Director: Ozan Uzunoglu
Justice delivered outside any courtroom drives Cirak, a 2024 Turkish action-crime series built around a hired operative whose employer answers to no one.
What is Cirak about?
The premise opens far from home: a security job protecting a diamond company's interests in Angola, the kind of assignment that pays well and asks few questions. When that contract ends, the operative returns to Turkey and keeps working for the same employer — a company that has quietly appointed itself judge and enforcer, taking on cases the legal system won't touch or can't finish. Each new assignment pulls him deeper into a gray zone where the targets aren't always clearly guilty and the company's own motives aren't always clean either. Cirak moves at the pace of its genre, alternating tense confrontations with the slower material of a man weighing what he's willing to do for a paycheck versus what he actually believes is right. The Angola backstory keeps surfacing, coloring how he reads every job that follows.
Cast & crew
Ozan Akbaba leads the series, with Damla Sönmez, Mehmet Özgür, Barış Yalçın, Erol Babaoğlu, Cansu Kurgun, Eren Hacısalihoğlu, and Ali Savaşçı rounding out the cast under Ozan Uzunoglu's direction.
Context & significance
Released in 2024, Cirak fits the current run of Turkish crime series that trade courtroom procedure for private enforcement, following a lone operator whose loyalty to his employer is tested case by case rather than resolved in a single arc. Its short episode length keeps momentum high, favoring compact, mission-driven storytelling over the sprawling multi-thread plotting common to longer Turkish dramas.
Where & how to watch
Cirak is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, presented in a Farsi-language interface designed for Iranian audiences abroad who want crime dramas without hunting for reliable translations elsewhere. Browsing the show's page costs nothing; a K-Time account login is required to start watching, and the whole run can be streamed episode by episode once signed in.