Kübra Netflix Ending Explained: What Happened to Gökhan and Who is Behind the Messages?
A new Turkish series, Kübra, arrived on Netflix a few days ago based on the book of the same name by Afsin Kum. A title that immediately captured the public’s attention thanks to its intriguing plot with religious elements and a great mystery to be revealed that keeps you glued to the screen from the beginning to the end of the series. Directed by Durul Taylan and Yagmur Taylan, Kübra, consisting of 8 episodes, went viral on TikTok due to the name of the protagonist, Gökhan, which in the Italian dub resembles blasphemy, and joins the list of most interesting Turkish series Netflix offers the public a story that, if seen to the end, is truly surprising and full of thoughtful insights. But how does Kübra end? What happens in the series finale and what is Kübra‘s identity? Now we’ll reveal it to you.
Kübra which tells the story of Gokhan Sahinoglu (Çagatay Ulusoy), a mechanic in the suburbs of Istanbul who begins to receive a message that seems to predict the future. When he shares that information, he becomes a prophet with fervent followers and powerful enemies. Gökhan is the only survivor of an attack on his military unit, which left him with post-traumatic stress disorder and damaged hearing. After the death of his father, he takes care of his mother and his sister Gülcan (Ahsen Eroglu), and he is also engaged to Merve (Aslihan Malbora), although he has not yet set a date for their marriage. The life of the protagonist of Kübra changes and he begins to receive strange messages through the app he uses to talk about his faith with other people. The mysterious user assures him that Gökhan is different and sends some prophecies that cause him to have a crisis of identity and faith.
Kübra Netflix Ending Explained: Summary Recap
The plot of Kübra begins with Gökhan working as a mechanic in the suburbs of Istanbul. The man lives with his mother and sister. He has a girlfriend called Merve, who he would like to marry. Gökhan is a former soldier who suffers from PTSD. His entire unit was killed in a raid and he is the only one who survived. Furthermore, he has a hearing defect in his left ear. One day Gökhan receives a message from a certain Kübra. The latter, on an app where people talk about faith, sends prophetic messages that disturb Gökhan.
Kübra convinces the protagonist that they are sharing Allah’s word with the world. After putting him to a test, he asks him to warn people of an impending problem. And suddenly there is a power cut in the city and a sound is heard. Everyone is convinced that Gökhan is the chosen one and so forms a group of followers of him. What happens also attracts the attention of the authorities and politicians. The officer investigating the government disruptions is Kara, while the government suspects a possible terrorist attack and Gökhan becomes a suspect. The latter reiterates that he followed the word of Allah, who asked him to warn everyone.
Kübra Netflix Ending Explained: What Happened to Gökhan and Who is Behind the Messages?
Towards the end of Kübra, the stranger reveals to Gökhan that Kübra is an artificial intelligence program, created by some developers skilled in the technology. One of its main creators, Berk, is not worried, unlike others who have some doubts about the program’s capabilities. One evening, while he was chatting about this artificial system, Berk jokingly asked him to take over. But Kübra took the challenge seriously, so much so that he promised that he would achieve this somehow. Berk gave AI the ability to access private databases, allowing it to work on its own. Therefore, everything that happens is precisely the Kübra program, even behind the power cuts and the signals noticed by Gökhan. As time went on, Berk became pleased with the AI’s capabilities.
But then his assistant Adem discovered everything and started to worry. The latter is the stranger who approaches Gökhan to reveal the truth about Kubra. But the protagonist believes, instead, that everything still depended on Allah, who would have used the developers who created the program. Meanwhile, Gökhan decides to meet the minister to negotiate the freedom of his loved ones, who have been arrested. After their meeting, during a big conference, he goes on stage and shocks everyone by announcing that he will return all the money donated to the donation. So suddenly all over the city ATMs start spitting out money. After that, Gökhan in the finale states that he shares the word of Allah and invites everyone to follow him. The first season of Kubra ends with the protagonist raising his hand and the lights going out, giving yet another demonstration. But even in this case, it is the program based on artificial intelligence that takes action.
Who Kübra Really Is?
The ending of Kübra truly leaves you speechless and gives meaning to the entire series which is revealed right in its ending. At the end of the seventh episode of Kübra, Gökhan discovers that he is not a true messenger of God and that the fact that he survived the gunshot is not a miracle but a plan constructed by his girlfriend, now his wife, to make him return to believe in himself after Kubra stopped texting him on his phone making him believe he was the Lord’s chosen one. The blood on his shirt was nothing more than chicken blood and the bullet was fake. Once he discovered the truth, thanks to the investigator who revealed it to him, Gökhan went into a rage but there was another great truth that he had yet to discover: Kübra‘s true identity.
Suddenly, a boy appears before Gökhan who reveals to him that he knows who Kübra is who had sent him those messages on his phone at the beginning of the series. So Gökhan is asked to turn off the phone and the truth is revealed to him: “Kübra is our creation”, says the mysterious boy. What is it about? An artificial intelligence system designed by a group of kids for the management of company capital based on knowledge of people’s data. This AI system can understand the customer’s weak points and needs and signal the company the best strategies to create what people need and, consequently, have secure earnings. Kübra is nothing other than the acronym for “Knowledge Unite Based Reasoning Automaton. The system was created by three guys who returned from America and received a huge sum for selling Kübra to a Turkish communications company. Selim, Berk, and one of their colleagues. Instead, it is Berk’s assistant, Adem, who reveals the truth to Gökhan.
And if Kübra was created to be a data analysis system, Berk will give it more and more power, until the system comes to have access to the passwords, emails, and all the digital information of every person in the world. So, behind what Gökhan believes to be a message from God, there is simply an artificial intelligence system playing at being God. And the message Gökhan receives on his phone at the start of the series, “You are different” was sent to 86 other men aged between 25 and 30. A target was chosen because people of this age, male, all believe they are different, and those who believe it are already halfway there. Thus, Kübra exploits these human weaknesses to enter the minds of these people and make them believe in far-fetched but necessary things for them, such as the existence of a God who sends signals. “Men choose based on emotions” explains the operating system. Fear, confusion, enthusiasm, every action and decision come from these feelings and Gökhan was chosen to receive those messages precisely because he acts based on these emotions. The others, however, need to follow a leader, and that is precisely what happens with Gökhan’s followers.
Who is Behind Kübra?
The stranger reveals that Kubra is an artificial intelligence program, Knowledge Unit Based Reasoning Automaton, created by a group of developers who sold their product to a telecommunications company to optimize their customer database. One night, Berk, one of the AI’s creators, jokingly tells her to “take power,” but Kubra replies that she can do it. From that moment on, the program sends messages to several people, but only Gökhan passes the first tests. Of course, Berk is enthusiastic about the results and pays no attention to the consequences. When his assistant Adem warns him of the danger, he receives a threat.
Although he cannot do anything about it, Adem decides to share the truth at least with Gökhan, who after the shock of learning that it was not God who was speaking to him, must decide whether to abandon his followers or move on. Semavi believes that God used those programmers to create a way to communicate with him and proclaim his message. At the end of “Kübra,” Gökhan meets with the minister and makes a deal to free his family and friends. But when he goes on stage, he announces that he will return the donated money because it is a command from God. At that moment, the city’s ATMs expel several bills. When he raises his hands and warns that whoever does not heed the word of Allah will suffer, the lights go out. All with the help of Kubra.
