Tarkan's Geççek from a celebrity capital perspective: the reflection of the political polarisation in post-pandemic Turkey in the reception of a pop song

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dc.contributor.authorYeginsu, Ipek
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-04T18:55:43Z
dc.date.available2026-04-04T18:55:43Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractWhen Turkish pop music megastar Tarkan released his single Ge & ccedil;& ccedil;ek (It'll Pass) on 17 February 2022, its ambiguous lyrics supposedly filled with political innuendos generated speculations among vast segments of the public, journalists and politicians. Yet, Tarkan has not become a politicised figure overnight. The song owes its impactful reception to the gradual change in the singer's communication strategy on social media combined with the increasing political polarisation in the country that ultimately found its expression in the realm of popular music. Using Olivier Driessens's concept of celebrity capital, this paper analyses the change in the content and style of Tarkan's Twitter posts (2010-2023) that became particularly evident after he moved to Germany in 2017. It claims that the singer had been gradually converting his celebrity capital in music into political capital through statements on environmental and socio-political issues, the tones of which also became more anti-government and explicitly pro-opposition over time. This, in turn, resulted in the song's lyrics being perceived as politically charged in an environment already marked by increased political polarisation, particularly around the conservative vs. secularist divide.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19392397.2025.2501535
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19392397.2025.2501535
dc.identifier.endpage108
dc.identifier.issn1939-2397
dc.identifier.issn1939-2400
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-105005782511
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage84
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2025.2501535
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/10541
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001489714100001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofCelebrity Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20260402
dc.snmzKA_Scopus_20260402
dc.subjectCelebrity Activism
dc.subjectTurkey
dc.subjectPop Music
dc.subjectTarkan
dc.subjectPolitical Polarisation
dc.titleTarkan's Geççek from a celebrity capital perspective: the reflection of the political polarisation in post-pandemic Turkey in the reception of a pop song
dc.typeArticle

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