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The uses of digital media in overthrow the coup :the case of 15 July 2016 coup in Turkey
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Alankuş, Sevda; Alankuş, Sevda
The internet became the biggest network worldwide and Facebook became the largest virtual community with 2 billion users around the world in the last six years. The Middle East has witnessed several revolutions in many countries such as Tunisia Egypt Libya Yemen and Syria and a military intervention took place in Egypt in July 2013. All these developments are deeply related with the speedy revolution on the internet especially the social media. People in those cases used the social media to participate in and organize crowds in the streets and squares to boost their morale and mobilize the resentment. in this study i tried to analyze how Turkish people benefited from the use of social media with a specific reference to the use of social media in Turkey in the 15 July 2016 coup attempt. The thesis argues that digital media more specifically the social media and the Facetime application played a crucial role in mobilizing organizing and motivating the masses revolt against the military forces which aimed at overthrowing the elected government.