Four young professionals, one shared appetite for success — Icimizdeki Ates tracks the early career years when ambition either turns into a career or into a trap.
What is Icimizdeki Ates about?
The 2022 Turkish drama follows four young people — intelligent, driven and used to succeeding — as they take their first real steps into the business world, each chasing a version of a life they have already pictured for themselves. Rather than one central plot, the show builds around parallel careers and the personal costs that come with them: rivalries at work, family expectations, and relationships tested by long hours and bigger ambitions. Gizem Arıkan, Demirhan Demircioğlu, Bilgesu Kural, Burak Sevinç, Ceren Benderlioğlu, İpek Filiz Yazıcı and Atakan Hoşgören play the overlapping circle of colleagues, friends and rivals whose paths keep crossing as the four leads climb. Director Murat Onbul frames it as a family-inflected soap as much as a workplace drama, letting boardroom tension spill into dinner tables and old friendships.
About the cast
Gizem Arıkan and Demirhan Demircioğlu lead an ensemble rounded out by Bilgesu Kural, Burak Sevinç, Ceren Benderlioğlu, İpek Filiz Yazıcı and Atakan Hoşgören, whose characters move between the office and the family home as the four leads' ambitions start to collide.
Context & significance
Icimizdeki Ates sits at the intersection of two familiar Turkish television formats: the workplace-ambition drama and the extended-family soap, released in 2022 with a full-length episode runtime built for that slower, ensemble pacing. Its focus on young professionals rather than an established older generation gives it a different center of gravity than most family soaps, following characters who are still deciding who they want to become rather than defending what they already have.
Watching Icimizdeki Ates on Ktime
Icimizdeki Ates streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers the option to watch the original Turkish performances with full Farsi support. A free K-Time account login is required to watch; the show's page itself can be read without one, in an interface built Farsi-first for the diaspora.