Media in New Turkey

The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State

Bibliographic Data

ID23399223
AuthorsBilge Yesil (corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages216
Publication date2016-06-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMedia in New Turkey (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/illinois/9780252040177.001.0001
OpenAlexW2409394804
Open LibraryOL28591357M
ISBN9780252040177
LanguageEN
Citations received103

Investment and expansion have made Turkish media a transnational powerhouse in the Middle East and Central Asia. Yet tensions continue to grow between media outlets and the Islamist AKP party that has governed the country for over a decade. This book unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. The book focuses on a convergence of global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 military coup to globalization's inroads and the recent resurgence of political Islam. The book's analysis foregrounds how these and other forces become intertwined, and it uses Turkey's media to unpack the ever-more-complex relationships. The book confronts essential questions regarding the role of the state and military in building the structures that shaped Turkey's media system; media adaptations to ever-shifting contours of political and economic power; how the far-flung economic interests of media conglomerates leave them vulnerable to state pressure; and the ways Turkey's politicized judiciary criminalizes certain speech. Drawing on local knowledge and a wealth of Turkish sources, the book provides an engrossing look at the fault lines carved by authoritarianism, tradition, neoliberal reform, and globalization within Turkey's increasingly far-reaching media.

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · Islam · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Turkish · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society · Mass media · Middle east

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