(Person) Percentage - Sabanci University Research Database

The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan
showed themselves off the universities. Islamist magazines dedicated to sects, later on
targeted the young generation.
In 1990’s Islamist newspaper, magazines and broadcasting channels appeared (Çakır,
2003). The appearance of Islamist media institutions is certainly the proof of Islamist wing’s
growing power in Turkey. This is interactivity. In fact 1980’s Özal governments played an
important role in Islamist wings ascension. Today Islamist media supports unconditionally
AKP government because of their ideological union. Samanyolu broadcasting channel,
Zaman and YeniŞafak newspapers are the pioneers. News and columns of these institutions
support the government unconditionally. It is not possible to avoid the support of these media
corporations to AKP. As a matter of fact their base is the same. However when another party
with the same political interest arises one can support it. On the other hand Cumhuriyet
newspaper is positioned with the official ideology and Ortadoğu newspaper is positioned with
a nationalist outlook. So these newspapers support CHP and MHP political parties. There are
newspapers to support Kurdish nationalism, some of them are closed.
Political partisan media gives support to a political party in order to protect media
owner’s interests. Media owner’s choice of party support changes whenever the interests of
the media owner change. But political and ideological partisan press exploits each other’s
components. In other words, there is not exclusively political partisan media or ideological
partisan media. Sabah newspaper is an example of political partisan media. “Media
institutions require the Second Republic” – such as Sabah newspaper- supports
unconditionally the government.
Method:
Sabah newspaper’s news and visual elements about party leaders of TBMM published
during March 15-29, 2009 are analyzed in the frame of this study. This period of time is
sufficient to reveal Sabah newspaper’s attitude toward other parties. Just as, beginning from
this date there are news especially about AKP every day. The analysis includes firstly a
quantitative inventory of news and visual elements. Accordingly news is classified by its
general characteristics. This classification is for finding out explicitly newspaper’s attitude
toward the parties and it helps to find out. Hereafter the analysis focuses on finding out which
themes of AKP leader’s speeches are highlighted by Sabah newspaper. Quoted passages from
the news are given as examples in the analysis. However every news article is not mentioned.
This process aims to discover in which level the newspaper supports AKP.
Findings:
A. Quantitative Data:
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