A man drives his car off a cliff meaning to end his life, and instead ends up rewriting four lives at once — his own included. That collision is the engine of Carpisma, a 2018 Turkish drama.
What is Carpisma about?
Kadir Adalı has lost his wife and daughter to a terrorist attack, and the grief has taken him to a place where he decides to drive off the road rather than keep living with it. The crash he causes doesn't kill him, and it doesn't stay contained to his own car either — three other people are pulled into the wreckage of that moment, and their paths become permanently tangled with his. From there, Carpisma follows how a single act meant to end one story instead opens several new ones, tracking grief, guilt, and the strange debts people owe each other after surviving the same disaster together. The series builds its drama around the aftermath rather than the accident itself, watching how four strangers work out what they now mean to one another.
About the cast
Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ leads as Kadir, joined by Erkan Can, Elçin Sangu, Melisa Asli Pamuk, Hakan Kurtas, and İsmail Demirci, an ensemble that carries the weight of a story built on interlocking survivors rather than a single protagonist.
Context & significance
Carpisma premiered in 2018 and belongs to a run of Turkish television dramas that use a single traumatic event as a structural hinge, splitting the narrative across everyone caught in its blast radius rather than following one central figure straight through. Terrorism and its aftermath sit in the background as historical and emotional context rather than as commentary, framing loss without turning the show into a political statement. Audiences have responded well, with the series holding a standing that places it among the more warmly received Turkish dramas of its year.
Watching Carpisma on Ktime
Carpisma is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the series in their own language rather than relying on the original Turkish track. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to log in and start watching, and the platform's Farsi interface is built specifically for the Iranian diaspora, on phone, browser, or television alike.