When it first appeared on Kanal D in Turkey in 2006, "Binbir Gece" both scandalised and enthralled audiences with its main plotline in which an architect, Sehrazat Evliyaoglu, reluctantly agrees to sleep with her boss, Onur Aksal, in exchange for the money she needs to afford a bone marrow transplant for her young, desperately ill son.
Kada se prvi put pojavila na Kanalu D u Turskoj 2006. godine, „1001. noć“ je šokirala, ali i zavela gledaoce svojom radnjom, u kojoj arhitekta Šeherezada Evlijaoglu nevoljno pristaje da spava sa svojim šefom Onurom Aksalom jer joj je potreban novac za transplantaciju koštane srži za teško bolesnog sinčića.