Custody disputes make for a familiar dramatic engine, but this series stretches the fight over two children across a full season rather than resolving it in a handful of episodes.
What is Gulperi about?
Gulperi follows a mother working to win back custody of her children, with Nurgül Yeşilçay in the title role opposite Timuçin Esen and Tarık Papuçcuoğlu. Rather than framing the custody battle as a single legal proceeding, the series treats it as a drawn-out personal struggle, tracking how the separation reshapes the relationships around Gulperi over time. The three leads carry most of the dramatic weight, with the supporting conflict built around what each of them is willing to give up, or fight for, to reach a different outcome.
About the cast
Nurgül Yeşilçay takes the lead as Gulperi, with Timuçin Esen and Tarık Papuçcuoğlu forming the rest of the show's core triangle. It's a small, tightly focused cast by the standards of a full-season Turkish drama, which keeps the story centred on the three of them rather than spreading attention across a wider ensemble. That smaller scale also means viewers spend more time with each of the three leads than a wider ensemble drama would typically allow.
Context & significance
The series is a Turkish production carrying a 2018 catalogue year, running roughly two hours per instalment, and sits within the family-drama tradition that has long travelled well to Persian-speaking audiences. Its focus on a custody fight rather than romance or workplace intrigue sets it apart from much of the Turkish drama K-Time carries, leaning closer to domestic melodrama than the lighter romantic serials more common in the genre. The result plays more like a slow-burn family saga than a fast-moving soap, giving the custody fight room to breathe across many episodes instead of compressing it into a handful of confrontations.
Watching Gulperi on Ktime
K-Time streams Gulperi with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can watch in whichever form suits them, and the site's Farsi interface makes it straightforward to browse the rest of its Turkish drama selection. All that's needed to start watching is a free K-Time account login.