Popular seri̇es of female images in Turkey; representation of women character in the ''Istanbullu Geli̇n''

Starting from the Ottoman period to the proclamation of the Republic, Turkish women had many changes and developments. With the proclamation of the Republic, women became an important part of the modernization process. However, when we look at today from the historical developments and changes, gender roles and stereotypes continue to exist and are reproduced. Mass media is one of the biggest supporters of this situation. One of the most effective means of mass media is television. Television is a very effective tool in the preservation of patriarchal ideology in society and in the reproduction of value judgments. In television programs, serials occupy an important place in the life of people and set record records. What makes the series such success are narrative structures and characters used. Images are created with the roles loaded on the characters in the series and the viewer identifies and integrates them with these images. Even though female characters are formed in Turkish serials that sometimes adapt to the modernization process of the society, their substructure remains dependent on patriarchal family structure and gender judgments. Since the characters of the series are effective images on the audience, certain characters were selected and analyzed by using Lajos Egri's Dialectical Analysis Character Characterizationmethod. In this study, how the images of women take place in the television series is tried to be analyzed by making character analyzes on the sample series. Turkish women had many changes and improvements during the period from Ottoman's to the proclamation of the Republic. In line with the proclamation of the Republic, the woman has been an important part of the modernization period. However, when we look at today with considering historical improvements and changes, social gender roles and stereotypes continue to be existed and are re-created. Mass media has been one of the biggest supporters of this situation. One of the most effective mass media is the Television. Television is a very effective tool in the preservation of patriarchal ideology in society and in the re-produce of value judgments. In tv programmes, serials have important place in order to occupy to spare time of people and these serials break watch records. What makes the series such success are narrative structures and characters used. Images are created by roles that loaded on characters in serials and audience identify and integrate themselves with these images. Even though female characters are formed in Turkish serials that sometimes adapt to the modernization process of the society, their substructure remains dependent on patriarchal family structure and gender judgments. Particular characters, from Istanbullu Gelin as the sample serial, since the characters of the series are effective images on the audience, were selected and analysed with using Character Analysis method by Lajos Egri's Dialectic Analysis. In this study, how the images of women take place in the television series is tried to be analyzed by making character analyzes on the sample series.