![]() Today, the show has aired more than 60 countries. The audience in all over the world embraced the show as well in addition to Balkan, Middle Eastern and Arabic countries. The fact that these countries lived under the hegemony of the Ottoman Empire for centuries has an undeniable effect in the success of the show in the Balkans. Magnificent Century gained enormous international success especially in Balkan countries like Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Macedonia. Especially people from Islamic roots were not really happy about how the series showed the Ottoman Empire. Apart from the government authorities, the controversy echoed among public as well. He condemned the producers and the writers of the show. ![]() Erdogan deprecated how the series portrayed Suleiman the Magnificent as a sultan who is very busy with his harem rather than his campaigns conquering land. The prime minister of the time, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, criticized the series as a "a push to demonstrate the history in a negative light". The reaction that the series got from the government of AKP (Justice and Development Party) turned the series into Magnificent Controversy at times. Political issues and the campaigns he set on were also shown in the series but the parts depicting the campaigns were the less enjoyed parts of the series as the ratings showed." You don't have a lot of information about the daily life of the sultans, how they behave to their wifes, how their daily life unfolds. The historical adviser of the show, Erhan Afyoncu, says "There are two parts in the series: reality and fiction. So, it wouldn't be inconvenient to call Magnificent Century a 16th century Game of Thrones. He takes his fair share of drama and intrigues thanks to his consort Roxelana (Hurrem Sultan). So you think an emperor of this kind, so powerful and feared, wouldn't have problems at his palace. Replicas of Hurrem Sultan's ring started to be sold everywhere. People got obsessed with series quickly, especially with Hurrem Sultan's jewelry. The Magnificent Century or Muhteşem Yüzyıl if we are to call it in Turkish became very popular from the day it first aired. Influenced by the vision of Alexander the Great, he was invincible and targeted to make the Ottoman Empire an empire of east and west. He ascended to the throne in 1520 and ruled the Ottoman Empire until his death in 1566. The tenth sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Suleiman I, is the longest reigning sultan of Ottoman history. Magnificent Century tells the life of Suleiman the Magnificent, also known as Kanuni (the Lawmaker), and a Ukranian slave girl's (Roxelana) rising to the power and becoming "Hurrem Sultan". Muhteşem Yüzyıl ( English: Magnificent Century, Urdu: Mera Sultan) is a Turkish historical TV drama written by Meral Okay and Yilmaz Sahin.
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