Why
are Turkish soap operas popular among Arabs?
From the article that has been published on BBC, many
views about the Turkish soap operas have been offered us to witness. As this
topic of Turkish soaps being sold worldwide keeps on being trendy, many aspects
on to the reason why they are so popular emerge from anywhere. These aspects
mostly are concerned with what remains behind the question why Arabs are quite
attracted to them than any other country. It is highly possible that it occurs
in accordance with some certain resemblances such as culture, common aims and
so on.
To start with the first resemblance that was mentioned
above, being a country which is also home to many Muslims, Arabs have a common
culture with Turkey. So to speak, they happen to come across many similarities
on to the topics of daily life in Turkish soap operas. As it was also mentioned
in the article on BBC, Turkish soap operas discuss subjects which are rarely
talked among Arabs for such sensitive reasons as legal and religious
restrictions on women, common view of public on gender equality and men women
relations. There is also a reference on this topic in the article. “’Turkish serials deal with many issues that
Arab television is afraid of dealing with such as gender equality, treason and
love affairs, and discussing the subject of illegitimate children born outside
of marriage,’ says Professor Asli Tunc, head of the Media School at Istanbul
Bilgi University. ” (Williams, 2013, BBC News) Therefore, these topics draw
Arab’s attention more than they do in western countries since the countries in
west areas are less in need of dealing with such subjects because of being
improved ideationally.
Along with cultural resemblances, Arabs also share
similar aims with Turkey because they have similar problems in their society.
Soap operas’ subjects about the common problems in society arouse curiosity and
interest especially in women. They can easily relate to and find a part of
themselves in Turkish soap operas. In this case, women in both countries share
similar ideas and carry the same hopes while watching these series, seeing
Fatmagül raped or watching the Magnificent Suleiman’s harem. Thus, Arab audience
of women take more interest in these soap operas than other nationalities. In a
way, this also meets the common culture reason.
Lastly, we can relate the rise of Turkish soap operas in
Arab world to Arabs’ timidity and them avoiding using the subjects we have
mentioned before in their own series. They tend to abstain from showing much
interest in opposite gender relations. In this way, Arab people give much
consequence to Turkish series because they get the chance to watch something
their producers did not prefer to show before. Furthermore, they get the
advantage of watching these series in a similar culture to them.
To sum up, Turkish soap operas get to be more popular day
by day due to sharing common culture, similar aims and catching the chance of watching
something they did not come across before.
REFERENCES:
Williams, N. (2013,
June 28). The rise of Turkish soap power. Retrieved April 4, 2016, from
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22282563
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