Aziz follows a man forced out of the only life he has known after a killing tied to his family's honor upends his household in Ottoman-era Turkey.
What is Aziz about?
The series opens with Aziz Payidar leaving behind both his great love Dilruba and his father's house after a French lieutenant dies at his hands. Exile scatters the family's fortunes and tests every bond Aziz built before he fled. When enough time passes for the incident to fade from memory, he returns to the city, only to find that neither the house nor the people in it sat still while he was gone. Rivalries reassert themselves, old debts resurface, and Dilruba's own position has shifted in ways Aziz has to reckon with before he can claim any of it back. The 2021 Turkish drama builds its tension out of period detail as much as plot, using costume, class and family hierarchy to frame a homecoming that is never simple.
About the cast
Murat Yildirim leads as Aziz, with Damla Sönmez as Dilruba anchoring the emotional core opposite him. Simay Barlas, Güven Murat Akpınar, Suzan Kardeş, Ayten Soykök, Elif Sönmez and Meral Çetinkaya round out a large ensemble typical of Turkish period drama, filling out the rival households and extended family that give the story its texture.
Context & significance
Director Recai Karagöz sets the series in a late-Ottoman world where a single act of violence can reroute an entire family's standing, a period backdrop Turkish television returns to often because it lets personal drama carry real social weight. The 120-minute episode format is standard for Turkish network drama and gives each installment room for multiple subplots to develop alongside the central return story.
Watching Aziz on Ktime
Aziz streams on K-Time with Persian subtitles, so Iranian diaspora viewers can follow the Turkish dialogue in Farsi while watching in the original language. A free K-Time account is all that is needed to start the series; no separate purchase or trial period applies. The platform's Farsi-first interface makes browsing and resuming episodes straightforward for Persian-speaking households.