Abstract Turkish drama series aired on state network TRT (Turkish Radio and Television) connect Ottoman history with contemporary events in Turkey and have been instrumental agents in the government’s attempts to shape the political reality in accordance with its political agenda. This article examines the narrative cultivated by the popular historical drama Payitaht: Abdülhamid (2017) by using the dramatistic process framework. In doing so, it analyzes the overlapping narrative of historical and contemporary in-groups and out-groups. Payitaht: Abdülhamid recreates the current political divides on screen in Turkey by assigning guilt and redeemer statuses to certain characters in the drama series and by providing a longitudinal perspective of Turkish history. Payitaht: Abdülhamid is, therefore, a political tool used by the ruling AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi [Justice and Development Party]) government to cultivate and propagate a worldview that connects the Ottoman past to contemporary politics. Furthermore, Payitaht: Abdülhamid feeds the existent divisions within Turkey by reinforcing the AKP’s political discourse on key domestic and foreign policy issues and helps to push its agenda to the fore.

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帝国反击：在土耳其电视台传播AKP的奥斯曼帝国叙事

在国家电视台TRT（土耳其广播电视台）上播出的抽象土耳其话剧系列将奥斯曼帝国的历史与土耳其的当代事件联系在一起，并已成为政府根据其政治议程塑造政治现实的工具。本文通过使用戏剧化的过程框架，考察了流行的历史剧《佩塔塔特：阿卜杜勒哈米德》（2017）的叙事方式。在此过程中，它分析了历史和当代群体内和群体外的重叠叙述。薪酬：阿卜杜勒哈米德（Abdülhamid）通过为电视剧中的某些角色分配罪恶感和救赎者身份，并提供土耳其历史的纵向视角，来重现土耳其当前的政治分歧。收入：因此，阿卜杜勒哈米德（Abdülhamid）执政的AKP（正义与发展党）政府使用的一种政治工具，用于培养和传播将奥斯曼帝国的历史与当代政治联系起来的世界观。此外，《 Payitaht：Abdülhamid》通过加强AKP在国内外重要政策问题上的政治论述，为土耳其境内现有的分歧提供了养料，并有助于将其议程推到了前台。