Turkish TV experienced a LGBT bedroom scene in 2010 on the show “Kılıç Günü" by Osman Sınav. This scene was only contains a half naked gay couple lying on the bed, and the scene significantly appeared on the Turkish media after in a few hours it was published. Osman Sınav horribly justified itself by stating that they displayed the immorality of this community while RTUK President wanted to penalise the discussions about the show on TV which denied by the majority of the board of RTUK.
Even these intolerable comments witnessed by Turkish audiences in 2010s, the LGBT characters have been presented on national TV since 1993. In those years, this phenomena started on the Show TV’s Sevginin Gücü by the actor Volkan Severcan. In following years, the same actor took place on ATV’s Kaldırım Çiçeği as Memoş who is a gay pimp of two prostitute, performed by popular actresses of the era, Sibel Can and Hande Ataizi. Kaldırım Çiçeği was also important for LGBT community due to its trans characters and LGBT clubs. These two shows’ producer Türker İnanoğlu made another show, Yapayanlız that introduced lesbianism to screen in 2001.
Kampüsistan (2003) and Mükemmel Çift (2010) and even one of the important shows of Turkish TV Bir İstanbul Masalı (2003) had also gay characters in recent years. But some of these shows were cencored in some way such as cut scenes on Bir İstanbul Masalı and Kılıç Günü at the revives of the shows or take out parts of Mükemmel Çift despite they were taped or actors performed the scenes were fired from other shows (Mükemmel Çift, Tuğrul Tülek as main character).
The audiences exposed stories, characters, situations, decisions, lives on TV is the society itself, especially in the high rating owner countries such as Turkey. Whatever they see on TV becomes a part of their life as a knowledge or a possible experience. Even refusing the feed served doesn’t block the apparency of it. Today’s media-raised children are growing up with ignorance of this concept. It doesn't mean they wouldn’t be familiar with LGBT community, but obviously the process will be more challenging without the significant force of media. Authorities are also aware of this power of TV, thats why the censorships mentioned above are overlapped with the period where the conservative political party AKP in-charged. And also it explains the attitude of RTUK to these shows, where the global approach is tendency to contain LGBT characters on shows which is a part of real life.
The audiences exposed stories, characters, situations, decisions, lives on TV is the society itself, especially in the high rating owner countries such as Turkey. Whatever they see on TV becomes a part of their life as a knowledge or a possible experience. Even refusing the feed served doesn’t block the apparency of it. Today’s media-raised children are growing up with ignorance of this concept. It doesn't mean they wouldn’t be familiar with LGBT community, but obviously the process will be more challenging without the significant force of media. Authorities are also aware of this power of TV, thats why the censorships mentioned above are overlapped with the period where the conservative political party AKP in-charged. And also it explains the attitude of RTUK to these shows, where the global approach is tendency to contain LGBT characters on shows which is a part of real life.
These concise yet complete moves of Turkish productors show that the audiences haven’t a problem with LGBT characters and it doesn’t effect the ratings. The shows mentioned above were mostly popular and trendy shows of their times. There is no considerable relation between unpopularity and LGBT content. Contrary, the international shows embraced LGBT are also trendy in Turkey and everywhere now.
To sum, the mentality of political parties should be less reflected on media, cinema and TV; thus the reailty of humanity will be screened freely and seminally.
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