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of a homemade form of extremism exercised by foreigners, and mindyou, by 'foreigners' born in the FRG. Kemalism also has relevance fordomestic politics, since academic circles as well as the media work underthe assumption that modern Turkey suffers from a pervasive form ofidentity crisis 1 , whose symptoms may be found not least in the Turks livingin the FRG. Aside from travel reporting, the image of Turkey in Germanjournalism is characterized through its problem-oriented nature. Byjournalism, I mean not only the media, but also academic circles, vvhichsupply. the former with "background information" and expertise. For thisreason the Turkey analyses of little knovvn representatives of "ivory tovverdisciplines" have decisively influenced the development of the imageof Turkey in the FRG, either directly or through their graduates who haveassumed positions in journalism.The political situation in Turkey found increasing interest in Germanydirectly after the end of the Cold War. Whereas ideological determinedconfrontations, whose roots lay not infrequently in the subversiveactivities of the Eastern Block 2 , were the dominant theme in the seventies,the human rights discussion became the explosive issue of the eighties. Inthe era ushered in by the reunification of Germany, the so-called KurdishQuestion, which had been relegated to the sidelines in the seventies andeighties, shifted to the center of the journalistic stage. One may say thattovvards the end of the eighties, human rights issues ceased being vievvedin the terms of Enlightenment principles and began to be seen in an ethniccategory, regadless of ideological vievvpoint, vvhich then became thebasis for the calling into question of the Turkish republie.The choice of the theme of this lecture "The Perception of Kemalismin German Journalism since the End of the Corld War" vvas not the resultof academic boredom. The already mentioned "problem-oriented nature"of German Turkey journalism, vvhich vvill be treated later, differs fromsimilar tendencies in other Western nations. German Turkey journalismdiffers from that of other Western nations not merely because of its historicallydetermined special status. An alarming difference consists of thefact that in its treatment of Turkey German journalism operates vvithmethods that transcend ideology, and shovvs great uniformity in its opinions.The results of such coverage and analyses are disastrous for tvvo reasons:For one thing, the German public is presented vvith a distorted pic-1. Udo Steinbach: Europas Brücke zur islamischen Welt. Die Türkei auf identitâtssuche,Bliitter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 10/1996, p. 1222 ff.2. Walter Althammer: Die deutsche Türkei-Hilfe. Ihre notwendigen politisehen Rahmenbedingungen,Südosteuropa-Mitteilungen, 3/1981, p. 48 ff. There are scatteredreferences in serious journalism to the fact that the PKK vvas founded in 1978 underthe patronage of the İCGB. "It vvas an instrument for the destabilization of the NATOpartner Turkey". (Werner Gumpel: Die Türkei, der Nahe Osten und das Wasser.Verschiebung des Kraftegleichgewichts, Internationale Politik, 1/1988, p. 19.818