The Graft

After his sister's sudden death, Dr. Ozan finds his orderly life breaking apart as he gets pulled toward the city's criminal underworld. What starts as questions about the circumstances of her death becomes a tangle of favors, threats and uneasy compromises, and he ends up forming a fragile alliance with the syndicate's new leader, Elif. The series keeps the focus on Ozan's shifting loyalties, the strain on his professional ethics and the personal costs of staying silent. Each episode tightens the pressure around who can be trusted, showing how grief and the need for answers can push someone into moral gray areas without revealing fate or final resolutions. Elif's leadership blurs lines between protector and threat, complicating loyalties.

The Graft premiered in 2025, created by Ekin Pandir, İlker Arslan and Onur Durmaz. It stars Serra Arıtürk, Aytaç Şaşmaz, Erol Babaoğlu, Diren Polatoğulları and Deniz Barut, and blends gritty crime drama with intimate character work. The creative team are emerging voices in Turkish television.

As of early release, The Graft hasn't won major international awards. It has, however, been noted in regional festival lineups and trade roundups, and lead performances have been singled out in early reviews for their intensity. It's early in the awards cycle, so major recognition may still come.

Although recent, the show has prompted conversations about portrayals of organized crime in contemporary Turkish television, and scenes of tense negotiations between doctors and gang figures have been replayed in online discussions. The lead actors' chemistry has become a frequent topic on social feeds. Critics and viewers often cite particular confrontations and wardrobe choices when debating the show's tone.

Critical response is mixed, with an average viewer rating near 6.0 out of 10 from early votes. Reviewers often praise the moral complexity, grief-driven motivations and strong performances, while some point to uneven pacing and familiar crime genre beats as weaknesses. Viewers note the show's focus on corruption, loyalty, power and the heavy weight of personal decisions under pressure.