Mustafa Çolak researches Turkish TV Series. Çolak analyzes how symbols are represented and examines the construction of various conspiracy theories. More information about Mustafa Çolak and his work, you find here: https://www.itn-mida.org/esr6-mustafa-%C3%A7olak @MSCActions @EU_H2020 @EUScienceInnov #MSCA #MSCAjobalert #ResearchImpactEU #H2020 #media #Turkishseries #Islam #tv #turkishtv #conspiracy #conspiracytheories

For a decade, TRT (Turkish state broadcaster) has been increasingly producing TV series about Ottoman history. One of the most popular historical drama is "Payitaht: Abdülhamid," which focuses on the final decade of Sultan Abdülhamid II's reign (r.1876-1909). TV series portrayed the sultan as an ideal and just ruler and striving to defend the interests of the Ottoman Empire against domestic and foreign threats as a matter of survival. The drama's plot develops as the Sultan

Each week we introduce one of the keynote speakers for the ENIS/MIDA Summer School “Spoken Images of/in Islam,” which takes place from 5-9 July 2021. Dr. Ali Sonay works at the Institute for Islamic Studies and Modern Oriental Philology at the University of Bern. His research interests are media systems in Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, Technological change and the societies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region), Social movements in the MENA region, Modern history o

Each week we introduce one of the keynote speakers for the ENIS/MIDA Summer School “Spoken Images of/in Islam,” which takes place from 5-9 July 2021. Dr. Berfin Emre Cetin is Senior Lecturer in the Communications and Media programme at London College of Communication (LCC). Berfin has completed her PhD at the University of Essex in the Department of Sociology in 2013. Her PhD explored the representation of nationalism and masculinity in a popular long running Turkish TV se

We say Goodbye to 2020 by presenting you the last MIDA film for this year. Our ESR Mustafa Colak´s presentation about his research topic aims to explain the social, economic, and political dimensions of Ottoman-themed state-sponsored TV series broadcasted by the Turkish state channel. He specifically focused on the two most popular TV serials "Diriliş Ertuğrul" and "Payitaht Abdulhamid." Enjoy the holidays and we will see you in 2021! #summerschool #ottoman #statesponsoredtv