Filinta is a Turkish detective fiction television drama series created for TRT1 by Yusuf Esenkal and Serdar Öğretici.

The series, the first detective TV fiction set in the Ottoman period,[1][2] premiered on TRT1 in Turkey on December 23, 2014.

[4] According to The Hollywood Reporter, a source described Filinta as "like a crude Ottoman Downton Abbey".

[4] In 2014 Bobby Roth directed extra scenes for the series.

[5] "The series' set is one ot Europe's largest television sets and includes an exact replica of the old city of Pera, including its tram; it was built on a 40,000 m2 set (on a 300,000 m2 plot) in Izmit"[6] The characters of Zeyrek and Çeyrek reappear in he spinoff comedy series Zeyrek ile Çeyrek .