Ertugrul.

A TURKISH television series, 'Resurrection: Ertugrul' has taken our nation by storm. The series is being shown on PTV Home and Netflix with dubbing in Urdu and English subtitles. It has touched the heart and souls of Pakistanis - who are glued to their TV sets - like no other series.

'Ertugrul' has a strong storyline and narrates the events that helped a Muslim nation build one of the strongest empires of the world. The Ottoman Empire, created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia and Asia Minor grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries.

The Ottoman period spanned more than 600 years and came to an end at the end of World War One when it was replaced by the Turkish Republic and parts of its various provinces became independent successor states in southeastern Europe and the Middle East.

At its height, the empire consisted, in Europe, of the present-day countries like Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the entire former Yugoslavia, Hungary, parts of Poland and Ukraine, including the Crimean peninsula, Georgia and Azerbaijan and in the Middle East the Arabian peninsula, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

The TV series is receiving a lot of criticism on the excuse that it is foreign content and has taken away prime time...