Turkey and Turks in the German media

Authors

  • Necla Mora

Keywords:

Social memory, Prejudice, Representation, Image, Imagery, Media.

Abstract

It is known that the prejudices, which have emerged in the historical process, are engraved in the social memory of the nations; conveyed from the past to the future in language, art, literature, history and many other fields; and reproduced via media especially in the periods of crisis.

Firstly, Turkish-German relations must be examined in the historical process in order to understand how Turkey and Turks are represented in the German media. Accordingly, Turkish-German relations are also important in terms of drawing a general framework on how the West, which has been preserving its topicality for centuries, sees Turkey.

How the subjects and groups are represented in the media texts and what kind of an image are formed in relation with them reveals the social memory of the countries in which the media texts are produced.

The prejudices which have emerged in the social memory of the German people in the historical process have an effect in forming the negative image of Turks by being reproduced via active media especially in the periods of crisis. A negative image of Turks is brought forward with the concepts such as human rights violations, fundamentalism, oppression against the women and the minorities, Kurdish-Turkish discrimination and Alawi-Sunni discrimination.

German media uses as evidence and tries to emphasize their justness on the publications, photographs and images that take place in the Turkish media in terms of especially the concepts mentioned above.

Media texts are dialogues which are formed between the target audience and the narrator who reflects the opinions of the authority elites that are the sources of news. For that reason, representation forms of Turkey and Turks will be associated with the historical prejudices and analyzed with the critical discourse analysis approach in the scope of this study.

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Author Biography

Necla Mora

Necla Mora

Address: Atatürk University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism Central Campus 25240 Erzurum

E-Mail: [email protected]

Associate Professor: Communication Sciences 2007

Doctorate: İstanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Journalism and Public Relations

1999

“Anti-Turkism in Germany and Example News Analysis from Der Spiegel for the Effect of the Written Media”

Postgraduate: İstanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Journalism and Public Relations

1988

“Journalism Education in Turkey Comparatively with the European Countries”

Undergraduate: Hacettepe University, Faculty of Social and Administrative Sciences, Department of German Language and Literature

1982

“Die Nebensaetze mit 'dass' im Roman von Heinrich Böll 'Und sagte kein einziges Wort'”

 

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Published

2009-10-28

How to Cite

Mora, N. (2009). Turkey and Turks in the German media. Journal of Human Sciences, 6(2), 606–625. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/856

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Sociology