Do Poles watch Turkish soaps?

Has the Turkish TV soap plague affected Poland yet? I've heard even in South America, the telenovela Mecca ppl are watching them. The music is good but the writing is dumb. The good ones are all from the 2003-2014 era. Newer Turkish soaps are repetitive dross.

I once briefly watched a little bit. Nice shots. Not that I tried to follow the plot. Something new and something a bit different than other soap operas perhaps. But I don't watch any. The first one of them all in Poland was "Isaura".

Brazilian not Turkish....

Wspaniałe stulecie (about Suleyman and Roxelana) was the first big Turkish hit in Poland, there have been others since... One friend's mother has given up latin american soaps for Turksih soaps...

Latin American ones were better imo. Less crybaby drama and less abuse on women. Much hotter women as well.

Also a weird point on Isaura.... it was repeated a number of years ago but the dialogue wasn't in Portuguese but rather a version dubbed into Latin American Spanish with the Polish voice over on top... very weird, does anyone know if that's what was originally shown on Polish tv?

Isaura The Slavegirl was shown late at night on Channel 4 in the UK when the station first started in the 80s; nobody really watched it there, except for novelty value, since there isn't any need for dubbed soaps when there's such a quantity of low quality output from Australia to keep small minds absorbed in pap. Sometimes the UK shows American ones on the minor channels, however most of theirs are usually too poor quality even for daytime cable TV channels with a handful of viewers.

As I recall, it was hugely popular in Russia a couple of decades ago. There was a scandal about the show because in the original nineteenth century novel (actually worth reading, as are Guimaraes other novel, The Seminarist and his poem The Origin of Menstruation), the character was black however the TV version unfortunately changed the character to a white woman.

Turkish ones seem a step too far in Poland and I'd doubt that any of those Egyptian ones would be popular. It's amazing that they show the grim South American ones; I wonder what the viewing figures are.