Television in Turkey : Local Production, Transnational Expansion and Political Aspirations

This edited collection takes a timely and comprehensive approach to understanding Turkey’s television, which has become a global growth industry in the last decade, by reconsidering its geopolitics within both national and transnational contexts. The Turkish television industry along with audiences and content are contextualised within the socio-cultural and historical developments of global neoliberalism, transnational flows, the rise of authoritarianism, nationalism, and Islamism. Moving away from Anglo-American perspectives, the book analyzes both local and global processes of television production and consumption while taking into consideration the dynamics distinctive to Turkey, such as ethnic and gender identity politics, media policies and regulations, and rising nationalistic sentiments. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Television in Turkey: Local Production, Transnational Expansion, and Political Aspirations (Yeşim Kaptan, Ece Algan)....Pages 1-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 The Regulation of Television Content in Turkey: From State Monopoly to Commercial Broadcasting and Beyond (Burcu Sümer, Oğuzhan Taş)....Pages 27-46 Televised Journalistic Documentaries of the 1990s: The Form, Content, and Historical Juncture (Burçe Çelik)....Pages 47-65 Revisiting the Unplugged Margins: Rural Television Audiences and Mediatization (Nurçay Türkoğlu)....Pages 67-81 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 Debating Women’s Issues on Turkish Television: Exploring the Role of Political Power in Women’s Talk (Esra Özcan)....Pages 85-102 Women’s Fragile Trust: Safety, Familiarity, and Secrecy in the Marriage Show (Feyza Akınerdem)....Pages 103-123 Representing Female Detectives in Turkish Police Procedurals (Ayşegül Kesirli Unur)....Pages 125-147 Front Matter ....Pages 149-149 Continuities and Changes in the Transnational Broadcasts of TRT (Gökçen Karanfil)....Pages 151-171 Mediatisation and Hyper-commodification of Sport in Post-1980 Turkey (Dağhan Irak)....Pages 173-188 From TRT to Netflix: Implications of Convergence for Television Dramas in Turkey (Eylem Yanardağoğlu, Neval Turhallı)....Pages 189-204 Front Matter ....Pages 205-205 Mediatised Culturalisation Through Television: Second-Generation Alevi Kurds in London (Kumru Berfin Emre Cetin)....Pages 207-222 Turkish Drama Serials and Arab Audiences: Why Turkish Serials Are Successful in the Arab World (Miriam Berg)....Pages 223-244 Consuming Halal Turkish Television in Indonesia: A Closer Look at the Social Responses Towards Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Inaya Rakhmani, Adinda Zakiah)....Pages 245-265 Back Matter ....Pages 267-274