Türk Televizyon Dizisi Avrupa Yakası’nda (2004-2009) Shylock’un Yeniden Yorumu

Öz

Shakespeare’ın eserleri, yüzyıllar önce kaleme alınmış ol-malarına rağmen, insanlık durumuna dair evrensel tema-ları ele alış biçimi sayesinde günümüzde hâlâ güncelliğini korumaktadır. Bu çalışma, Venedik Taciri’ndeki Ötekilik an-latısının, özellikle Avrupa Yakası dizisindeki Burhan Altın-top karakteri üzerinden modern Türk toplumunda nasıl yeniden canlandığını incelemeyi amaçlar. Shakespeare, er-ken modern Avrupa’da Yahudilerin maruz kaldığı dışlan-mışlığı güçlü bir şekilde betimleyerek farklı kültürlerdeki marjinal gruplara yönelik empatiyi artırır. Benzer biçimde Avrupa Yakası, geleneksel Anadolu insanının kentli ve seç-kin çevrelerde yaşadığı zorlukları görünür kılarak benzer bir dışlanma deneyimini güncel bir bağlama taşır. Bu ça-lışma, Shylock ile Burhan Altıntop’u Ötekilik kavramı ekse-ninde karşılaştıran karakter odaklı bir yakın okuma yön-temi kullanır. Tokat aksanı, bıyığı ve Anadolu yaşam tarzıy-la Burhan, Nişantaşı’nın Avrupai ve elit atmosferi içinde kültürel Öteki olarak konumlanır. Zenginlik, eğitim ve aidi-yet vurgularıyla kendini bu çevreye kabul ettirmeye yönelik çabaları, kimlik arayışındaki kırılganlığını açığa çıkarır. Burhan’ın, dışlanmışlık ve hor görülme hissini ifade eder-ken Shylock’un ünlü sözlerine başvurması ise Shakespea-re’ın dilinin Türk toplumsal gerilimlerine uyarlanarak yeni-den anlam kazandığını gösterir. Elde edilen bulgular, Bur-han’ın Shylock’tan ödünç aldığı ifadelerin, erken modern İngiliz edebiyatıyla günümüz Türk medyası arasında dış-lanma deneyimine dair ortak bir duygusal zemin oluştur-duğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Bu çalışma, Shakespeare’ın Ötekilik temasının mizah, aksan ve performans yoluyla ye-relleştirilerek modern sınıf ve kültür ayrımlarını görünür kıldığını göstererek alana özgün bir katkı sunar.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Ötekilik
• Sınıf Ayrımları
• Shylock
• Burhan Altıntop
• Avrupa Yakası
• Venedik Taciri

Shylock Revisited in the Turkish Television Series, Avrupa Yakasi (2004-2009)

Öz

Despite being written centuries ago, Shakespeare’s works remain pertinent for their exploration of universal themes that illuminate contemporary forms of suffering. This study aims to investigate how Shakespeare’s articulation of Otherness in The Merchant of Venice resonates within mod-ern Turkish culture, particularly through the character Burhan Altıntop in the popular Turkish comedy series Avru-pa Yakası. Shakespeare adeptly portrays the social margin-alization of Jews, the Others of early modern Europe, evok-ing sympathy for marginalized groups across cultures. Simi-larly, Avrupa Yakası depicts the struggles of traditional Ana-tolian individuals navigating urban, elite spaces, revealing parallel dynamics of exclusion. The method of this study is a character-driven close reading that juxtaposes Shylock and Burhan Altıntop through the notion of Otherness. Burhan—distinguished by his Tokat accent, mustache, and Anatolian lifestyle—occupies the role of the cultural outsider among the refined, Europeanized elite of Nişantaşı. His persistent efforts to assimilate, expressed through exaggerated claims of wealth, education, and belonging, underscore his fraught negotiation of identity. Significantly, Burhan directly bor-rows Shylock’s famous lines to articulate his own experienc-es of rejection and indignity, demonstrating how Shake-speare’s language is recontextualized to give voice to Turkish socio-cultural tensions. The findings indicate that Burhan’s adaptations of Shylock’s words reveal a shared emotional grammar of exclusion that bridges early modern English lit-erature and contemporary Turkish media. This study con-tributes to the literature by showing how Shakespearean Otherness can be localized through performance, accent, and humour, thereby exposing modern class divisions and cultural hierarchies. Ultimately, it demonstrates Shake-speare’s continued relevance as a framework for interpreting social marginalization across diverse contexts.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Otherness
• Class divisions
• Shylock
• Burhan Altintop
• Avrupa Yakasi
• The Merhant of Venice

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