Power, Patronage and Press Freedom: The Political Economy of Turkey’s Media

Waldman, Simon A.; Çalışkan, Emre

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02710-0_17

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“…Erdoğan used this abortive coup to justify a sweeping purge of political opponents from media institutions. Since the coup, more than 170 outlets have been shut down in addition to the arrests of dozens of journalists ( Waldman and Caliskan, 2019 ). This policy continues and has involved sustained pressure on traditional and digital media and placed Turkey in a state of emergency for more than 2 years.…”

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Where news could not inspire change: TRT World as a party broadcaster

Elswah

Howard

2021

Journalism

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Turkey has vastly increased the scale of its investment in public diplomacy tools. Although Turkey is considered one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists, its media market is one of the fastest-growing in the world. In 2015, the Istanbul-based English-language TRT World was launched with the slogan ‘where news inspires change’, The channel promised to provide impartial coverage of global news, with its experienced journalists addressing global audiences. In this study, we investigate the interplay between public diplomacy and editorial policies at TRT World. After conducting in-depth interviews with TRT World journalists, we argue that the channel has shifted its style from being Turkey’s public diplomacy tool into becoming the AKP’s voice to the world. By examining TRT World, this study provides a framework to understand how international broadcasters operate in countries where media freedom is restricted.

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Where news could not inspire change: TRT World as a party broadcaster

Elswah

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2021

Journalism

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“…Additionally, different articles of the penal code (such as Articles 132, 137, 161 and 162) bear directly or indirectly upon the press and were vaguely defined so that the judiciary could use them against journalists when the “state interest” was in danger (cf. Waldman and Çalışkan 2019 , p. 386).…”

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“…However, mainstream newspapers, voluntarily or involuntarily, turned a blind eye to all human rights violations (cf. Waldman and Çalışkan 2019 , p. 389). Some journalists working for left-wing or pro-Kurdish newspapers were killed by “unknown people” and the Turkish government made no serious effort to investigate these killings.…”

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Media capture strategies in new authoritarian states: the case of Turkey

Coşkun

2020

Publizistik

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This article focuses on the forced transformation of the mass media as an institution in new authoritarian states. It aims to understand the methods used by theses states to control and manipulate the flux of news through the mass media. Turkey’s media system has been chosen as a case study because the recent political developments in the country offer worrisome und devastating examples. This article aims to answer to the following question: How can we classify methods and strategies used by the AKP government to capture the media in Turkey? Why and how do the methods used by the AKP government differ from those applied by previous governments? To answer to these questions, the article draws on media capture as a framework of analysis. It argues that the AKP captured the media by using new strategies which can be divided into three overlapping and interconnected categories: capture by creating its own private media, capture through financial sanctions, and capture by intimidating and criminalizing journalists.

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When does bureaucracy function in autocratizing regimes? the court of auditors in Turkey

Soyaltin-Colella

2022

Turkish Studies

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Power, Patronage and Press Freedom: The Political Economy of Turkey’s Media

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Where news could not inspire change: TRT World as a party broadcaster

Where news could not inspire change: TRT World as a party broadcaster

Media capture strategies in new authoritarian states: the case of Turkey

When does bureaucracy function in autocratizing regimes? the court of auditors in Turkey

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