Director: Başak Soysal
"Dayton" splits its attention between rebuilding a nation and rebuilding a family, tracing the aftermath of the Bosnian war through two lives pulled in opposite directions.
What is Dayton about?
Alija spends his days on reconstruction, part of the slow, grinding effort to hold together a Bosnia left shattered by years of conflict. His work sits at the center of a country trying to function again after devastation that touched nearly every community. Running alongside that public rebuilding is a much smaller, more painful story: a family split apart by the genocide, struggling through the brutal, unstable conditions the war left behind. The series moves between these two threads, using Alija's efforts as a backdrop for the quieter, harder question of what happens to the people left standing once the fighting stops. It is a story about labor and loss existing in the same frame, neither one fully resolved by the other.
Cast & crew
Levent Öktem carries much of the series' emotional load alongside Mehmet Bilge Aslan and Başak Daşman, whose storylines intersect with the fractured family at the heart of the drama. Şehsuvar Aktaş, Şükrü Türen, Ozan Kaya Oktu, Çağla Naz Kargı, and Züleyha Yıldız round out a cast tasked with grounding a heavy historical subject in individual, human terms, under director Başak Soysal.
Context & significance
Set in the years following the Bosnian war, the series treats its historical setting with weight rather than spectacle, focusing on reconstruction and the genocide's lingering toll on ordinary families. Turkish television has periodically turned to Balkan history for material with strong ties to shared regional memory, and this drama sits within that tradition.
Where & how to watch
Dayton streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making its history-driven story accessible to Farsi-speaking audiences from the opening scene. There is no barrier to browsing the page itself, and watching requires only a free K-Time login, part of a catalog shaped around the Iranian diaspora's viewing habits.