atv's highly anticipated new series, Karadut, produced by Tims&B Productions, will premiere on Monday, September 23rd. Karadut, which has already created buzz with its stunningly shot teasers, tells the story of Zuhal, who, while trying to keep up with life and everything around her, embarks on a journey from darkness to light when she encounters love, transforming both herself and those around her.
In the rule-bound Erdem family, Zuhal will face various challenges with her father and siblings as she tries to find her own truth. How Zuhal’s journey of love will impact the family is a subject of great curiosity.
Read on to meet the Erdem family, the characters at the center of Karadut:
İrem Helvacıoğlu as Zuhal Erdem
She has achieved great success in her personal development career through relationship counseling and the books she has written on love and relationships. Behind the image of a strong, beautiful, modern woman in the media lies a very different identity at home. Zuhal is trapped in the role of a housewife who cannot break free from her father’s control. Her responsibilities towards her family have turned her into a lonely woman, but for the sake of a love she unexpectedly encounters, she is willing to stand up to her father.
Aslı İnandık as Figen Erdem Yüksel
Figen, who is the younger sister of Zuhal, is the only one in the family who has managed to make a successful marriage. Sharing a marriage of over ten years and two children with Ayhan, they have become a team that stands united in every challenge.
Selin Türkmen as Aslı Erdem
Despite just starting her architecture career, Aslı is the only member of the family who doesn’t rely on Zuhal’s help. With her calm and warm nature, she has become one of her sister’s most trusted confidants. She places love at the center of her life and is blindly devoted to her relationship. Aslı also has the healthiest and most balanced relationship with her father.
Ebrar Karabakan as Begüm Erdem
As the youngest in the family, Begüm acts impulsively and carelessly, often indulging in whims due to her sense of entitlement. After losing her mother at a very young age, she has looked up to Zuhal as a mother figure.
Engin Şenkan as Çetin Erdem
A retired colonel, Çetin has established a strict order in the house he shares with his daughters based on his military discipline. Everyone knows him to be authoritarian and stern. While he holds his daughters above everything else in the world, his attempts to show them love are often overshadowed by his grumpiness. After his wife’s death, his overprotectiveness towards his eldest daughter, Zuhal, becomes his greatest struggle in maintaining order.
Şükrü Özyıldız as Tayfun
Tayfun, who is a stranger to settled life and has lived in various parts of Turkey and the world so far, has gained the ability to adapt to any environment quickly. When he decides to put his life in order, Zuhal comes along and throws him into a tough love struggle. But it is not only his impossible love with Zuhal that Tayfun has to fight.
Burak Dakak as Bora
Bora is much more mature, sane, and grounded than his peers. He generally prefers to remain silent in crowds. He is one of the brightest and most talented employees at the architecture office, where he works with Zuhal's sister Aslı (Selin Türkmen). In contrast to Bora's quiet personality, his mother is the person he loves and depends on the most in this life.