Popular Cultural Struggle of "Islamist" Identity: Ehlisünnet TV Street Interviews
Journal Title: Moment Dergi - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
This study aims to analyse and interpret Ehlisünnet TV (Ahsen TV, with its new name) emissions focussing on some “street interviews”, “street observatory shootings” and “street interview like mise en scenes” which are named as “social experiments” by the producers. The reporters of Ehlisünnet TV seem to have regularly conducted interviews in different parts of Istanbul such as Nişantaşı, Bakırköy, Eyüp, Karagümrük or Taksim. In those interviews, they put specific focus on Islamic lifestyle, secular lifestyle, values, dress code, and so on. The reporters, who name themselves as “Islamcı” and obviously take position on behalf of regulating life according to Islamic ways, bring up highly disputable issues in their interviews and even provoke people to get the point they wanted to reach and in the end they emit those video records with highly speculative headings. While they ask people mostly provocative questions about Islam and lifestyles in street interviews, the “social experiments” are planned in a way to make people confirm the Islamic dress code, lifestyle and socio-political position they approved.
Authors and Affiliations
Halil İbrahim Gurel, Leyla Simsek-Rathke
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- DOI 10.17572/mj2016.1.6484
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