This study examines the role of the press in the consolidation and dissemination of the Turkish national identity in the single-party era with a social constructionist approach. Within the context of press-government relations and in line with the main peculiarities of Kemalist nationalism, the research takes a cross section and demonstrates how the Turkish national identity that was manufactured by the Kemalist power was represented, discursively reproduced and disseminated via the newspapers in the mid-1930s. The research is primarily based on a sample of newspaper articles retrieved from the archives of the Beyazıt State Library. The sample consists of articles published in Cumhuriyet, Akşam, and Son Posta, between 1934 and 1937. Data are analyzed complementarily by content analysis to describe the intensity, and discourse analysis to obtain an in-depth understanding of the framing of nationalist representations. It is observed that newspapers displayed very limited dissociations from the Kemalist arguments. The conclusion of this dissertation is that newspapers played a significant role in the dissemination and consolidation of the Turkish national identity in the single-party period, by mediating the underlying framework of the nation and by employing discursive practices that mostly ratified, reproduced, and diffused the discourses of Kemalist nationalism.
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Kitabın Adı: |
The Role of the Mainstream Newspapers in the Consolidation of the Turkish National |
Yazan: |
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Dizi Adı: |
Tarih - 185 |
Baskı Adedi: |
100 |
Yayın Yılı: |
2017 |
Sayfa: |
381 |
Ebat: |
13.5 x 21 cm. |
Kağıt: |
Enzo 70 gr. |
Kapak: |
Bora Gürsoy |
Cilt/Kapak: |
250 gr. Mat, Amerikan Bristol, 4 renk |
ISBN/Barkod: |
978-605-2380-08-6 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLES
FIGURE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGY
Theoretical Framework:
Nationalism, National Identity, and Media
Modernization, Nation and Communication
Media and the Reproduction of Nation
Media, Representation and National Identity as Discourse
Methodology and Research Design
Aims and Objectives
Research Questions
The Time Span
Information on the Newspapers Scanned
Rationale for the Methods Used
Study Sample
b> CHAPTER 3 THE CONTEXT THAT SHAPED THE TURKISH PRESS IN THE 1930s
National Identity and the Development of Turkey as a Modern Nation State
Historical Background on the Press-Government Relations within the Political Context of the Single-Party Rule
The Press in the Pre-Republican Period: 1919–1923
The Press and the Government: 1923-1925
The Press and the Government: 1926-1930
Press and the Government: 1931-1938
1931 and 1934 Press Laws: A Comparison
The Mobilization of Newspapers for Kemalist Propaganda within The Interwar Context
CHAPTER 4 NEWSPAPERS' KEMALIST ATTITUDE TOWARDS RACE, TURKIFICATION AND THE REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES
The Origins of Kemalist Nationalism
The Representation of Race in the Newspapers
The Kemalist National Identity and Religion
Nationalism and Religion during the War of Independence
The Kemalist Project, Religion and National Identity
Modernization, Secularization, and Islam
Religious Identities and Citizenship
Official Nationalism and Turkification
The Representation of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Newspapers
CHAPTER 5 THE LEITMOTIFS OF OFFICIAL NATIONALISM AND THEIR COVERAGE IN DAILY NEWSPAPERS
The Reproduction of the "Ottoman versus Republican" Dichotomy
The Representation of Women in Relation to the National Identity
The Representation of Youth and Children
The Representation of Armed Forces
The Representation of Atatürk
CHAPTER 6 OFFICIAL NATIONALISM AND THE REPRODUCTION OF "NATION" IN DAILY NEWSPAPERS
Newspapers and the Representation of the National Community: Findings and Discussion
The Imagination of "Us" as the National Community
References to "Nation" and "National"
The Representation of "Turks" and "Turkishness" in the Newspapers of the Period: Findings and Discussion
References to "Turk"
CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION APPENDIX ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS THAT CONSTRUCT THE CORPUS OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
