"Temsiller, tıpkı matematik denklemleri gibi birbirlerini iptal etmemelidir." (Steet, 2000:10)

Abstract

The fact as a concept fills up various identities in a wide range and, furthermore, provides those various identities in a wide range with the opportunities of being able to be together. In the context of the fact other, when placing us and others who are not from us, the important role which is committed by mass media (television and especially television series format) cannot be denied in creating the images of us and others. With the pre-recognition of the fact in the TV series called Foreign Sonin-law with higher ratings in Turkish television will conceptually and theoretically be discussed over the presentations of us and others. In the so-called series with a plot of a marriage that created mandatory relations between the members of two families one of which is from a city (Gaziantep) where the traditional and religious values are relatively considered important and the is from Greece, a country which is considered the opposite of what is nationally and religiously believed as right by the part; both nations become mirrors for each by the help of these families, and conflicts, arguments and differences between the nations are presented by the events series within individual relations level. In the example of the mentioned television series, the existence of as international actors in Turkish television, how and who is forced to be the is explicated; individual relations and collective perceptions as premise/sequent, and Greece placed as other-foreign with its citizens in Turkish community are discussed with the attributions imputed on them indirectly by mass media creating an other in the presentation mechanisms and the ways of using those mechanisms in the television series are evaluated with a critical point of view and a hermeneutic method.