Two people who organize their lives by completely different rules end up sharing the same roof in Dolunay, a 2017 Turkish series built on that friction.
What is Dolunay about?
Ferit Aslan runs his professional life with rigid precision and expects the same discipline everywhere else, down to how his household is managed. Nazlı, a gastronomy student, has none of that luxury: she needs steady income right away to cover the costs of the home she shares with her sister and a close friend, and her stubborn streak makes it hard for her to hold down a job that asks her to compromise. When circumstances push these two opposites into daily contact, the series builds its comedy and its drama from how differently they solve the same problems.
About the cast
Can Yaman and Özge Gürel lead the central pairing, with Özlem Türay, Alara Bozbey, Yeşim Kalkan, Murat Cen, Hakan Kurtaş and İlayda Akdoğan filling out a supporting cast drawn from familiar names in Turkish television drama. The size of that ensemble reflects how much the series leans on extended family and friend circles around its two leads to keep the comedy moving between the bigger romantic beats.
Context & significance
Dolunay sits in the drama-comedy hybrid that Turkish television leaned on heavily through the mid-2010s, pairing a workplace-adjacent premise with lighter comic beats rather than pure melodrama. Produced in Turkey with episodes running around two hours, the format gave the will-they-won't-they dynamic between its two leads room to breathe across a full season rather than resolving it in a handful of episodes, a pacing choice that became something of a house style for the genre. That slower build also let secondary characters, including Nazlı's sister and close friend, develop their own arcs alongside the central pairing instead of fading into the background.
Watching Dolunay on Ktime
Dolunay streams on K-Time behind a free account login, with no purchase needed to browse this page or the wider catalog. Episodes play in their original Turkish, and K-Time's Farsi interface keeps navigation, search and watchlists simple for Persian-speaking viewers.