Television in Turkey

This edited collection takes a timelyand comprehensiveapproach tounderstandingTurkey's television,which has become a global growth industry in the last decade,byreconsidering its geopolitics within both national and transnational contexts.The Turkish television industryalong with audiences and content are contextualised within thesocio-cultural andhistorical developments of global neoliberalism, transnational flows, the rise of authoritarianism, nationalism, and Islamism. Moving away from Anglo-American perspectives,the bookanalyzesboth local and global processes of television production and consumptionwhile taking into consideration the dynamicsdistinctive to Turkey, such as ethnic and gender identity politics, media policies and regulations, and rising nationalistic sentiments.