Advertising in Turkey

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This paper discusses advertising in the Turkish market and particularly in the banking and financial services sector. In the Turkish market the single most important aspect for the advertiser or marketer is accounting for the Islamic culture and Shari'ah or Islamic law. In Turkey, politics, religion, and culture are all inter-related and must be considered in the development of a marketing plan and marketing collateral.

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"Advertising in Turkey is both an exercise in modern media development and an exercise in extreme cultural sensitivity and it is difficult to navigate between them. Past researchers have noted that Turkey is an evolving advertising market: "One of the major driving forces behind this transformation has been the rapidly growing media, which have promoted Western-style lifestyles, values, and consumption through private radio and television channels" (Uray & Burnaz, 2003, para. 7). While developing advertising strategies and marketing collateral for a cosmopolitan area like Istanbul is less problematic than other regions of the country, great care must be made to accommodate the cultural factor in the Turkish market. This is especially important in the financial and banking sector in Turkey that not only operates within an Islamic culture but within a legal framework of Shari'ah or Islamic legal restrictions."

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