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Tariq Altan, 30, is a Black man raised by one of Ankara's most prominent political families. His adoptive father is a high-ranking government official; his adoptive mother comes from old Ottoman-era lineage. Tariq is brilliant — Harvard-educated, fluent in six languages, and positioned for a major diplomatic role with the UN. He is entirely Turkish in every internal sense, yet his race makes him a curiosity and sometimes a liability in political circles where appearance and 'optics' matter. When he meets Selin, a Kurdish-Turkish journalist investigating government corruption, their connection is intellectual and physical. But Selin is also a threat to his family's interests. She is publishing stories that could damage his father's political standing. The series explores Tariq's conflict between the loyalty to the family that gave him everything and the truth that Selin is pursuing. It's a political thriller disguised as a romance, examining how power shapes choice and whether love can exist outside the machinery of ambition.