Returning home rarely closes old wounds; in Sahipli, it opens them wider, blending small-town drama with a horror undertone that follows a doctor back to the place she tried to leave behind.
What is Sahipli about?
Büşra has finally become a doctor, and her first act after finishing her training is to return to the hometown she grew up in. There she meets Selim, a local teacher who, like her, is still living with the marks of something unresolved from the past. What begins as a familiar homecoming story turns into something stranger and darker as the two are drawn together, each carrying wounds the other can sense but not fully name. The series treats their shared history less as a mystery to be solved quickly and more as a slow unraveling, letting the horror elements of the story creep in around the edges of an otherwise grounded small-town setting rather than announcing themselves outright.
About the cast
Funda Güray and Seda Türkmen anchor the cast, with Baran Akbulut, Sait Genay, Ferit Kaya, Nevin Efe, Sebahat Adalar, and Koray Şahinbaş in supporting roles. Alper Mestçi directs the series, guiding a cast tasked with grounding an unsettling, past-haunted story in everyday small-town life.
Context & significance
Sahipli arrived in 2017 as a Turkish series that blends drama and horror, a combination less common on Turkish television than straightforward romance or crime, and its hour-long episodes give it room to build dread gradually rather than lean on shock. Set in a small hometown rather than a major city, the series draws on the particular unease of a place where everyone already knows everyone's history, which sharpens both the drama of Büşra and Selim's reunion and the horror threaded through it.
Watching Sahipli on Ktime
Sahipli is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow both the drama and the horror elements of the story without losing their tone. The show's page can be browsed for free; watching the episodes requires only a K-Time account login, part of a platform built around a Farsi-first streaming experience for Iranian viewers abroad.