What did the Turkish climate movement learn from a global policy failure? Frame shift after the Copenhagen Climate Summit

Baykan, Barış Gençer

doi:10.1080/14683849.2019.1601563

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“…It gained further prominence during the drought of 2007, coinciding with the worldwide broadcast of the documentary An Inconvenient Truth (Uzelgün and Castro 2015). Since the COP (Conference of Parties) 11 ( 2005), protests and campaigns staged by activist groups from Turkey, in solidarity with the global climate movement, have put pressure on big polluter countries, as well as on Turkey's government, to take action and adopt the Kyoto Protocol (Baykan 2019). These groups were influential in bringing CC into the mainstream, culminating in Turkey relenting and signing the Kyoto Protocol in August 2009.…”

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Turkish press climate crisis coverage (2018–2019): elements of disconnect in discourses and the representation of solutions

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2022

New Perspect. Turk.

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Recent studies have shown that the media in developing countries recognizes the anthropogenic impact on climate change, while ignoring the mitigation and adaptation responsibilities of national political actors. This article addresses the discursive motives underlying the disconnect between the impact of climate change and the responsibility of those in positions of political power. This study analyzes Turkish news articles and columns on climate change published in three newspapers with different political orientations between June 2018 and January 2020, a period during which the school strike movement and other local uprisings and debates began. It claims that news related to national climate policy largely omits or obscures references to the anthropogenic causes of climate change, to the degree that the political responsibility of tackling it remains unaddressed and absolves readers and politicians from taking action. The article also aims to underline the impact of political parallelism in terms of the print media’s approach to the government’s neoliberal economic policy and its duty to tackle climate change. Finally, it argues that these approaches generate specific types of environmental discourses which are embodied in newspapers’ conceptions of nature, their solutions to climate change, and the actors of those solutions proposed by newspapers.

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Turkish press climate crisis coverage (2018–2019): elements of disconnect in discourses and the representation of solutions

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2022

New Perspect. Turk.

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“…Major environmental campaigns are the ones against gold-mining in Bergama (Çoban,2004) and in Cerattepe, Artvin (Pehlevan&Şakacı, 2018) against coal plants in Gerze (Akbulut, 2014) and in Aliağa, İzmir (Turhan et al, 2019), dam construction in Hasankeyf (Kadirbeyoğlu, 2018), nuclear power plant in Akkuyu (Şahin&Ün, 2021), gas power plant in Ordu (Knudsen, 2015), hydro-electric power plants in Black Sea region (Aksu et al, 2016;Hamsici, 2011) third bridge on Bosphorus, İstanbul (Paker, 2018). Climate movement (Baykan, 2019) grew in the 2000s and the Gezi uprising in 2013 was a reaction to urban policies and grievances against the government (Uncu, 2016;Erensü & Kahraman, 2017).…”

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Türk GDO Karşıtı Hareketinde Çok Katmanlı Çerçeveleme

BAYKAN

2022

Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Dergisi

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Studies on framing between local and global contexts mostly focus on the ways in which local actors draw upon universalizing claims. Political and economic processes within which the GMOs are produced, traded and regulated invite an exploration of different scales -from local to national, from regional to global. This study aims to analyze the multilayered framing activities of Turkish anti-GM mobilization. In October 2004, 'No to GMOs Platform' (GDO'ya Hayır Platformu) in Turkey organized the Monster Tomato Tour which was the continuation of Friends of the Earth's Bite Back Campaign against the World Trade Organization ruling on GMOs. Platform activists defined their strategy by linking GMOs with environmental, agricultural, and economic issues that are relevant to Turkish political and economic realities and resonate with a larger frame in relation to global aspects of the controversy. Based on interviews with key national and local anti-GM activists in 12 cities conducted between 2007 and 2009, this paper probes how and why core tasks of framing process -diagnostic, prognostic, motivational -relate to local, national, and global scales. The Turkish anti-GM movement developed i) diagnostic frames, identifying a problem and attribute blame at global scale ii) prognostic frames, offering actions and plans at national scale iii) motivational frames being a rationale for action mainly at the local scale. The movement bridged a vast political space by framing the GM issue in a multilayered way by interpreting the grievances and claims locally, nationally, and globally. The movement represents a broad coalition of environmental and health concerns, agriculture issues and consumer rights. Activists were able to create a coherent narrative by connecting different scales towards a nation-wide ban on GMOs.

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What did the Turkish climate movement learn from a global policy failure? Frame shift after the Copenhagen Climate Summit

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Turkish press climate crisis coverage (2018–2019): elements of disconnect in discourses and the representation of solutions

Turkish press climate crisis coverage (2018–2019): elements of disconnect in discourses and the representation of solutions

Türk GDO Karşıtı Hareketinde Çok Katmanlı Çerçeveleme

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