Now in a thoroughly revised edition, this innovative and engaging text surveys the field of
popular geopolitics, exploring the relationship between popular culture and international …

In the past decade, Turkish television drama has enjoyed popular success in the Arab world,
fueling wide-ranging controversies in the pan-Arab public sphere. Such popularity is at first …

Ten years after the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Turkey in 2002,
Turkish-Arab relations have dramatically improved. This rapprochement was largely based …

Turkish–Israeli relations, which had reached the level of strategic cooperation by the end of
the 1990s, started to decline after 2000 and Turkey's approach to Israel has changed …

The objective of this note is to formulate conceptual links between nation brands,
international relations, and politics through the development of research questions that are …

This article investigates Valley of the Wolves—Iraq as a cinematic text produced and widely
consumed in domestic and international cinema markets. By placing a non-Western movie …

In the complex sphere of global television dramas, South Korea has emerged as a regional
force in the last few decades, followed by Turkey in the 2000s. Turkish TV dramas are sold to …

Kilinç was not alone in his aberration from the Western vision of Kemalist orthodoxy. On the
one hand, Turkey's chief prosecutor, Abdurrahman Yalçinkaya, filed on March 14, 2008, a …

TV shows and movies, as dominant forms of modern popular culture, often trigger domestic
discussions, especially when dealing with sensitive and thorny issues in society. But what …

The viewing of Turkish soap operas in Greece is a stigmatized activity not only for reasons
intrinsically related to the nature of soap operas per se, but also for reasons related to the …