Two daughters, two very different paths, and a mother determined to profit from whichever one pays off first — that tug-of-war sits at the center of Fazilet Hanim.
What is Fazilet Hanim about?
Fazilet keeps her sights fixed on money, and she sees the surest route to it in her younger daughter Ece's looks and modeling potential, pushing her toward that career with a single-minded focus. Her older daughter Hazan wants something else entirely: a career as a sports coach, built on her own terms and pointedly away from her mother's plans for the family. That divide — one daughter steered toward an industry built on image, the other pulling away into a field she chose herself — creates friction that runs through the whole household, made sharper when Hazan falls for a wealthy, spoiled man whose world sits far outside anything she has known. The series follows both daughters as their choices pull the family in opposite directions.
About the cast
Nazan Kesal plays the title role of Fazilet, with Deniz Baysal and Afra Saraçoğlu as her daughters; Çağlar Ertuğrul, Mahir Günşiray, Tolga Güleç, Alp Navruz, and Hazal Türesan round out the surrounding cast across the family's wider circle.
Context & significance
Fazilet Hanim ve Kizlari premiered in 2017 under director Gökçen Usta, part of a strong run of Turkish family dramas built around a strong-willed matriarch and daughters pulling in different directions. The generational split at its core — ambition measured in looks and money against ambition measured in a career built through hard work — is a familiar hook in Turkish television, and it gives the series a way to explore family pressure without leaning on a single plot twist to carry every episode. Its long-running structure, typical of Turkish prime-time drama, allows both daughters' arcs room to develop across many hours.
Watching Fazilet Hanim on Ktime
Fazilet Hanim streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers the choice of either format. Watching only requires signing in with a free K-Time account — no purchase, no trial period, just a login and the episode starts. The platform's Farsi interface is built with the Iranian diaspora in mind, making a long family drama like this one easy to follow from the first episode onward.