Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear

IF 0.8 2区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-14 DOI:10.1080/14683857.2022.2088647

Murat Akser, Banu Baybars

引用次数: 3

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments’ fear of media and Turkish media’s fear of government authority with respect to the development of press freedom over the long run and closely analyzes the historical pressures imposed on journalists through legal and informal means. We focus particularly on the economic and political pressure on the media in Turkey and offer three arguments regarding the fear in Turkish media: (1) Media fear is historical rather than a rupture that happened during the Justice and Development Party era; (2) out of fear of losing power, the governments use structural, legislative and extra-legal factors to the advantage of the ruling party to support a friendly media-ecology; and (3) the repressed media attempt to come out of this ecology of fear by utilizing new tactics of reporting, such as alternative media and citizen journalism.

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土耳其被压制的媒体和不自由的政治:持续的恐惧

摘要本文考察了土耳其历届政府对媒体的恐惧和土耳其媒体对政府权威的恐惧在新闻自由长期发展中所起作用的历史根源，并仔细分析了通过法律和非正式手段施加给记者的历史压力。我们特别关注土耳其媒体面临的经济和政治压力，并就土耳其媒体的恐惧提出了三个论点：（1）媒体恐惧是历史性的，而不是正义与发展党时代发生的破裂；（2）出于对失去权力的恐惧，政府利用结构、立法和法外因素来支持友好的媒体生态，这对执政党有利；以及（3）被压抑的媒体试图通过利用新的报道策略，如另类媒体和公民新闻，走出这种恐惧的生态。

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Southeast European and Black Sea Studies AREA STUDIES-

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

19.00%

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期刊介绍： The aim of the journal is to establish a line of communication with these regions of Europe. Previously isolated from the European mainstream, the Balkan and Black Sea regions are in need of serious comparative study as are the individual countries, no longer "at the edge" of Europe. The principal disciplines covered by the journal are politics, political economy, international relations and modern history; other disciplinary approaches are accepted as appropriate. The journal will take both an academic and also a more practical policy-oriented approach and hopes to compensate for the serious information deficit on the countries under consideration.