{"id":3952,"date":"2010-06-18T12:16:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2010-06-18T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:16:17","slug":"wie-die-turkei-uber-die-kopfe-der-araber-herrscht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2010\/06\/18\/wie-die-turkei-uber-die-kopfe-der-araber-herrscht_3952","title":{"rendered":"Wie die T\u00fcrkei \u00fcber die K\u00f6pfe der Araber herrscht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mit Kulturimperialismus! Durch den Erfolg t\u00fcrkischer Soap-Operas, die den arabischen Markt dominieren. Ein faszinierender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/18\/arts\/18abroad.html?hp\">Artikel in der New York Times<\/a> zeigt, dass die T\u00fcrkei auf allen Gebieten dabei ist, als Soft Power den Nahen Osten aufzurollen:<\/p>\n<p><em>A Hamas leader not long ago was describing to a reporter plans by his government to start a network of Shariah-compliant TV entertainment when his teenage son arrived, complaining about Western music and his sister\u2019s taste for the Turkish soap operas. Then the son\u2019s cellphone rang. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The ring tone was the theme song from \u201cNoor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If this seems like a triumph of Western values by proxy, the Muslim context remains the crucial bridge. \u201cUltimately, it\u2019s all about local culture,\u201d said Irfan Sahin, the chief executive of Dogan TV Holding, Turkey\u2019s largest media company, which owns Kanal D. \u201cPeople respond to what\u2019s familiar.\u201d By which he meant that regionalism, not globalism, sells, as demonstrated by the finale of \u201cNoor\u201d last summer on MBC, the Saudi-owned, Dubai-based, pan-Arab network that bought rebroadcast rights from Mr. Sahin. A record 85 million Arab viewers tuned in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mLBtytLSpwE&#038;hl=de_DE&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>That said, during the last 20 years or so Turkey has ingested so much American culture that it has experienced a sexual revolution that most of the Arab world hasn\u2019t, which accounts for why \u201cNoor\u201d triumphed in the Middle East but was considered too tame for most Turks. Even Mr. Sahin wonders, by contrast, whether the racier \u201cAsk-i Memnu,\u201d a smash with young Turks, threatens to offend Arabs unless it is heavily edited.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou have to understand that there are people still living even in this city who say they only learned how to kiss or learned there is kissing involved in lovemaking by watching \u2018Noor,\u2019\u00a0\u201d explained Sengul Ozerkan, a professor of television here who conducts surveys of such things. \u201cSo you can imagine why the impact of that show was so great in the Arab world and why \u2018Ask-i Memnu\u2019 may be too much.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut then, Turkey always acts like a kind of intermediary between the West and the Middle East,\u201d she added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or as Sina Kologlu, the television critic for Milliyet, a Turkish daily, phrased it the other day: \u201cU.S. cultural imperialism is finished. Years ago we took reruns of \u2018Dallas\u2019 and \u2018The Young and the Restless.\u2019 Now Turkish screenwriters have learned to adapt these shows to local themes with Muslim storylines, Turkish production values have improved, and Asians and Eastern Europeans are buying Turkish series, not American or Brazilian or Mexican ones. They get the same cheating and the children out of wedlock and the incestuous affairs but with a Turkish sauce on top.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ali Demirhan is a Turkish construction executive whose company in Dubai plans to help stage the next Turkish Emmys there. One recent morning he was at a sunny cafe in a mall here recalling a Turkish colleague who had just closed a deal with a Qatari sheik by rustling up three Turkish soap stars the sheik wanted to meet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Demirhan sipped Turkish coffee while Arabs shopped nearby. \u201cIn the same way American culture changed our society, we\u2019re changing Arab society,\u201d he said, then paused for dramatic effect. \u201cIf America wants to make peace with the Middle East today, it must first make peace with Turkey.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mit Kulturimperialismus! Durch den Erfolg t\u00fcrkischer Soap-Operas, die den arabischen Markt dominieren. Ein faszinierender Artikel in der New York Times zeigt, dass die T\u00fcrkei auf allen Gebieten dabei ist, als Soft Power den Nahen Osten aufzurollen: A Hamas leader not long ago was describing to a reporter plans by his government to start a network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,169,173,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-medienkritik","category-palastina","category-turkei"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wie die T\u00fcrkei \u00fcber die K\u00f6pfe der Araber herrscht - J\u00f6rg Lau<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2010\/06\/18\/wie-die-turkei-uber-die-kopfe-der-araber-herrscht_3952\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wie die T\u00fcrkei \u00fcber die K\u00f6pfe der Araber herrscht - J\u00f6rg Lau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mit Kulturimperialismus! 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