The Minorities in Turkey
Sinem, Emine, Bahar and me made a group work on the homework of the democratic citizenship. It is about the point of view of media on minorities in Turkey.
Here is the Human Rights Joint platforms research which was made by
instructors of Communication Faculty about struggle of discrimination. The
title of the research is ‘Racism on Media ‘. A great deal of data have been
found out that mostly Kurdish, Armenian, Christian and Alevi people who belong
to a sect in Islam are the target of the discriminatory discourse. The research
focused on the bestseller newspapers contrast to the newspapers that are mostly
known as racist. According to research the discrimination is generally found on
the columns. In the research, it was determined that 52% of the articles
including ethnic-religious and cultural discrimination is found in the columns
and comments. It was found that the newspaper called Zaman has published 25
news and 54 columns and comments containing discrimination-racism, which means
that columns and comments include much more racism. During the research, for 13
months against all kinds’ emphasis on Turks, Kurdish people have been on news,
comments and the columns for 46 times. According to research, Kurdish people
have been associated with the terrorism, terrorist; PKK, events of violence in
115 titles and their demand for rights have been ignored.
In the study, according to the analysis of 1616 news and content of
articles that have been examined,
The rates of racist-discriminatory news published in the newspapers in
Turkey are as the following:
40 % in HÜRRİYET
29 % in ZAMAN
15% in POSTA
On the other hand, these newspapers contain also anti-racist-news. For
example;
Hürriyet has published 443 racist news but also has 36 anti-racist news.
Zaman has published 82 anti-racist news.
Posta has published 9 anti-racist news.
Here is the source of the information and you can find more information from the link :
Here is the link for the homepage of newspapers:
Hürriyet : http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/anasayfa/
Zaman : http://www.zaman.com.tr/
Posta : http://www.posta.com.tr/
How do you think that the discourses in the media reflects public opinion in Turkey. Are the columns and comments an indication of the public opinion?
ReplyDeleteHow do you think it is possible to break the stereotyping? try use the insights in the texts by Vinsonneau (read for November 19th) and Rutter (read for November 26th).
ReplyDeleteThe media forms the public opinion. Columns,comments are not an indication of the public opinion in contrast they are the opinions that media wants to empose on the public.
According to insights to break the stereotypes, we can use a strong argument or information that can make a sudden change in attitudes.
The information that goes against has to be repeated.A counter stereotype information can result in a division of the larger stereotype into subgroups.The subjects has to keen to challange and change their stereotypical views.A counter information given by a typical member can lead to more sudden changes in attitudes towards the group.We should focus on what is common for humanity. We should give pupils the possibility to debate moral issues.