The Role of U.S. Drones in the Roboski Massacre

Eralp, Doga Ulas

doi:10.1080/10402659.2015.1094325

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“…Erdoğan would be angry journalism” made its first major appearance in the mainstream media in 2011 when Turkish jets bombed civilian smugglers at the Iraq-Turkey border. Turkish government’s official statement framed the bombing as an “accident” where smugglers had been mistaken for PKK militants (Eralp, 2015). A broadcast ban was imposed on related news.…”

Section: “Mr Erdoğan Would Be Angry” Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Democratic backsliding and the media: the convergence of news narratives in Turkey

Över

2021

Media, Culture & Society

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This article presents how the rise of Justice and Development Party (AKP) to political power in Turkey transformed journalists’ professional practices as to lead to a decline in the plurality of opinions presented in the media. After AKP’s second electoral victory in 2007, political trials, property transfers, and dismissals wrapped in a discourse of punishment and purge of the “nation’s enemies” destabilized long established power hierarchies of secularists, religious-conservatives, Kurds, and leftists in Turkey. The destabilization was caused by the state’s changing attitude toward these identity groups, and in the media it lead to shifts in journalists’ status positions and emotions. Varying professional responses triggered by these shifts explain the convergence to a dominant singular political narrative in the media. This argument builds on narrative evidence collected between 2012 and 2014 via in-depth interviews, newspaper articles, and journalists’ memoires. With a from-below account, the article presents the effects of destabilized hierarchies on journalistic practice. In the example of media, it invites scholars to rethink contemporary democratic backsliding in terms of the links between state actors and non-state actors, on the one hand, and social actors’ power positions, political identities, and professional practices, on the other.

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Section: “Mr Erdoğan Would Be Angry” Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%