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 * Kemel (played by Sonny Caldinez) was a wrestler from Turkey ([[The Evil of the Daleks]]).
 * There was a T-MAT terminal in Izmir ([[The Seeds of Death]]).
 * The Doctor thought he might have been wounded at Gallipoli ([[The Sea Devils]]).
 * The Brigadier was impressed with the muscular-control of Music Hall "Turkish delight of the East", belly-dancer, Scheherezade ([[Planet of the Spiders]]).

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-'''[[Wikipedia:Turkey|TURKEY]]''' is located in south eastern [[:Category:Europe|Europe]], but it is also considered to be within the [[:Category:Middle East|Middle East]].
+'''[[Wikipedia:Turkey|TURKEY]]''' is located in south eastern [[:Category:Europe|Europe]], but it is also considered to be part of [[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Asia]].
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 |'''Country Number (63)'''||1988||[[Selling Doctor Who|THIRD WAVE]]
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-|'''Region'''||[[:Category:Europe|Europe]] / [[:Category:Middle East|Middle East]]||
+|'''Region'''||[[:Category:Europe|Europe]] / [[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Asia]]||
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 |'''Television commenced'''||31 January 1968||
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 [[Category:Europe]]
-[[Category:Middle East]]
+[[Category:Australasia/Asia]]

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-'''[[Wikipedia:Turkey|TURKEY]]''' is located in south eastern [[:Category:Europe|Europe]].
+'''[[Wikipedia:Turkey|TURKEY]]''' is located in south eastern [[:Category:Europe|Europe]], but it is also considered to be within the [[:Category:Middle East|Middle East]].
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 |'''Country Number (63)'''||1988||[[Selling Doctor Who|THIRD WAVE]]
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-|'''Region'''||[[:Category:Europe|Europe]]||
+|'''Region'''||[[:Category:Europe|Europe]] / [[:Category:Middle East|Middle East]]||
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 |'''Television commenced'''||31 January 1968||
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 [[Category:Europe]]

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-==Novelisations (2010s)==
+==Novelisations and Books (2010s)==
 [[File:TurkeyBooks2000.JPG|right|thumb|500px|Turkish novelisations]]
 More recent Classic series books - translated and published in Turkey by Ithaki Yayinlari - include:
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 *'''[[Shada|SHADA]]''' (March 2014)
 *'''ÖLÜM ŞEHRI''' ([[City of Death]]) (December 2016)
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 ===[[Peter Cushing|PETER CUSHING]] Movies===
-The second of the two [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies screened in Turkey from '''16 December 1968''' under the title '''"Daleks Fezadan Saldiranlar 2150 Yili"'''.
+The second of the two [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies screened in Turkey from '''16 December 1968''' under the title '''"Daleks Fezadan Saldiranlar 2150 Yili"'''. It was subtitled.
 * [http://www.turkishposter.com/movie-poster/40/doctor-who-dalleks-fezadan-saldiranlar TURKISH MOVIE POSTERS]
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 ==Novelisations (1975)==
 [[File:Turkey KKK Novel.JPG|right|thumb|350px|Turkish novelisation]]
-Publisher Remzi Kitabevi of Istanbul released seven of the early Hartnell, Troughton and Pertwee Target novelisations in 1975. They used the same artwork as that adorning the Target novels. These were released under the name '''"DOKTOR KIM"''':
+Publisher Remzi Kitabevi of Istanbul released six of the early Hartnell, Troughton and Pertwee Target novelisations in 1975. They used the same artwork as that adorning the Target novels. These were released under the name '''"DOKTOR KIM"''':
 * '''DOKTOR KIM VE DALEKLER''' (''The Daleks'') ([[The Daleks]])
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 * '''DOKTOR KIM VE GIZLI SILAH''' (''The Secret Weapon'') ([[Colony in Space]])
 * '''DOKTOR KIM VE DALEK BASKINI''' (''The Dalek Attack'') ([[Day of the Daleks]])
 * '''DOKTOR KIM VE PELADON GEZEGENI''' (''The Peladon Planet'') ([[The Curse of Peladon]])
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 Turkey is (we estimate) the '''63rd''' country to screen '''Doctor Who''' (see [[Selling Doctor Who]].)
-[[File:MoviePoster.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Turkish Dalek movie poster]]
+[[File:MoviePoster.JPG|right|thumb|350px|Turkish Dalek movie poster]]
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 * [http://www.turkishposter.com/movie-poster/40/doctor-who-dalleks-fezadan-saldiranlar TURKISH MOVIE POSTERS]
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 ==[[BBC Records]]==
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 ==TV listings==

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 ==Turkey in Doctor Who==
+*In [[The Crusade]], Leicester says "The Devil's Horde, Saracen and Turk, possess Jerusalem".
 * The Trojan War was in Asia Minor, which is now Turkey ([[The Myth Makers]]).
 *The Trojan War is mentioned in [[The Ark]].

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 * The Trojan War was in Asia Minor, which is now Turkey ([[The Myth Makers]]).
 * Kemel (played by Sonny Caldinez) was a wrestler from Turkey ([[The Evil of the Daleks]]).
 * There was a T-MAT terminal in Izmir ([[The Seeds of Death]]).
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 * The Doctor acquired a hookah pipe from a Cash N Carry in Constantinople ([[The Deadly Assassin]]).
 * The Doctor mentions Troy in [[The Stones of Blood]].
 * The Rani visited the Trojan War during her travels ([[The Mark of the Rani]]).
 * And it was in Turkey that actor Roger Delgado (the Master) was tragically killed, on 18 June 1973.

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 '''[[Wikipedia:Turkey|TURKEY]]''' is located in south eastern [[:Category:Europe|Europe]].
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 ==[[BBC Records]]==
 [[File:ComedyTurkey.jpg|thumb|right|150px|..."a comedy show" in Turkey; Gary Lee, Observer, 13 January 1980]]
 Turkey is not named in any of our main [[BBC Records]] sources.
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 '''Doctor Who''' '''did''' later screen in '''1988'''; this places the sale over a year after the 1987 listing from '''The Eighties''' was compiled which is why Turkey is not recorded there.
-Of course, given that he also claims that '''"Shada"''' is airing "on Saturday", Lee might have completely made up the claim that '''Doctor Who''' had aired in Turkey...
+Of course, given that he also claims that '''"[[Shada]]"''' is airing in the UK "on Saturday", Lee might have completely made up the claim that '''Doctor Who''' had aired in Turkey...
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 ** The Doktor is a Zaman Lordlari
 ** The Daleks have ape-like servants called Ogronlar
 ==Stories bought and broadcast==
 ===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
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 Four stories, 14 episodes:
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 If any episodes did air in the late 1970s (per the ''Observer'' and '''DWM'''), we have not been able to find any listings. Turkish newspapers have been checked for 1977 to 1981, but no direct billings for '''Doctor Who''' (or its Turkish equivalents) could be found.
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 There is no clear record that Turkey screened '''Doctor Who''' again.
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 Newspapers for 1977 to 1981 have been checked, and no listings for '''Doctor Who''' or its Turkish equivalent have been found, which possibly puts lie to the claim that the series played in Turkey as a "comedy" for "many years".
 The 1988 TV listings have come from ''Gazete Arsiv''. (These are viewable online at [http://gazetearsivi.milliyet.com.tr/Ara.aspx?araKelime=%22dr%20who%22&isAdv=false GAZETE ARSIV]. (It's free but you have to register to access the pages.)
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 *[http://www.doctorwho.gen.tr/forum.php TURKISH FAN FORUM (New Series)]
+*This bizarre YouTube clip isn't from Turkey (it has often been mislabelled as being such online), it is actually a spoof, made in 2012 by UK filmmaker [http://cdpoole.com/portfolio/dtp-beedeer/ Christopher Poole]. We've included it here because... well, why not!
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 ==Turkey in Doctor Who==