Icerde is a 2016 Turkish series that sits between action-adventure and drama, and its engine is one piece of family history that refuses to stay buried. Two brothers, separated as children, end up years later inside the same police academy without either of them arranging it.
What is Icerde about?
It starts with a household coming apart in a single stretch of bad fortune. The father is sent to prison, and in the wake of that one of the sons is taken away from the family. The brothers grow up on separate roads, with no contact and no clear picture of what became of the other. Years pass, and by routes neither planned together, both arrive at the police academy at the same time. Everything after that collision is built on it: two men working out where the other has been, weighing the loyalties they already owe, and testing how much of a shared past can be said out loud without breaking something.
About the cast
The ensemble recorded for the series is Aras Bulut Iynemli, Damla Colbay, Bensu Soral, Mustafa Ugurlu, Nihal Koldas, Riza Kocaoglu, Cetin Tekindor and Cagatay Ulusoy. The material asks a particular restraint of them: long stretches where a character knows more than anyone else in the room and cannot say it. Direction is credited to Uluc Bayraktar.
Context & significance
Turkey's television industry has spent years shipping serialised drama well beyond its own borders, and this title belongs to the crime-and-family strand of that output rather than the romantic one. The catalogue lists a runtime of roughly two hours per instalment, standard for the format, which gives episodes room to hold several storylines at once. Reception was warm enough that the series travelled widely with dubbing and subtitling in a number of languages.
Watching Icerde on Ktime
The series is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, and this page is free to read either way. Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are carried, so dubbed audio and subtitled viewing both work in the same household. The K-Time interface is built for Persian-speaking viewers abroad, with a Farsi experience on web, phone and television.