A seaside town becomes the setting where three friends stop running from their families' pasts and finally face what was left unresolved.
What is Zeytin Agaci about?
Zeytin Agaci is a 2022 Turkish drama that follows three friends as they arrive together in a quiet coastal town, drawn by a search that starts out looking like a change of scenery and quickly turns into something more personal. As the three settle into the rhythms of the town, they find themselves reconnecting with a more spiritual, reflective side of themselves, and that shift in perspective pulls old family wounds back to the surface. Each of the friends carries a different unresolved thread from their household's history, and the town itself, with its slower pace and close-knit community, gives those threads room to unravel rather than stay buried. The series builds its drama around conversation, memory, and the small frictions of people who know each other well but have avoided talking about the things that matter most, rather than around fast plotting or twists. Its pacing suits long-form Turkish television, where episodes run close to an hour and relationships are given space to develop gradually across a season.
About the cast
The cast is led by Tuba Büyüküstün as Ada, Seda Bakan as Leyla, and Boncuk Yilmaz as Sevgi, the central trio of friends, with Riza Kocaoğlu, Fırat Tanış, Murat Boz, Serkan Altunorak, and Füsun Demirel rounding out the town's wider circle of family and neighbors.
Context & significance
Zeytin Agaci sits within Turkey's long tradition of soap-inflected drama, a format built on extended episode lengths and slow-burning family stories that has found a large audience well beyond Turkey's own borders, including among Persian-speaking viewers. The coastal-town setting and the theme of digging into a family's past are recurring touchstones in this style of Turkish television, giving the series a familiar shape for anyone who follows the genre while still telling its own story.
Watching Zeytin Agaci on Ktime
Zeytin Agaci streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so the friends' conversations and the town's slower rhythms come through naturally for Farsi-speaking audiences. A free K-Time account login is all that is required to watch; browsing the show's page needs no login at all.