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Podcast: Middle East Dossier
Episode: ErtuÄŸrul Goes East: Turkey Rising in South Asia
Description: [This event is organised by the Middle East Institute's Arabia Asia Research Cluster and the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore]Â
In 2019, at the start of Ramadan, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urged the country to watch a dubbed version of the Turkish period drama, DiriliÅŸ: ErtuÄŸrul (Resurrection: ErtuÄŸrul), on national television. In it, viewers will see that the hero struggles to impose just rule against foreign enemies. This drama was originally released in 2014 by the government-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation to shore up domestic support for President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan by...