Turkish TV series are wildly popular with audiences all over the world, drawing inspiration from Türkiye’s cultural heritage while being at ease in deepening and expressing a wide array of emotions.Turkish scripts bring forth unknown aspects of Türkiye and its people for the global audience.
And this resonates with foreign audiences, as they dive deep into the explorations of the complicated nature of human existence, which don’t simplify emotions for thrills. Turkish scripts also bring forth unknown aspects of Türkiye and its people for the global audience, emphasise experts. Rafi, who lives in Pakistan’s cultural capital, Lahore, points to these cultural similarities in family values and societal norms that she finds in Turkish series resonate with her.
He calls the upholding of values like respect for parents, rights and responsibilities of parents and children, manners, moral boundaries as “Anatolian wisdom”.