Türk TV suç dizilerindeki antagonist karakterler aracılığıyla güvenlikleştirmenin Gramscian analizi: İz peşinde, Yılan Hikâyesi, Arka Sokaklar, Behzat Ç., İsimsizler ve Börü

The relationship between popular culture and politics has started to attract more attention with the spread of mass media and today's world becoming a visual and auditory showground; in other words, popular culture has become more important than ever in conveying the ideology of the ruling class. Popular culture products are instrumental in the reproduction and maintenance of economic, political, and cultural values in motion. The role of TV is still important in this context, given its prevalence and broad audience. In this thesis, it is examined how securitization practices play a role in the reproduction and maintenance of common sense in the Gramscian sense, in the context of six crime series broadcast on Turkish TV. For this purpose, the criminal profiles in the TV series İz Peşinde, Yılan Hikâyesi, Behzat Ç., Arka Sokaklar, İsimsizler, and Börü were categorized with the help of content analysis based on their names, nicknames, genders, professions, family backgrounds, educational backgrounds and the nature of the crimes they committed, and accordingly, certain stereotypes were determined. In the research, it was concluded that the criminals in the selected TV series were exposed to visual securitization through these stereotypes. In addition, it has been determined that these securitization practices are in parallel with the socio-political conjuncture of the period and reproduce common sense by repeating the dominant discourses. Keywords: Popular Culture, Common Sense, Securitization, Crime, TV series