Amazing series!
I will not go into detail about the subject of the series, but I will try to bring before you some aspects and elements that will make it easier for you to understand this project in which Cagatay Ulusoy played the masterly role of Peyami Dokumaci.
Starting from these personal reflections I tried to understand Terzi, through the depth drawn by the screenwriters to the characters. I will list some elements of Terzi.
1. Peyami's dance in season 2 represents his rebirth, his return to the worldly and spiritual, a new way of ascent to God, love and desire for life, to the real, to the natural.
Dervishes are initiates of the Sufi path.
The whirling dance of the dervishes unites the mind, soul, and body and brings them into complete harmony.
The whirling dervish is the fundamental condition of our existence: everything is in constant motion; everything is a continuous evolution.
When Peyami is determined to face his fears and oppressive past, he will step into the sacred places where he will dance, faithfully following Turkish customs. The peace and calm conveyed through dance and music will soothe his soul and bring him back to the light.
2. Another signal of Peyami's rebirth is his grandfather's story about the bird Sinurgh, considered a faithful, sacred, immortal bird. Simurgh means healing, life, rebirth, Divinity, and Wisdom, and this story will follow Peyami years from now when life's path will be strewn with obstacles.
"You have to be ready to be reborn at any time, even if you don't know where to start," Peyami will say in a meditation.
His grandfather knew how to look deep into his grandson's soul, and throughout his life, he had a lot of useful advice for him.
The Sinurgh bird can be associated in our series with a multitude of burdens carried on the shoulders by Peyami, since a small child. If for most children the father has a defining role in shaping them as people, in the father (Mustafa)-son (Peyami) relationship, things were the other way around. Mustafa, played with great skill by actor Olgun Simsek, was Peyami's playmate and by no means the person to guide him on how to follow his destiny. For Peyami, Mustafa represented a childhood full of frustrations, fear, and ironies from schoolmates, the dream of leaving home and following his grandfather's job, and the dedication to this job, because only in this way could he stay away from his father.
3. For Peyami, an open door to escape from the darkness that had engulfed him was Cemre.
Although she is a controversial character for many, she will enter his life tumultuously but exit quietly, at the moment she sees Peyami fending for himself, he started to practice the job that he loves, but above all, that he reconciled and accepted the fact that his father has helpless. Cemre, played by the actress Berrak Tuzunatac, is one of my favorite characters. Despite many controversial scenes, Cemre is a woman who does not ask for much from life, but who has a good soul and supports Peyami from the shadows to accept his father.
4. The appearance in Peyami's life of his mother Kiraz, (played by actress Evrim Alasya) has helpful tips. Thus, she suggests Peyami get rid of the poison in him by working. Words of Kiraz: People like Mustafa are angels, and people who understand that and take them under their wing share kindness and beauty". These words will be a landmark for Peyami and will wake him up to reality, causing him to realize that he does, in fact, love his father. The man he hid all his life, the man he was always ashamed of, will become most important.