“Turkish Content”: The Historical Rise of the Dizi Genre

This article explores the making of the dizi genre. Coming a long way since the 1970s, the dizi genre, which was once inspired by foreign drama, has now established a global impact, reaching out to distant territories and audiences. As a genre, dizi has different features from the soap and telenovela. Because dizis are shot in natural settings and because dialogues are natural, dizis are slow. The musical, textual and visual diversity is richer than the soap and the telenovela which also have a slow narrative flow.