Thread by @Javanmardi75

🇹🇷The Soft Power of Turkish Intelligence.
——————————————The Turkish TV production hasn’t been affected much by the pandemic, as #Turkey still produces series, & it takes an additional step towards embodying reality through the series Tashkeelat, which began March 7th. 1/15

Turkish series enjoys widespread interest in #Turkey as well as in all of the countries of the Middle East, the Caucasus and the Balkans, where they enjoy high-quality accuracy and craftsmanship, as well as financial generosity for production and a high viewership. 2/15

What is new in the series #Tashkeelat is its touching on a very sensitive topic; the Turkish #intelligence activities, & its embodiment of real events that occurred, also broadcasting scenes that actually occurred during the security & military ops in Turkey & its vicinity. 3/15

First episode was highly viewed, in addition to a great interaction on Turkish & Arab social networking sites. It touched on the protagonist of the series #Sardar, who paased his childhood in Germany in 1996 when an extremist gang attacked him & his family was burned to death. 4

Then a Turkish diplomat would soon take care of him and take him to the "homeland", to join the #Turkish_intelligence service to "redeem the homeland, the flag and the crescent." 5/15

From then on the story of the series bifurcates as the hero arrests a criminal from within Arab lands & the intelligence apparatus extracts an alliance btw terrorist organizations to destroy Turkey, which calls for the establishment of a special team of Turks to confront them. 6

While the series included some scenes from the real Turkish #intelligence service building known as "the Citadel" & other scenes of drones, life & family dramas are not absent from the series or even the complex love & love stories that characterize all modern Turkish series. 7

The importance of the series #Tashkeelat is due to the fact that it sheds light on the ops of the most powerful & ambiguous Turkish apparatus, at a time when its president, #Hakan_Fidan, has risen in prominence in Turkish political life & the decision-making cycle since 2015. 8

Besides being a friend of the country's president, Recep Tayyip #Erdogan, the agency carries out important ops outside the Turkish borders, especially in #Syria & #Azerbaijan, & it exchanges information with NATO, #Iran, Israel & Qatar... 9/15

in addition to one of the reasons for the old disagreement btw #Erdogan & the prime minister.
Ahmet #Davutoglu was about the increasing role of the apparatus & the large role of Hakan #Fidan in the country.
It is shown by the Turkish state television #TRT every Sunday. 10/15

In the series, there is a very dense amount of expressions, vocabulary and events that emphasize the greatness of the Turkish people & the role of the army & important state institutions, also focus on the factor of redemption, patriotism, respect for the law. 11/15

In addition to raising the status of the elderly, firefighters and paramedics, & the country's flag, culture, symbols & nationality.
These series do not aim to entertain the Turks & others on the small screen, but rather have political & social goals as well, 12/15

by spreading a spirit of unity & patriotism & upholding the status of the army, the servant of society as well as Turkish nationalism, which complements the political & social outlook prevailing among the rulers of Turkey today. 13/15

On the other hand, these series are useful for spreading Turkish culture outside Turkey, making it an attractive center for others, & making it able to influence others much more than the ability of others to influence its people. 14/15

This is what can be real touched with the transformation of Turkey, long ago, into a tourist, health, commercial & political center in its regional surroundings, at a time when the series is translated & dubbed on Arab screens in a predominantly & without real competition. 15/15