A nightclub owner from a large, tangled family and the psychologist who walks into his life anyway — that collision sits at the center of Aile, a Turkish crime drama built to keep both characters, and the viewer, off balance.
What is Aile about?
Aile centers on Aslan, the son of a sprawling family who runs a nightclub and carries himself as a sharp, guarded, and hard-to-read man. When psychologist Devin enters his orbit, the show pulls two very different worlds together and lets the tension between them drive the story forward. Set in Turkey and released in 2023, the series works across action, crime, drama, and romance at once, using Aslan's family ties and his double life as the engine for episode after episode of shifting alliances and unresolved history.
About the cast
Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ and Serenay Sarıkaya headline the series, with Nejat İşler, Canan Ergüder, Ushan Çakır, Umutcan Ütebay, Yüsra Geyik, and Ecem Simge Yurdatapan filling out an ensemble large enough to match the show's family-and-underworld scope. Directed by Ahmet Katıksız, the show is built around a cast that spans generations of one household plus the outsiders who cross into it.
Context & significance
Aile belongs to a wave of Turkish television that pairs glossy production with crime-family plotting, a genre that has traveled well beyond Turkey's own audience in recent years. With installments that run to feature length and beyond, episodes sit far closer to a film than to standard television, giving the family drama and the crime elements room to sit side by side instead of competing for time. That length is typical of the format the show comes from, and it shapes how slowly relationships in Aile are allowed to unfold.
Watching Aile on Ktime
Aile is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, so the original Turkish performances stay intact while the story is fully readable in Farsi. A free K-Time account login is all that's required to start watching; the show's page itself can be browsed without signing in. K-Time's subtitle library and interface are built around Farsi-speaking viewers, which makes long-form series like this one easy to follow episode to episode.