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İÇİNDEKİLER
CİHANNÜMA DIŞ İLİŞKİLER KOORDİNATÖRLÜĞÜ
ARAŞTIRMA BÜLTENİ
SAYI 3 - MART 2015
ABSTRACTS
MEDIATIC ORIENTALISM: CULTURAL
EXPLOITATION
Yusuf KAPLAN
We are living in an age of media. We can define
the media age as the “age of pornography”,
as well. The term “pornography” implies the
closing of perception channels. What closes
our perception are the media themselves
and the language they use and the types of
relationships they build with the viewers:
as the media which once emerged as
communication tools turned out to become
“the sites of struggle”, in Stuart Hall’s accurate
conceptualization, the media age alienated
media from being communication tools. It
transformed them into tools of “pornography”
enticing masses by aesthetical means. The
media, in Habermas’ saying, have turned into
“hegemonic tools” whereby global power elites
and economical-political-cultural interest
groups both legitimize and corroborate their
powers and interests through complicated
and vicarious means and methods. And at
the current state, they have become means
of patrol for new-exploitation far worse than
academic orientalism. Therefore the lack of
communication in the age of media is the
biggest problem.
A DRAMA of CENTURY IN BOSNIA
Hüseyin YORULMAZ
The bloody war which took place through the
end of 20th century was the most grievous
revenge for the Bosnians. They couldn’t believe
that they were having these calamities in the
very middle of an era in which such concepts as
democracy human rights and humanism were
glorified. Firs,t they asked themselves how
that could happen in that age. Furthermore,
all these happened at the very center of
Balkans known as the backyard of Europe.
And it happened just in front of the world.
This identity, which the West couldn’t stand
and tried to demolish not only by remaining
indifferent, but also by allying with Serbians
and Croatians, once again found its owner in
a different tone under its green broadcloth
as the things got worse for the attackers. The
Bosnians realized that these were happening
to them just because of this identity of theirs.
Chetniks and Ustashas were attacking them
saying that “they were Muslims” regardless
of their language and kinship. Because they
were rightfully associating being Bosnian with
being Turkish and Muslim.
THE UNSUSTANTAINABLE SOCIO-POLITICS
OF QOUPD’ETAT IN EGYPT
Can ACUN
Among the most forthcoming reasons behind
the public rebellion against Mubarak and 25th
Jan. 2011 Revolution are political factors along
with socio-economical problems and income
inequalities. More than a million demonstrators
gathering at the Tahrir square started the riot
shouting slogans like “bread, freedom, social
justice, human pride”. However, it didn’t take
long for these expectations to turn into an
even larger hatred. Unattainable expectations
were used as a matter of opposition against
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