Toruk, Ibrahim; Güran, M. Salih

During the course of a political communication process, political actors employ various communication techniques which are developed towards various goals. Particularly election times see a concentration and polarization in political communication actions on various media, but the press maintains still a most strategic role. The aim of this study is to explore the potential of the Turkish press for the projection of the relations between the Ak Party and the Hizmet Cemaati -The Community of Service as it was covered by the headlines on political events during the elections period. Five newspapers with differing political stances were chosen and their news coverage of the last thirty days before the elections was studied in relation to their genre and type, attributes, and definition of meaning. Then, the news coverage was qualitatively content analyzed in comparison to each other. The obtained data was was put to qualitative content analysis used for an analysis of the attitude that the Turkish press presented on the relationship of Ak party-The Community after the December 17 operations in light of the political communication. The analysis exposed clearly that each newspaper was occupied to cover the news according to her engaged ideology and political stance.

Toruk, Ibrahim; Güran, Salih; Sine, Rengim

In present-day societies, the notion of leisure time can be considered in quite different meanings. An emerging prominent meaning of interest would deal with leisure time as a space of consumption. Numerous studies have explored the notion in relation to different factors. This study deals with the topic of leisure time in relation to social gender patterns of consumption by means of a discourse analysis conducted on two magazines for men and women respectively. The results showed that in both magazines, the identities of women were constructed through the codes of a male-dominated discourse and were idealized by images that comply with the viewpoint of men.