TÜRK MİLLİYETÇİLİĞİNİN HABER SÖYLEMLERİNDE GÜNDELİK İNŞASI: SEVAG BALIKÇI CİNAYETİ

Year 2022, Volume: 9 Issue: 2 - Gündelik Milliyetçilik, 393 - 420, 31.12.2022

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https://doi.org/10.17572/mj2022.2.393-420

Abstract

Bu çalışma Türk milliyetçiliğinin söylem alanında nasıl inşa edildiğini ve yeniden üretildiğini ‘Ermeni sorunu’ ile yeniden karşılaşması üzerinden incelemektedir. 24 Nisan 2011 tarihinde gerçekleşen Sevag Balıkçı cinayeti vakasına odaklanılarak bu yüzleşmenin ulusal gazetelerde günlük olarak hangi söylemsel stratejiler aracılığıyla sunulduğu gösterilmektedir. Araştırmada seçilen üç ulusal gazetenin bu olayı nasıl haberleştirdiği eleştirel söylem analizi yöntemi kullanılarak tespit edilmiştir. Araştırma bulgularına göre vakanın medya temsillerinde maktulün etnik kökeni, şehitlik durumu ve ulus için fedakârlık yapması öne çıkan temalar olarak belirlenmiştir. Böylece millet olma halinin sürekli imlenmesi ve hatırlatılması ile milliyetçi söylemlerin haber söylemlerine gündelik olarak nasıl eklemlenebildiği tartışılmaktadır. Bu bağlamda ulusal gazetelerin Balıkçı cinayetini tarihsel ve politik arka planından soyutlayarak ve ‘Ermeni sorunu’ ile bağlantısını kopararak, Türk milliyetçiliğinin söylemsel, temsili ve dışlayıcı yönlerini açığa çıkarır şekilde konumlandırdığı ortaya çıkarılmıştır.

Keywords

Türk milliyetçiliği, Ermeni sorunu, Ulusal gazeteler, Haber söylemi, Medya temsilleri

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EVERYDAY CONSTRUCTION OF TURKISH NATIONALISM IN NEWS DISCOURSES: THE MURDER OF SEVAG BALIKÇI

Abstract

This study examines how Turkish nationalism is constructed and reproduced within the discursive sphere through its re-encounter with ‘the Armenian issue’. Focusing on the murder of Sevag Balıkçı on April 24, 2011, it aims to examine the discursive strategies through which this confrontation is presented in national newspapers every day. The critical discourse analysis method was used to determine how the three national newspapers selected in the study covered this incident. According to the findings of the research, the ethnic origin of the victim, his martyrdom status, and his sacrifice for the nation were determined as the prominent themes in the media representations of the case. Therefore, this study discusses how nationalist discourses could be included in news discourses daily by constantly implying and reminding of nationhood. In this regard, it has been revealed that national newspapers positioned the Balıkçı murder in a way that brings out the discursive, representational, and exclusionary aspects of Turkish nationalism by isolating the murder of Balıkçı from its historical and political background and breaking its connection with ‘the Armenian question’.

Keywords

Turkish nationalism, Armenian issue, National newspapers, News discourse, Media representations

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