Bir kültürel ürünün gayrimeşrulaştırılması: Türk televizyon dizisi Behzat Ç. vakası

This thesis examines the de-legitimation of a cultural product. Using an array of qualitative methods, I focus on the case of Turkish television drama Behzat Ç., which was criticized and scrutinized by a group of actors including parliament members and regulatory institutions. Drawing on the concept of legitimacy in institutional theory and Bourdieu's conceptualization of homologies between fields, I investigate de-legitimation, its consequences for the producers and viewers of the drama, and reverberations for the Turkish TV dramas market (organizational field level) and Turkish society in general (societal level). I discuss the implications of my findings for the legitimation-de-legitimation dynamic, consumer resistance, and relations between definitions of legitimacy at different levels. Keywords: Legitimacy, De-legitimation, Isomorphism, Homologies Between Fields, Organizational Field Level, Societal Level, Television Drama, Behzat Ç., Resistance.