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From Ayran to Dragon Fruit Smoothie: Populism, Polarization, and Social Engineering in Turkey
(USC Annenberg Press, 2020)
Food embedded with symbolic meaning has power in politics. Food as political communication is extensively studied as a nation branding and public diplomacy tool. However, academic studies seem to overlook the role that ...
Deepening Polarization in Turkish Society: The Impact of Political Actors on Public Opinion
(Int Business Information Management ASSOC-IBIMA, 2017)
Recent research shows that polarization trends are on the rise in Turkey (Konda 2010; BILGESAM 2014: Erdogan 2016: Kadir Has University Turkey Research Center 2017). There are different patterns of polarization in Turkish ...
Framing the Russian aircraft crisis: News discourse in Turkey’s polarized media environment
(Forsnet, 2018)
This article analyzes the way in which the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish F-16 jet on 24 November 2015 was framed by pro-government (Türkiye, Yeni Akit, Yeni Şafak) and anti-government (Cumhuriyet) newspapers. ...
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2022)
This study explores how media users define false information in the daily flow of their lives against a backdrop of sociopolitical contexts. We focus on the vernacular definitions of false information through the concept ...