Son Yaz turns a prosecutor's old case into a live threat inside his own home, opening in 2021 as a Turkish crime drama built on obligation nobody asked for.
What is Son Yaz about?
The premise starts years after a conviction: a public prosecutor once sent an organized-crime leader to prison, and now needs that same man's testimony to bring down the wider network he ran. The price is protection — the boss's own son, delivered into the prosecutor's household as an unwanted guest. What follows plays out less as a courtroom drama than a domestic one, as an outsider from a dangerous world is folded into a gated seaside community in Izmir's Cesme district, unsettling neighbors who had no say in the arrangement. Layered against the central deal is a marriage already coming apart, adding strain to a plot that never lets its central figure operate with a clear head. Crime and family tension trade the foreground scene by scene, with the closed community itself functioning almost as a character — a place built on the appearance of order that the story steadily tests.
About the cast
The series is carried by an ensemble including Ata Nedim Arman, Can Sarp Ikiler, Arif Piskin, and Halil Babur, playing the mix of prosecutorial, criminal, and neighborhood roles the setup demands. Turkish crime dramas in this vein tend to lean on ensemble chemistry over a single lead, and Son Yaz's cast list reflects that structure, with room for the household of Cesme residents to matter as much as the two men whose old case drives the plot.
Context & significance
Son Yaz arrived in Turkish drama's crowded 2021 crime-and-family slate, a genre corner known for stretching a single moral compromise across an entire season rather than resolving it quickly. The choice to set most of the fallout inside a residential compound rather than a courtroom or precinct is distinctive: it turns legal drama into a study of proximity, where people who would never otherwise share space are forced to live near the consequences of a case most of them know nothing about.
Watching Son Yaz on Ktime
Son Yaz streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can watch it in Farsi or with the original Turkish audio and Farsi text. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to start watching — the site itself is open to browse and read without logging in, and the Farsi-language interface is built for Persian-speaking audiences streaming from anywhere.