A police detective's private code of justice collides with two younger idealists who think they share it in Saygi, the Turkish crime drama spun off from Behzat C.

What is Saygi about?

Ercüment carries the same restless distrust of official channels that made Behzat C a cult favorite, working the edges of the law to chase corruption he believes the system will never touch on its own. His path crosses with two young people who claim to be moving toward the same goal, and the series spends its early episodes testing whether that shared purpose is real or just useful cover. Set against Istanbul's underworld of bribery, blackmail and quiet institutional rot, Saygi follows Ercüment as he tries to work out whether his new allies are partners in the same fight or complications he has not yet priced in. Each case chips away at the line between vigilante justice and the kind the courts are supposed to deliver, and the show never pretends that line stays fixed once money and old grudges enter the picture.

About the cast

Nejat İşler leads as Ercüment, playing him with the same weary conviction that carried the original Behzat C. Miray Daner and Boran Kuzum take the roles of the two young allies whose loyalty the season keeps testing, with Erkan Can, Rojda Demirer and Tansu Biçer rounding out a supporting cast built for a slow-burn procedural rather than a flashy one.

Context & significance

Saygi arrived in 2020 as a direct spin-off of Behzat C: Bir Ankara Polisiyesi, one of Turkish television's most influential crime dramas, and it inherits that show's interest in flawed men operating just outside institutional lines. The genre mix of crime, drama and thriller keeps the show closer to procedural tension than melodrama, and its reputation among Turkish crime-drama fans has carried it well beyond its home broadcast run.

Watching Saygi on Ktime

Saygi streams on K-Time with Persian subtitles, so the dialogue-heavy interrogations and courtroom-adjacent standoffs land in Farsi without losing their pacing. A free K-Time account is all that is needed to start watching, and the platform's Farsi-first interface makes it easy to pick the series back up episode by episode.