Director: Deni Jordan, Ozgur Onurme
An ordinary shift behind the wheel turns into a slow unraveling in Asaf, a 2024 Turkish drama-thriller about how quickly a single bad night can rewrite a life.
What is Asaf about?
He drives for a ride-hailing app, estranged from his own family, picking up passengers to get through the day rather than build a future. One accident during a routine fare pulls him into an escalating chain of trouble, and the people who step in to help turn out to want something from him in return. Instead of one clean crisis, the series builds pressure gradually, showing how a person can be pushed further from safety with each choice that looks reasonable in the moment. Set across Turkey, the show leans on close, character-driven scenes rather than large action set pieces, following its central driver as the walls around him narrow episode by episode.
Cast & crew
Cihangir Ceyhan leads as the driver at the center of the story, with Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Burçin Terzioğlu, Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Fatih Al, Çağdaş Onur Öztürk, Uygar Özçelik, and Serra Arıtürk filling out the surrounding cast of family, associates, and the figures who draw him further in.
Context & significance
Asaf comes from Turkey rather than Iran, and its episodes run a brisk 45 minutes each, closer in pace to a limited series than a long-running drama; it sits in K-Time's Turkish drama-thriller lineup alongside other regional crime stories popular with the platform's diaspora audience.
Where & how to watch
Asaf streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles, giving Persian-speaking viewers both ways to follow the series. Anyone can read this page without logging in; only playing an episode calls for a free K-Time account, and the platform's Farsi-first menus make it easy to move on to the next episode or a similar title afterward.