Turkey Recasts ‘Top Gun’ to Give Its TV Soft Power a Harder Edge
July 24, 2023
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0:58Now PlayingTurkey Recasts ‘Top Gun’ to Give Its TV Soft Power a Harder Edge
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as posted by the channelLong willing to do battle across the Middle East, Turkey now also wants to win hearts and minds far beyond the reach of NATO’s second-biggest army.
And it has a blueprint to do it.
Free Sky, a new Turkish fighter pilot television drama that local media have dubbed a homegrown Top Gun, isn’t just channeling Tom Cruise’s heroics in the cockpit. Like the 1986 American blockbuster, Free Sky was made in collaboration with real air force pilots and equipment used by the Turkish military.
It’s the latest of a growing crop of Turkish shows heralding a hard-power pivot for a lucrative soft-power sector that’s built a global audience of millions, so far mostly with romantic Istanbul melodramas and historical tales of Ottoman conquest.
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