A body nobody can explain, a detective who refuses to look away, and a psychologist who understands why people break: Alikara is a 2026 Turkish crime mini-series directed by Hülya Gezer, with Miray Daner and Halit Özgür Sarı leading the cast.
What is Alikara about?
An unidentified corpse turns up, and the case lands with Chief Inspector Deniz. The forensic trail is thin, so the investigation leans on a second kind of expertise: Işık, a psychologist, is brought in to read the people around the crime rather than the crime scene itself. Working side by side, the inspector and the psychologist find that every witness and suspect carries old wounds, and that the present-day murder cannot be separated from traumas that were buried years earlier. What begins as a routine identification becomes a slow, draining pursuit of someone who has left no name behind. Across its episodes the series keeps two questions running in parallel: who is responsible, and what happened long ago that made this killing possible.
About the cast
Miray Daner and Halit Özgür Sarı anchor the ensemble, supported by Sezin Akbaşoğulları, Serpil Gül, Fatih Al, Gökhan Soylu, Can Atak and Bahadır Vatanoğlu. The brief does not assign roles, so viewers should expect a compact cast in which several performers share the dramatic load rather than a single star vehicle. Hülya Gezer directs, and the mini-series format gives the cast room to build characters across a short, tightly plotted arc rather than a sprawling multi-season run.
Context & significance
Turkish television has become a major exporter of serialized drama, and crime stories with a psychological angle are one of its newer strands. Alikara belongs to that strand: a mini-series structure, episodes of roughly forty-nine minutes, and a premise that pairs police procedure with clinical insight into trauma. For Persian-speaking audiences, Turkish series have long been a familiar part of the viewing diet, and this title sits comfortably alongside the thrillers and family sagas that make up much of the catalogue. Its mini-series length also makes it an easy commitment for viewers who want a complete story without a long-term investment.
Watching Alikara on Ktime
Alikara streams on K-Time, where it is listed in the original Turkish; the brief does not indicate a Persian dub or Persian subtitles for this title. You can read this page freely, but playback requires a K-Time account login. The service is built for the Persian-speaking diaspora, with a Farsi interface and a catalogue arranged for Iranian viewers abroad.