On the cultural side, I would say the Turkish soap operas are cutting edge, better produced than Spanish language ones. Of course, soap operas are not really that prestigious.

Regarding innovation, I wonder how much role social friction plays. I'm not turkish, but my understanding is that there is a lot of interpersonal negotiations in turkish dealings, who knows who, who owns a favour to whom. Which is related to corruption. You don't have that as much in the West, when you deal with someone it doesn't matter as much who you are and who you know.