
A support actor played in 3 films in a day. Yeşilçam was the world's 4th biggest cinema. Turkish Yeşilçam films (English: green pine), were more popular at the time. TRT was known for its adaptations of Turkish classic novels into historical TV mini-series. The period of TV dramas on just TRT continued until 1986, being referred to in Turkey as the "single channel period" ( Turkish: tek kanal dönemi) and the shows themselves being called the "old TRT series" ( Turkish: eski TRT dizileri). The series was released on TRT, the public broadcaster of Turkey. The series was called Aşk-ı Memnu, which was adapted from the eponymous 1899 novel by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil. Turkey's first TV series was produced in 1974. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. The sudden and massive international popularity of Turkish TV dramas since the 2000s has been widely analyzed as a social phenomenon. The success of Turkish television series has also boosted tourism, as visitors are eager to visit the locations used in their favorite shows. Turkish television shows are almost always available in multiple languages, dubbed or subtitled to accommodate the target country's language. Çalıkuşu was the first Turkish TV series to be exported internationally in 1986 to the Soviet Union. However, this does not apply to internet platform series. Each episode of a Turkish drama is typically between 120 and 150 minutes in length, excluding advertisements. The Turkish television series market is characterized by intense local competition out of the 60 series produced annually in the country, almost 50% do not run for longer than 13 episodes due to the strong competition among local channels, which results in the high quality and popularity of the longer-running productions. Turkish television channels producing dramas include TRT, Kanal D, Show TV, Star TV, ATV, Fox, TV8, and Kanal 7. Turkish series are chiefly produced in Istanbul, following the liberalization of private television in Turkey in the 1990s. The television industry has played a crucial role in increasing Turkey's popularity in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North Africa. Turkey has become the world's fastest growing exporter of television series, surpassing Mexico and Brazil as the second-largest exporter of television series after the United States by the mid-2010s. These dramas are believed to reflect Turkish culture and considered by some to be the country's most well known economic and cultural exports. Turkish television series ( Turkish: Türk dizileri) have seen significant growth since the 2000s. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( February 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia.
