
 * Hamit Demir as Akçakoca Bey
 * Büşra Çubukçuoğlu as Leyla Sultan
 * Ayşegül İşsever as Dadı Ümmülhayr (El Aziz's aunt)
 * Özlem Aydın as Elenora
 * İskender Altın as Ömer (formerly Giovanni)
 * Melikşah Özen as Melikşah Alp

Guest characters

 * Zafer Altun as Baybora
 * Hüseyin Özay as Korkut Bey
 * Kıvanç Kılıç as Aykutlu
 * Birand Tunca as Bisol
 * Diler Öztürk as Alptekin Bey