ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and Turkish producers have signed an agreement to make a TV series on the life of the famed 12th-century Muslim commander Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi, the Turkish side announced on Saturday.
The first sultan of Egypt and Syria and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, Salahuddin (1138-1193) led the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states in the Levant. After the battle of Hattin in 1187, he retook Jerusalem from the Crusaders who had conquered Palestine 88 years earlier.
The TV series will be produced by Pakistan's Ansari & Shah Films and Turkey's Akli Films.
"Contract signed between Akli Films and Ansari&Shah Films," Akli Films owner Emre Konuk said in a tweet. "May this international project, which will be prepared with the cooperation of Turkey and Pakistan, be beneficial to our country and our art world."
Akli Films said in a statement the three-season series will feature actors from Turkey and Pakistan, and will be shot in Turkey.
