A civil dinner between a young schoolteacher and the father of one of her students curdles into tragedy in Yalanci, the 2021 Turkish drama series directed by Hülya Gezer, now streaming on K-Time with Persian dubbing and subtitles.
What is Yalanci about?
The series opens on what should be an ordinary evening: a teacher accepts an invitation to dine with a student's father, and both sides arrive expecting nothing more than pleasant conversation. Instead, the night ends in devastation for everyone at the table, and the fallout reshapes the rest of the story. In its aftermath, the young teacher refuses to let the matter rest quietly and instead pushes to hold the man responsible to account, even as the consequences of that single evening ripple outward into the wider community around the school. Yalanci builds its tension less from spectacle than from the slow unraveling of trust between people who believed they knew each other, tracking how one betrayal forces its characters to reconsider everything that came before it.
About the cast
The cast is led by Salih Bademci alongside Şahin Irmak, Murat Kılıç, Efsane Odag, Burçin Terzioğlu, Serkan Tınmaz, Cemal Toktas, and Hazal Türesan, an ensemble spread across the story's two colliding households and the community that surrounds them.
Context & significance
Yalanci arrived in 2021 as part of a wave of Turkish television willing to sit inside uncomfortable domestic territory rather than resolve it quickly, and its drama genre placement reflects a series more interested in consequence than in courtroom procedure. Turkish drama has built a substantial international following over the past decade, and Yalanci belongs to that tradition of long-form storytelling that lets a single incident expand across an entire season rather than closing it off in an episode.
Watching Yalanci on Ktime
Yalanci streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the series in either format. Watching requires only a free K-Time account login, and the platform's Farsi interface is built for Persian-speaking audiences across the diaspora looking for Turkish drama without a language barrier.