Six siblings, one absent mother, and a father who drinks away whatever stability is left — Bizim Hikaye turns a crowded Istanbul household into the center of a long-running Turkish family drama.
What is Bizim Hikaye about?
Filiz is barely out of her teens when she becomes the only adult in the house in every way that matters. Her mother is gone, her father Fikri drinks through what little money the family has, and five younger brothers and sisters depend on her to hold the household together in one of Istanbul's poorer neighborhoods. The siblings lean on each other, trading chores and small kindnesses to get through each week, and Filiz has long since decided that romance is a luxury she cannot afford. That resolve is tested by Barış, a young man who keeps showing up for Filiz and her family without being asked, patiently working to earn a place in her guarded life. The series is an adaptation of the internationally known format Shameless, relocated to a Turkish setting and built around the particular pressures of poverty, family duty, and pride in a specific Istanbul community, rather than simply reproducing the original beat for beat.
About the cast
Hazal Kaya leads as Filiz, with Burak Deniz as Barış and Reha Özcan as their father Fikri. Yağız Can Konyalı, Zeynep Selimoğlu, Alp Akar, Ömer Sevgi, and Mehmetcan Mincinözlü round out the younger siblings who make up the rest of the household. Director Koray Kerimoğlu keeps the ensemble at the center of the show, using the size of the family as both a source of comedy and a constant source of strain.
Context & significance
Bizim Hikaye arrived in 2017 as part of a wave of Turkish television built on adapted international formats, translating a story about American urban poverty into the texture of a specific Istanbul neighborhood. The show mixes broad family comedy with genuinely difficult material — addiction, financial precarity, and the weight placed on an eldest daughter — without settling into either mode permanently. That tonal range, together with the size of the cast, is part of what let the series run across multiple seasons.
Watching Bizim Hikaye on Ktime
Bizim Hikaye is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it can be watched either way depending on preference. Reading about the show and browsing episodes is free and requires no account; starting to watch itself just needs a quick, free K-Time login. The platform's Farsi-language interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to move around the catalog and follow a long-running family series like this one from the first episode onward.