A wedding that never happens sets off seven years of silence, a kidnapping, and a return to a family reckoning in this 2026 Turkish drama, Sevdan Bir Ates.
What is Sevdan Bir Ates about?
Hours before Mirza and Leyla are due to marry, Leyla vanishes without a word, and the years that follow bring no explanation. Just as Mirza starts to move forward and plans a wedding to Destan, his infant nephew Kerem is taken by his own father, a man involved in trafficking. The search pulls Mirza to Aleppo, where finding Kerem also means confronting the brother-in-law who took him and, unexpectedly, crossing paths again with Leyla. Alongside her is six-year-old Hüma, a girl Mirza does not yet realize is his own daughter. What follows is a fight to bring Leyla and Hüma home from Syria while an equally difficult confrontation with his own family waits back in Cappadocia.
About the cast
Murat Ünalmış and Özge Özaçar anchor the series, with Beyza Karabacak, Gökçe Eyüboğlu, Sitare Akbaş, Taner Rumeli, Sezin Bozacı, and Yeşim Gül Akşar filling out a cast built around a story that spans two countries and two timelines.
Context & significance
Sevdan Bir Ates is a 2026 Turkish production directed by Murat Saraçoglu and Sedat Kahraman, and it belongs to the wave of long-form Turkish family dramas that have found a steady audience well beyond Turkey's borders, including among Persian-speaking viewers drawn to the genre's mix of melodrama, suspense, and generational conflict. The Cappadocia and Aleppo settings give the series a wider geographic reach than a typical single-city family saga.
Watching Sevdan Bir Ates on Ktime
Sevdan Bir Ates is available on K-Time with a free account login, part of a catalogue built around a Farsi-language interface for viewers who follow Turkish drama alongside Persian-language programming.