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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 ...
Publishing leaked information as news: Sabotage or journalistic success?
(2013)
This article aims to analyse the universal news criteria regarding the transformation of information into news. In February 2013 the transcript of a meeting between 3 pro-Kurdish deputies and the jailed leader of the PKK ...
Social business in online financing: Crowdfunding narratives of independent documentary producers in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2015)
Crowdfunding is a relatively novel concept in Turkish public discourse. Yet activist media producers in Turkey actively use online opportunities to solicit production post-production and distribution financing. This article ...
Making transnational publics: Circuits of censorship and technologies of publicity in Kurdish media circulation
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Kurdish media producers who interweave social and political agendas with their filmmaking are often marginalized within Turkish media worlds. Impeded by national censorship these filmmakers move between national and ...
Do Foreigners Count? Internationalization of Presidential Campaigns
(Sage Publications Inc, 2017)
The U.S. presidential elections always attract the attention of foreign audienceswho despite not being able to vote choose to follow the campaigns closely. For a post that is colloquially dubbed as the Leader of the Free ...
Invented Myths in Contemporary Turkish Political Advertising
(Springer, 2016)
This article focuses on the November 2015 elections in Turkey and analyzes the discourses embedded in the political campaign videos produced and circulated by the Justice and Development Party (ruling party since 2002) ...
Framing the Russian Aircraft Crisis: News Discourse in Turkey's Polarized Media Environment
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 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 (Turkiye Yeni Akit Yeni Safak) and anti-government (Cumhuriyet) newspapers. ...
Encountering difference and radical democratic trajectory: An analysis of Gezi Park as public space
(Routledge, 2015)
Summer 2013 was a historic period in regards to political activism in Turkey. Commonly referred to as ‘the Gezi Resistance’ the grass-roots mobilisation caught the rather self-assured AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) ...
Who sets the agenda in Turkey? Recent political and social trends in Turkish public opinion
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2015)
In terms of scholarly research and understanding the national social and political systems and policies the need exists for an empirical assessment of recent trends in public opinion in Turkey. Accordingly the current study ...
Exploring the City: Perceiving Istanbul through its Cultural Productions
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
This essay explores the role of Istanbul's 'cultural productions' as components of the city's structure and texture. Istanbul is a city of tensions generated by its countless conflicting and divergent flows which are ...