Yasak Elma (English title: Forbidden Apple) is a Turkish television series created by Medyapım, featuring actors Şevval Sam and Eda Ece. The show was written by Melis Civelek and Zeynep Gür, with Neslihan Yeşilyurt directing the first three seasons, Murat Öztürk taking over for the fourth season, and Ece Erdek Koçoğlu directing the fifth and sixth seasons.[1]
Ender, a woman from the high society and wife of successful businessman Halit Argun, hires Yıldız Yılmaz as her husband's personal waitress. Ender later offers money in return for Yıldız to seduce Halit so Ender can get finances after their divorce but Yıldız betrays Ender and exposes her plan. Halit divorces Ender upon learning the truth. She is left without money and begins her struggle to maintain her past position in society. Meanwhile, Yıldız and Halit get married.
Yıldız's sister Zeynep falls for her boss, Alihan Taşdemir.
Ender's and Yıldız's enmity and intrigue continue. Yıldız's first husband, Kemal, now well off, returns with a plan to take revenge on Yıldız, because she divorced him on the wedding day as she had been accepted for an acting opportunity. As Kemal was poor, she left him for fame and money. Later, Kemal and Yıldız fall for each other and Kemal asks Yıldız to choose between him and Halit. Yıldız finds it difficult to leave the life she has because of Halit. Kemal marries Zehra Argun, Yıldız's stepdaughter and Halit's daughter from his first wife, which disappoints Yıldız. Later, she successfully sends him away.
Ender's first love Kaya and his sister, Şahika are introduced. Halit is impressed by Şahika and her undeniable beauty and falls for her. Yıldız is pregnant at that time. Halit kicks her out of the house and she starts living in a village.
Ender and Kaya's son Yiğit, of whom Ender and Kaya are both unaware because Kaya never knew of Ender's pregnancy and Ender had given him for adoption when he was born, starts working for Şahika. He pushes Ender into the sea.
Zeynep and Alihan get married and leave for America.
Ender and Yıldız become friends against Şahika. Yıldız names her son Halit Can and divorces Halit. Yıldız experiments with new career options, doing a weather show on TV and starts a project of producing apple puree using her grandmother's recipe. It turns out Şahika is working for Nadir who is Halit's enemy and he also becomes a partner in the company. Then Halit loses all of his money and shares and is forced to live with Sıtkı. Later, Şahika kills Nadir by poisoning him, and during his funeral shows up as his wife and winning all of his fortune. Ender marries Kaya, they also have 23 years old son. The season ends with Halit regaining his fortune and becoming Sahika's partner Holding Argun. Yıldız falls for Kerim, the director in Argun Holding hired by Şahika.
Kaya divorces Ender. Halit marries Ender again because thanks to her he knew that Yıldız was cheating on him with Kerim. Halit dies after a scuffle with Yıldız, Ender and Şahika and his funeral is held the next day. Yıldız marries Çağatay, whose father HasanAli becomes a partner in the company. HasanAli kicks Ender and Şahika out of the company and they become poor. During this time they help each other. Later, they join the company back, Şahika marries HasanAli and later is sadly and undeservingly killed by Cansu, a spy hired by Ender and Şahika to live with HasanAli and give them inside information about him. The season ends with a bomb blast in HasanAli's house where he is present along with Ender, Yıldız and Zehra who unfortunately dies with HasanAli.
Çağatay cheats on Yıldız with Kumru, a model and their neighbour. Yıldız is disheartened after she learns of this. She starts making her own shampoo and wins an award for it. At the ceremony, she publicly disgraces Çağatay and Kumru. She divorces Çağatay and marries Doğan, Kumru's father, this is a paper marriage to teach a lesson to Kumru and Çağatay. Kumru leaves Çağatay on their wedding day, thanks to Ender,when she learns he is only with her to take revenge on Doğan. Handan, Doğan's ex-wife returns and manages to win her daughter Kumru's heart and becomes a partner in the company. Kumru falls in love with Ekin, the son of Sami Onder, Doğan's enemy. Ekin has been sought out by Ender and Cagatay for his shares,in order to take down Doğan. Ekin is also hired by Handan to kill Doğan but the situation turns and the latter knocks him out and has his henchman drug him and leave him in a river as if he'd drowned. However, Cagatay saves him and they team up. The season ends with a car accident planned by Doğan to kill Çağatay in which Çağatay dies.
Yıldız, upon learning Doğan's involvement in the car accident, complained against him and he was sent to prison. The season starts with a 2-year time lapse. Doğan and Yıldız's daughter Yıldız Su is born while Doğan is still in prison. Later, he is freed and him and Ender team up against Yıldız. Zeynep returns from the United States after divorcing Alihan and being married to someone else. She then marries Engin, Handan's poor turned rich brother. Kumru, Handan and Zeynep fall for doctor Selim, but he loves Kumru, so he stops his relation with Handan, her mom. After everything Kumru went through, Kumru is pretending that her name is Ezgi and lies about being poor because she wanted Selim to love her for being her, not because she’s rich. Doğan discovers his ex-wife Handan's relation with Selim, so he with Handan tries to stop Kumru & Selim's love. Kumru gets pregnant, but misunderstanding Selim's relation with Zeynep, she gets jealous and rejects his love, and she lies to everybody that Caner is the father of their child. Selim fights to regain Kumru but fails; he dies in a conflict with Doğan. Kumru and Caner get married. Doğan and Yıldız resolve their problems and get married.
At the end, Doğan dies while playing with Yıldız Su, Asuman, Emir and Sedai get married, and Kumru has another baby.
Finally, Ender and Yıldız live happily and rich.