Director: Mehmet Ada Öztekin
A chef starts over in a new country and finds that the kitchen is the easiest part of the adjustment in Dehset Bey, a 2025 Turkish romance from director Mehmet Ada Öztekin.
What is Dehset Bey about?
Seref Bey, an Albanian chef who is warm-hearted one moment and immovably stubborn the next, packs up his knives and his routines and relocates to Turkey hoping for a clean slate. The move does not go quietly. New colleagues test his patience, an unfamiliar city rearranges his sense of home, and a woman who refuses to be charmed by his cooking alone slowly upends his plans for a simple, uncomplicated life. Barış Arduç and Tuba Büyüküstün lead a cast that plays the setup for both its comic friction and its softer, sincerer beats, letting the food and the flirtation build side by side rather than treating either as filler.
Cast & crew
Barış Arduç anchors Seref Bey with a mix of bravado and quiet insecurity that keeps the character likable even when he is at his most hard-headed, while Tuba Büyüküstün gives his romantic foil enough independence that the pairing never feels like a foregone conclusion. Saygın Soysal, Musa Uzunlar, and Onur Özaydın round out a supporting bench that carries much of the film's comic timing, and Yıldıray Şahinler and Hilmi Cem İntepe add texture to the world Seref is trying to fit into.
Context & significance
Dehset Bey arrives as part of a wave of Turkish romantic dramas built around a fish-out-of-water premise, pairing broad workplace comedy with a slower-burn love story. At 139 minutes, the film gives its relationships room to develop gradually instead of rushing the central couple together, which is consistent with how director Mehmet Ada Öztekin has paced his previous romantic features. An IMDb rating of 7.0 places it comfortably among the better-received entries in this style of Turkish streaming release.
Where & how to watch
Dehset Bey is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login; no purchase or trial signup is required to browse the page itself. The K-Time interface is built around Farsi navigation and search, so Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora can find and queue titles like this one without switching languages mid-search, even when the film itself, as here, has no Persian dub or subtitle track yet.