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Evaluating The Sincerity Of Turkish Media Concerning The Struggle Aganist Substance Use And Addiction: The ‘Baron’ Discourse
(The Turkish Online Journal of Design, Art and Communication (TOJDAC), 2018) Işık, Mehmet; Eşitti, Şakir; Işık, Mehmet
This study questions the sincerity of Turkish media concerning its support for the struggle against substance use and addiction within the framework of the concept “baron” and aims to reveal with which lingual and discourse-related strategies the concept of “baron” is circulated. In this scope, news about people who smuggle a massive amount of drugs, published between January-November 2006 on the websites of the three top-seller newspapers, Hürriyet, Sözcü, and Sabah, are analyzed within the framework of the critical discourse analysis developed by Teun A. Van Dijk. The results of the analysis reveal that the news about people who smuggle drugs and who are named as “barons” by the Turkish media are transferred to the reader with an encouraging and exaggerated use of language, that drug trafficking is represented as a quite lucrative and adventurous profession which provides opportunities to quickly promote or possess fame and fortune, that instead of focusing on personal, social, and economic problems caused by drug trafficking, the problem is decontextualized by putting the emphasis on individual success stories of barons, the magnitude of smuggling, how cunning the smugglers are, how they could escape from prison or how they lived in their ordinary lives. While the media uses the term “poison merchant” even for kids who are pushed to criminal activities concerning narcotics/stimulants, the preference of the concept “baron” when it’s about people who engage in massive amounts of drug trafficking reveals a necessity to question the media’s sincerity concerning the struggle against substance use and addiction.
Extreme Nationalist Discourse In The Early Period Of The Turkish Republic And Its Reflection To The Turkish Media: The Case Of Gök-Börü Journal
(Siyasal: Journal of Political Sciences, 2018) Işık, Mehmet; Işık, Mehmet
Since its emergence, nationalism has been maintaining its influence on societies and media has enabled the re-production of nationalist ideologies, rituals, symbols, myths and discourses. Nationalism has changed and transformed both over time and among different political regimes and societies. Therefore, in order to fully understand the current state of nationalist ideologies, it is important to examine the historical development of nationalism and its reflections in media. This article examines the emergence and early period of Turkish nationalism and its reflections in the Turkish media. After the establishment of the Turkish Republic, particularly during the period between 1923 and 1950, new notions and institutions settled into the society. One of the most important notions during that time was nationalism given that the new Turkish Republic was established as a nation state. Turkish nationalism is mostly affected by political and social changes of the external world. Between the two world wars, extreme nationalist ideologies were popular all around the globe. This atmosphere of the external world also affected Turkish nationalist discourse and its reflections in the media. “Gök-börü” Journal is an important example of extreme Turkish nationalist discourse. The Journal was published in the Autumn of 1942 when Germany was pushing through Russia. This period was also a time when extreme nationalism and racism was occurring in the world and in Turkey, both were popular concepts. The journal can be differentiated from the other Turkic magazines published during the same period by its harsh rhetoric and ideas about blood nationalism.
From sacrificing sister to star sister: the history of queer celebrity in Turkey
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2022) Duyan, Yektanurşin
This article investigates the relationship between celebrity and queerness in Turkey by examining the social media celebrities Kerimcan Durmaz, Selin Ciğerci, and Murat Övüç. Although they resemble lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) celebrities from earlier periods, queer Turkish celebrities on digital platforms like Instagram can enrich our understanding of general changes to queer celebrity in modern Turkey. While the secular nature of the Turkish Republic is revered by many, Islam is often regarded as the essence of Turkish culture. In this context, queerness is stringently repressed by religiously informed national norms, with the stage representing the sole avenue for tacitly accepted queer expression.1 For this reason, most queer artists make use of Islamic discourse. For example, they emphasise their Muslim identity and make frequent references to Allah in conversations, interviews, performances, and songs. In essence, they emphasise that they are Muslims in all circumstances and under all conditions. Any attempt to analyse and understand queer celebrity and conservative discourse in Turkey calls for a reflection on Islam and secularism. Examining these connections will be the task of this study
Presentation Of Nuri Bilge Ceylan In Turkish Mass Media
(CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2018) Işık, Mehmet; Parlak, Zafer; Işık, Mehmet
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is the most famous Turkish film director with numerous international prizes. However, Ceylan’s presentation by the Turkish media is far from emphasizing his success, talent, creativity, style, technique, and cinematography. He often falls victim to undeserved and superficial criticism of “would be” critics who openly confess they did not watch Ceylan’s movies. He is sometimes portrayed as a political figure and critic of the present day Turkish politics and system. This article focuses on how two mainstream Turkish newspapers, columnists and microbloggers portrayed and reacted to Ceylan and his cinema after his film Winter Sleep won the top prize (the Golden Palm) at Cannes Film Festival in 2014 and the reasons behind this portrayal.
Representation of Labourers and the Labour Problem in the Late Turkish Cinema
(Frontpage Publications Limited, 2018) Işık, Mehmet; Işık, Mehmet
Since its beginnings, in Turkish cinema, due to various excuses, labourers have remained to be the invisible subject”, and their troubles to be the ignored problems. In the films featuring the labourer protagonist, on the other hand, the labourers are discussed in a melodramatic approach excluding their concrete economic problems and more within love or tragic family relationships. Even though an interest in labourers and their problems awakens in the first half of 1960s within the atmosphere of freedom the New Constitution provided, this interest lasts short, and after a period of stop, it wakes up again, but disappears completely following 1980 military intervention. While about twenty films addressing to the labour problem are produced from 1962 to the end of 1980, within the thirty years from that date until 2010, only three feature length films are produced. This indifference to labourers and their problems comes to a new breaking point with the film Zerre directed in 2012. This film is followed by Dust Cloth in 2015 and My Father’s Wings in 2016.

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