Director: Yagiz Alp Akaydin
Two men who have shared forty years of friendship are pulled onto opposite sides of a single tragedy in Tetikcinin Oglu, a 2023 Turkish drama that turns a decades-old bond into the story's central fault line.
What is Tetikcinin Oglu about?
Korkmaz and Iskender have stood by each other since childhood, weathering everything life put in front of them together. That loyalty is tested when Iskender's son is killed in an accident, and the man accused of causing it turns out to be Metin — the son Korkmaz lost track of twenty-two years earlier and spent years trying to find again. Suddenly the two old friends are no longer standing shoulder to shoulder; they are staring at each other across a divide neither of them chose. One is grieving a child he will never get back. The other is fighting to keep a son he only just found from being taken from him too. The series follows both men as guilt, love, and old debts of friendship collide with a legal and emotional reckoning that neither can walk away from cleanly.
Cast & crew
Timuçin Esen and Şevket Çoruh anchor the series as Korkmaz and Iskender, playing the weight of a broken friendship with restraint rather than melodrama. Serhat Kılıç, Esra Kızıldoğan, Sezin Akbaşoğulları, Baran Can Eraslan, and veteran performer Nükhet Duru round out a cast built around a tight, family-centered ensemble rather than a large sprawling one.
Context & significance
Director Yagiz Alp Akaydin builds the show around a single, escalating moral dilemma instead of a wide plot with many threads, a structure common in Turkish family dramas that favor slow-burn emotional stakes over fast twists. At 120 minutes per episode, the series gives its two central performances plenty of room to breathe, letting silences and small gestures carry as much weight as dialogue.
Where & how to watch
Tetikcinin Oglu is available with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the story in whichever format suits them. Reading about the series here is open to everyone; streaming the episodes themselves requires a free K-Time account login, with a Farsi-language interface built for Persian-speaking audiences.