Çalıkuşu (English: The Wren) is a 2013 Turkish romantic drama television series aired on Kanal D that is based on the novel of the same name for the fourth time.
Her father, a military officer, entrusts her to her maternal aunt, Besime, and her husband, Seyfettin.
Selim is instructed by Levent, his stepfather and an enemy of Seyfettin's family, to date Feride; the former quickly falls in love with her.
Necmiye finds out his plan after eating a poisoned fondant herself, becoming ill, and then giving the rest to their chickens, which are killed.
Kamran enters and mistakes it for a sexual relationship between the two, and ends his friendship with Selim.
Kamran and Yusuf, a servant, manage to find her and capture Selim, who escapes and returns to see Feride, but is killed by Necmiye.
Kamran takes the blame and Feride sells the mansion to a rich woman named Azelia in order to pay the blood money.
After months of searching, Kamran finds the duo in an inn and tells Feride to meet him at the train station the next day to return home with him so they can be a family again.