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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]

Newspapers that we can express as the diaries of a nation; It contains information about the social and political texture, values, personalities and institutions of the period in which it was published. Newspapers are not only the news source of the period in which they were published, but also provide a rich data source that can be used by many disciplines from politics to history, from economy to education, from law to sociology. In the research, it is aimed to examine the reflections of the news about democracy between 1946-1960 in the local press of Malatya. The research has a qualitative method and a case study model was used. The newspapers Fırat, Malatya Postası and Yeni Malatya Postası, which were included in the Malatya local press between 1946 and 1960 in the National Library Periodicals Archive, were determined as the study group of the research. Among the determined newspapers, nearly 7000 newspaper pages were scanned and democracy news was taken as a basis and criterion sampling method was used. As a result of the scanning, a total of 891 news related to the subject of democracy were reached, classified in eight categories and coded. The document analysis method was used as a data collection tool in the research, and the content analysis technique was used in the analysis of the data. In line with the analysis, it was concluded that the understanding of democracy, culture, institutions, political texture and personalities of the period from the transition of Turkey to the multi-party political life in 1946 until 1960 were tried to be reflected through the example of the Malatya local press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Propaganda is a method used to persuade the public on any subject. Yale Approach developed by Carl Hovland stands out with the features of message, recipient, and source of the message. For the message to be effective, it must give fear, repeat, express the opposite opinion, and include feelings and facts at the same time. Based on this information, "Can one of the propaganda methods used by the press in the Early Republican period be defined as 'Yale Approach'?" research question arises. By finding the answer to this question, the propaganda techniques used in the Early Republican period press can be understood. For this purpose, the propaganda language used by the Cumhuriyet newspaper, about the 1930 Ağrıdagı Rebellion was analyzed by content analysis method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological structures that progress day by day have brought both the development of new models and the making of different articulations to the existing ones. At this point, it is important to examine the approaches to the Metaverse phenomenon, which can be considered as new. The news that holds a mirror to the society also gives clues about the period in which it is lived and reflects the views of individuals. At this point, the study aimed to examine the Metaverse phenomenon through content analysis method through national and international news platforms. The study is important in terms of examining the course of the metaverse phenomenon and analyzing regional differences. The results show that Metaverse has been discussed as a new phenomenon in the international press, mainly under the title of technology. In the national press, it has been shown that this issue is considered as an investment opportunity for individuals, especially in the economic framework. This difference between the regions draws the framework of the approaches of the people of the region to which the news belongs and brings the technological developments under different categories. [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]

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the president of the USA, sent a message to İsmet İnönü, the prime minister of Turkish Republic, on problems in Cyprus. Known as "The Johnson Letter", this message became a turning point in the relationship between Turkey and the USA since Turkey lost its confidence in the USA, which is its closest ally. The message, which was originally sent in 1964, was published on newspapers in 1966. This study aims to determine how this letter and the events that followed it were presented in the news and columns of different newspapers. For the purposes of the study, the news articles published on Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet and Tercüman newspapers were analyzed in three different periods by using qualitative content analysis. According to the results, the news were presented in a similar way in the first two periods, which reflected mainly two concepts: disappointment and reproach. The third period was characterized with considerable differences in presentations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the digital journalism practices in Turkey over Ensonhaber, Hürriyet, and Medyascope and tries to determine the essential qualities of digital news media. The purpose of this study to compare news media which is both born digital-born and has the printed newspaper version by examining the structure of the news sites in terms of digital journalism practices in Turkey. In this context, Ensonhaber and Medyascope which are the digital-born with the website of Hürriyet which has the printed version as well have been examined the data on ranking/access/traffic data of news sites through Alexa.com. In addition, social media accounts and news categories have been analyzed by using the content analysis method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence and development of the Romanian press are among the unknown facts about the non-Turkish press in the Ottoman Empire. In this geography, it owes the birth of the Romanian press to journalists, teachers and clergymen living and working in Eflak and Boğdan regions, which are called "memleketeyn" on the one hand, and on the other hand to the Romanian intellectuals in the provinces of Manastır and Thessaloniki, which are close to the Ottoman administration. Influenced by nationalist movements in the Balkans, which accelerated the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, Romanian influenced the development of the press directly. This press, which originally pursued a cultural purpose, acted in the interests of the Romanian nation due to the independence wars concentrated in the region. While the press movements of the "Memleketeyn" Romanians aimed to create a strong public opinion that would gain political independence from the Ottoman Empire, the press movements of the Romanians living in the provinces of Manastır and Thessaloniki played an important role in the preservation and survival of the independent ethnic identity within the current political structure. In this study, the phenomenon of Romanian journalism that emerged and developed in the Ottoman lands between 1829-1912 was discussed with the help of the results obtained from the content analysis of the most important newspapers and magazines. With the help of the source search methods used in the study, the literature about the Romanian press in the Ottoman Empire was examined in 5 languages, Romanian, 'Arumence, Macedonian, English and Turkish. Results obtained in the study; In the history of the non-Turkish press in the Ottoman Empire, there are no scientific studies other than a single source prepared in Turkish on the Romanian press, which explains the "collapse-survival" processes of the Ottoman Empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses announcements, news and opinion columns printed in the newspapers of the non-Muslim communities on 1927, 1932, 1940 and 1945 censuses conducted in the Single Party period during the nation-state building process in Turkey. Within the scope of the research, newspapers published in the three months before, during and after the censuses were examined. In the newspapers examined, more than five hundred announcements, news and columns were analysed using the qualitative content analysis method. When we evaluate all the census years together, we see that the newspapers have fulfilled their functions as a significant element of the census propaganda. The main perspective of the newspapers amalgamates minority populations in the common denominator of the citizens of Turkey and represents them as an invisible multiplier of Turkey's total population where their ethnic differences become insignificant as equal citizens. [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]

The proclamation of the Republic of Turkey took place in many newspapers in the world, and also in Soviet press. This study aims to examine how the proclamation of the republic which means officially declared the Republic of Turkey, was reflected in the Soviet-Russian writing press. This review is done through the newspapers Pravda and Izvestiya which were the most important publications of the period. These newspapers were chosen because they represented the official ideology in the Soviet era, has included foreign news reports and because of that they were a source for other media. In the scope of the study, 3-month periods covering 1 October-31 December of the 1923 were taken as an example. The news about "Turkey" in these newspapers was investigated. Content analysis was used as research method. At the end of the work, total of 22 news of this two newspapers were reached; these reports were evaluated on the basis of features such as title, subject, description, news direction and source under the explanatory and interview categories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The official visit to Turkey of the Soviet Premier Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin was important in terms of reviving relations between the two countries during the Cold War period. The visit of the Premier Kosygin and of the accompanying Soviet delegation, held in 20-27 December 1966, found extensive coverage in the Turkish press. The focal point of the talks was the relations between the two countries and the problems related to the international agenda. In particular, Czechoslovakia's sale of weapons, a Soviet ally, to the Greek Cypriot leader Makarios, and the solution of the Cyprus problem were some of the main topics of the negotiations. Despite certain disagreements on international issues, the visit of the Soviet Premier, in the Cold War conjuncture, played a role in the revitalization of bilateral relations. The Turkish Press followed with great interest the Premier Kosygin's visit to Turkey. Utilising the coverage of mainstream newspapers like Cumhuriyet, Ulus, Tercüman, Akşam, Dünya, Yeni Tanin and Vatan, the paper used the content analysis method to evaluate the reflections of the visit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]