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"We are on the road to a great economic revolution," said the Venezuelan leader before leaving "the sister Turkey."
Letter from Istanbul
No sooner had the inauguration ceremonies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan been completed on Monday, 9 July in Ankara than the Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro, host of Turkey among some twenty heads of state that day, had only one idea in mind: visit the set of the television series Dirilis-Ertugrul the "Game of Thrones" Turkish.
Unconditional this war saga produced by the public channel TRT and broadcast in 65 countries around the world, including Venezuela, Mr. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, immortalized their visit of Beykoz studios in Istanbul by posing in period costumes.
Propaganda work
A photograph shows the smiling couple: he wears the traditional Turkish hat (börk), the finger girdled with the ring of the Kayi tribe (one of the tribes of the Turkish Oghuz branch in the Middle Ages); she, her head encircled by a plum-colored veil. It was necessary for Maduro to penetrate in depth the springs of the "soft power" of his counterpart Erdogan, qualified by him of "leader of the new multipolar world" .
Adored by the Turkish homes that do not have not lost an episode since 2014, the series Dirilis- Ertugrul tells, on a kitsch and romanticized, the story of Ertugrul Gazi (died in 1281), the father of Osman I er the founder of the Ottoman Empire. The action takes place in the XIII e century, the costumes are outrageous, the wars are permanent, the enemy is the perfect choice.
The story tells the epic of the valiant Ertugrul, who, in quest of a homeland for his tribe, the Kayi, must face the Knights Templar (season one), the Mongols (season two), the Byzantines (season three) not to mention the traitors and spies desperate to prevent him from reaching its goal. "Birth of a Nation" says the subtitle
More than a simple television series, it is a political propaganda work destined to …
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