{"id":24488,"date":"2020-04-26T16:07:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T10:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/turkish-series-showcases-life-with-values-pakistan-pm\/"},"modified":"2020-04-26T16:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T10:37:32","slug":"turkish-series-showcases-life-with-values-pakistan-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24488","title":{"rendered":"Dirili\u015f: Ertu\u011frul | Turkish series showcases life with values: Pakistan PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Turkish television series Resurrection: Ertugrul is an \u201cinteresting\u201d drama which shows Islamic culture, said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prime Minister Imran Khan shares his views over PTV telecast of famous Turkish drama serial Dirili\u015f: Ertu\u011frul; it will make our youth learn about Islamic history and ethics <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pymAPbJFLr\">pic.twitter.com\/pymAPbJFLr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Prime Minister&#39;s Office (@PakPMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PakPMO\/status\/1253766993955696643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is part of history in which values of Islamic culture have been showcased,\u201d Khan told journalists in Islamabad on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giveme5.co\/dirilis\">Click here to watch the Serial<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State-run Pakistan Television (PTV) late Saturday launched the first episode of the popular Turkish drama series that highlights Muslim history during 13th century to coincide with first day of Ramadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan said a \u201cthird-hand culture was being promoted in Pakistan due to Hollywood and Bollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want our children and youth to learn where is the difference and that we also have our own culture,\u201d he said, referring to the release of the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PTV dubbed the series in Urdu after Khan visited Turkey last year and was informed about the importance of the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expressing \u201cdisappointment\u201d about content generated by Bollywood, he said \u201cit is badly effecting our children; schools and drug culture was flourishing while sex and crimes related to children were increasing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The broadcast of Resurrection: Ertugrul in Urdu aims to inform viewers that there is \u201canother way and style of life laced with values,\u201d Khan said. \u201cIt directly impacts our family system \u2026 remember, the family system collapses when immorality rises in the society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often described as the Turkish Game of Thrones, the series is woven around 13th century Anatolia and tells the story prior to the establishment of the Ottoman Empire. It illustrates the struggle of Ertugrul Gazi, father of the empire&#8217;s first leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after the 45-minute long first episode was broadcast, #ErtugrulUrduPTV was trending with viewers welcoming the series as they shared \u201cscenes\u201d from the first episode on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGreat initiative taken by PMIK [Prime Minister Imran Khan] to make the younger generation know the magnificent and historical past of the Muslims. Indeed a visionary leader,\u201d wrote Twitter user Dr Uzair Noor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery Muslim feels proud of Ertugrul series irrespective of the nationality,\u201d a Pakistani citizen reflecting on the series told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey-Pakistan Parliamentary group Chairman and Justice and Development (AK) Party lawmaker Ali Sahin thanked Khan for the launch of the series for an Urdu-speaking audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the name of our nation I kindly thank to The Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\">@ImranKhanPTI<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PTVHomeofficial\">@PTVHomeOfficial<\/a> for airing <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DirilisDizisi\">@DirilisDizisi<\/a> [Ertugrul Gazi] in Urdu,\u201d said Sahin, who studied in Pakistan and speaks Urdu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PTV management took to Twitter to thank viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDear PTV viewers, the PTV management would like to thank you for the most encouraging feedback for Episode 1, and for making it the TopTrend on Twitter Pakistan!,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia agreed last September to fight the rising global trend of Islamophobia, mainly in the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trio of nations decided to launch a television channel dedicated to confronting challenges posed by Islamophobia and to produce films on Muslim heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish television series Resurrection: Ertugrul is an \u201cinteresting\u201d drama which shows Islamic culture, said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. Prime Minister Imran Khan shares his views over PTV telecast of famous Turkish drama serial Dirili\u015f: Ertu\u011frul; it will make our youth learn about Islamic history and ethics pic.twitter.com\/pymAPbJFLr &mdash; Prime Minister&#39;s Office (@PakPMO) April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}