A plane crash rewrites everything for one Turkish family in Baba, a 2022 drama built around brothers who have been estranged for years.
What is Baba about?
At the center of the story is Emin Saruhanli, whose long-running falling-out with his brother Mehmet Ali has hardened into a permanent distance between them. That distance is upended when a plane crash forces the family back into contact, pulling old wounds, buried loyalties, and unresolved responsibilities back to the surface. Rather than a single confrontation, the series treats the aftermath as a slow reckoning — the brothers, and the people around them, have to decide what they still owe each other once circumstance leaves them with no way to keep avoiding it. The show leans into extended-family drama, giving the fallout room to ripple outward through multiple households over its run.
About the cast
Haluk Bilginer anchors the cast as part of a lineup that includes Zeynep Tuğçe Bayat, Tolga Sarıtaş, Özge Özaçar, and Ayda Aksel. The ensemble spans generations, which suits a story about a rift that has had years to calcify and a family now forced to reckon with it together.
Context & significance
Baba sits in the tradition of Turkish family drama built around a single defining rupture — here, a sibling estrangement — and the slow work of repair once outside events make avoidance impossible. With a total runtime well over twenty hours across its run, it has the space to develop secondary characters and subplots rather than resolving the central conflict quickly, which is typical of the format and part of what gives long-running Turkish dramas their loyal followings. It holds a moderate audience rating, reflecting a well-regarded but not universally acclaimed entry in a crowded genre.
Watching Baba on Ktime
Baba is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting viewers follow the family drama in Farsi audio or read along in Farsi over the original performances. Browsing the page costs nothing; watching only requires a free K-Time account login, on a platform built with a Farsi-first interface for Persian-speaking viewers wherever they are.