Abstract EN:

During the last two decades of the 20th century, internal and external dynamics supported the rise to power of new ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious actors in Turkish public and politic space. Their greater visibility became increasingly threatening for the official ideology of the secular and national Republic, as well as for the privileged positions of "the establishement". Faced with this transformation, "the establishement", wich suports Turkey's integration into European and world institutions, tried to derail the rise of the new actors (who were rooted in political Islam and Kurdish nationalism), while respecting the institutional framework of Turkey's democracy. In order to marginalize all attempts to cultivate minority identities, " the establishement " manipulated the media - and by extension the general public. The purpose of this thesis is to show how the dominant official speeches and messages were produced and woven into the daily pratice of Turkish reporters and editors in the years 1980-1990. The thesis is based and analysis of newspapers from the period, discussions with journalists and the economic situation of the Turkish press. The analytical framework is intended to highlight the close and unequal interaction between authorities, media organizations and journalists. This thesis suggests that journalistic language, wich is unfavorable to Kurdish nationalist actors and political Islam, is related not only to various pressures exerted on journalists by military, political and economic forces, but is also related to journalistic habits, particularly of the elites who come almost exclusively from privileged social categories.