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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Media coverage of our event: The Global Turkish Wave in TV Drama

Last Friday, the Institute for Turkish Studies held a well-attended panel conversation about the global impact of Turkish TV dramas.

We held the event at what I believe is the oldest movie theatre in Stockholm, Biograf Zita. The panelists included top TV producer Kerem Catay, media scholars Melis Behlil (Kadir Has U. and Affiliated Researcher at SUITS) and Eylem Yanardagoglu (Kadir Has U.), as well as the Swedish distributor of many of the Turkish shows - Fredrik af Malmborg - and Magdalena Löfström from Swedish Television (SVT), who is responsible for the Turkish market and for the decision to air the Turkish show Son (The End, or Lögnen, as it was called in Sweden) on prime time. Yours truly served as moderator.


The event was covered by several Swedish and Turkish media, including the large Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet and the news show Kulturnytt on Swedish Radio P1. Below a list of links to some of the coverage in Turkish media.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-dramas-discussed-in-sweden.aspx?pageID=238&nID=56984&NewsCatID=381

http://www.haberler.com/turk-dizileri-isvec-te-tartisildi-5219538-haberi/
http://www.isvecpostasi.com/haber/380/ortadogu-da-turk-dizileri-cinsiyet-rollerini-degistiriyor.html






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