The Significance of Wednesday in Turkish Culture and Current Events

An Introduction

#Çarşamba, or “Wednesday” in Turkish, has been buzzing on social media these days. Superficially, the hashtag could seem simple, but it holds depths of meanings that stretch within the culture and might even be event-specific for this day. The article delves into the cultural basis pertaining to this Wednesday’s concept in Turkey and the reason why it was tripled recently.

Cultural Importance of Wednesday

Days carry different meanings in Turkish culture. While Wednesday, or Çarşamba, does not carry any real negative-positive connotation, it marks an important midweek point, which could most of the time be time for reviewing everything done and still left to be done. This is a time associated with market days in some areas in which, usually, the people come together to have their weekly market.

What could possibly be behind the trend?

Quite obviously, the #Çarşamba phenomenon in social media is related to something that is either said or done on a Wednesday. For instance:

Government Announcement: Important political announcements, or even economic.
Sports Event: Midweek football matches mostly pick a lot of attention.
Cultural Event: Popular TV show’s latest episode releases.

Recent Event

To know for what reason #Çarşamba can be popularly trending, events might be:

A very important initiating policy. Popular airing of a tele-serial then. Sports results that have caught the public’s fancy.