Director: Çağatay Tosun
Yabani turns a single act of family rupture into years of consequence, following a boy stolen from a comfortable home into a childhood spent surviving on the streets before an adult return upends everyone he left behind.
What is Yabani about?
The 2023 Turkish drama opens with a kidnapping that tears a child away from a stable, well-off household and drops him into a rougher world where survival comes before comfort. Raised by circumstance rather than family, he grows into someone shaped by hardship, distance, and improvisation. Years later, he makes his way back to the home and relatives he barely remembers, and the series traces what happens when someone forged by the streets tries to slot back into a life built without him. Old wounds resurface, loyalties are tested, and the household he re-enters has to decide whether to accept the man he became or hold him to the child he once was. Director Çağatay Tosun keeps the focus on that friction between two versions of the same person, rather than on plot mechanics alone.
Cast & crew
Halit Özgür Sarı anchors the series in the lead role, with Simay Barlas, Yurdaer Okur, Dolunay Soysert, Osman Alkaş, Bertan Aslani, Ayşegül Ünsal, and Sezer Arıçay filling out the family and street-world circles that pull at him from opposite directions.
Context & significance
Yabani belongs to a strand of Turkish television that favors long-form family drama, where a single early event echoes across an entire season rather than resolving quickly. The series carries an IMDb rating of 6.9 and runs roughly 120 minutes per installment, giving each chapter room to sit with its characters rather than rush the reunion plot forward.
Where & how to watch
Yabani streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow either track. The page itself is free to read without an account; watching the series requires logging into a K-Time account, and the interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for the diaspora audience.