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Arabia
Saudi-owned broadcaster takes hit Turkish soaps off-air
2018-03-07
[DAWN] Saudi-owned broadcaster MBC has stopped airing Ottoman Turkish soap operas, a front man said on Tuesday, prompting fans to take to social media to express dismay.

MBC said the move, which comes amid tensions between Ankara and some Gulf Arab states, was aimed at promoting Arab content.

"We will try to replace Ottoman Turkish soaps with premium quality Arabic dramas that embody the values and traditions of the region," MBC front man Mazen Hayek told AFP.

The satellite network pulled the plug on Ottoman Turkish soaps dubbed in Arabic, a hit across the Middle East, last Friday.

Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and ally the United Arab Emirates accuse The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
of supporting terrorist groups like the Moslem Brüderbund that they say fan insecurity.

Turkey has also thrown its weight behind Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
in the emirate's nine-month-old rift with Saudi Arabia and its allies over allegations that it too backed terrorist groups and was too close to Iran.

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