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Despite policies aimed at ensuring gender equality in the scientific community, women are underrepresented in various fields of science in many countries. While there is a complex set of social, cultural, economic and structural factors behind women's disadvantage, the media has a prominent place among these factors. This is because the media are one of the main sources of information that play a role in shaping attitudes and beliefs about science and scientists, especially in the absence of real-life role models. In this context, the media can encourage women and girls to turn to science, but it can also exclude them from scientific endeavors or limit their participation. Based on this potential of the media, this study analyses how women scientists are represented in science news in Turkey. The main purpose of this study is to determine the level of visibility of women scientists in the print media in Turkey, where women's participation in the world of science is high compared to many countries in the world. In this context, the problematic of the study is to determine whether the science news published in the newspapers BirGün, Hürriyet, and Yeni Şafak, which have different political orientations, serve to protect and reinforce gender inequalities in the world of science or to challenge these inequalities. In the study, a total of 527 science news items published on the websites of the aforementioned newspapers in January, May, and September 2019 were examined through content analysis. The study concluded that the proportion of women scientists in the newspapers is well below the proportion of women scientists in Turkey; although there are small differences between newspapers with different political orientations regarding their level of visibility and participation in different fields of science, they all underrepresent women scientists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conflicts between Arab regimes and peoples, conceptualized as a “spring” phenomenon, started with the demand for change in the name of freedoms and economic prosperity. The Arab Spring showed its most devastating effects in revolutionary-republican countries. It continued for a short time in Tunisia and Egypt, and was shaped according to internal power dynamics. The long-lasting spring in Libya and Syria has drawn regional and global powers into the process. While the people-regime conflicts’ security and humanitarian dimensions pulled Turkey into the process, it opened a new door for Iran’s sectarian expansionism. Thus, the question that comes to mind is how these foreign policy initiatives of Turkey and Iran, which were involved in the spring process for different reasons, were perceived in the Arab press. In this article, multiple methods are used as content analysis (CA) and discourse analysis (DA) have been applied on the data extracted from the samples of Arab newspapers. As analysis units, columns have been chosen over framed news from the newspapers. Mainly nationalist and Islamist columnists have covered Turkish-Iranian foreign policy initiatives regarding the Arab Spring. The nationalist discourse is expressed as ‘neither the Turkish Sultan nor the Iranian Mullah.’ The tone of Islamist columnists on the issue is much lower. While conditionally accepting the Turkish model of political Islam, Islamists have suggested that a Sunni alliance must stop Iran’s sectarian expansionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, Turkish TV series are watched by millions of people in more than a hundred and fifty countries. Turkish TV series have achieved great success in the last ten years. Today, Turkey ranks second in TV drama export after the USA. For the first time in history, Turkish-made media productions have reached millions of audiences from all over the world. The fact that Turkish TV series have gained a great reputation has raised the question of how the Turkish TV Series affect the image of Turkey brand. In order to answer this question, it was investigated how the Turkish series are described in the international press. Twenty-one mentions of Turkish TV series on the news were examined with the qualitative and quantitative content analysis. As a result of the study, it was concluded that %76.19 of the mentions emphasized that Turkish TV Series are watched with great admiration and interest; %47.6 of the mentions stressed that Turkish TV series have gained a large scale of export profits; %23.80 of the mentions highlighted that Turkish TV series are found to be qualified in terms of technique of shooting the series, acting, costume, and script; and %23.80 of the mentions marked that Turkish TV series have stimulated the social movements on women's rights in the Middle- East since they include secular values in a Muslim country. It was deduced that Turkish TV series that were presented in the international press affect the image of Turkey in a positive way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]