A Cultural And Ideological Approach To The Turkish Soap Operas: “Made İn Turkey”

Specifically, tackling the debates around the “made in Turkey” soap operas, this article aims to give the pop-cultural, local and global interaction of these television serials and the cultural motives that structure this interaction along with a national and international literature review. Ideological oppositions, modernity, tradition, popular culture, the progress in the Turkish film production and the media representations where social identities, religions, nationalisms and gender are structured, are main highlights of this article. On the other hand, this commentary also attempted to give the origins of these cultural productions, their outscreen representations (print media, public-sphere, academic studies) and the systematic and social critiques of these serials.