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language, due to the increasing of the audiences' "TV-literacy" 38 and critical
approaches.
In Turkish series, families are the first or one of the first reasons why
the individuals are "healthy". Sameone o w es to his family to be a good person
and a good citizen. In the "classical" family series, the family finds out a
solution to the smallest problem, always with solidarity and love surrounding.
It' s always the only reliable reference. Of course, the hidden or the connotative
meaning of this fact is that 'the one who leaves the flock, that is to say the
family, will be taken away by the wolf. In series which focus on adventure and
action, professional life as well as in relationships a little bit of the "mafia
type', the "good" hero finds peace of mind and happiness in his family. On the
contrary, the "real" bad one s have no "family" or are very far from true
traditional family values and relationships.
In the last period of time, we can see a change related to the family :
there are many characters that are divorced or divorcing. This can be explained
as a proof that divorce as a social phenomenon is part of the atmesphere of the
series, even if most of the divorced people are bad ones, "degenerate" or they
end starting a new family. On the other hand, sexual intercourse outside
marriage which were previously identified with bad people only ("Küçük
Sırlar, "Aşk ve Ceza", "Yaprak Dökümü" ete ..) are now used more frequently,
although they generally lead to bad consequences.
also see that women for years were with
the family, even if they had any professional and public relations were shown
mo re for the ir lives inside the family, have started the se last years to open up to
the outside world. It's interesting to see the increasing number of women
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For further information about this "audience typology" cf. Hülya Uğur Tanrıöver, La
reproduction de la division sexuelle du travail a travers !es pratiques culturelles : images de
femmes dans !es feuilletons de teZevisian turque et leur lecture dans le pays et dans
l'immigration, These de Doctorat non publiee,Universite de Montpellier III, Dep. de
Sociologie, 2003, Directeur: Prof. Dr. Mohand Khellil.