TURKEY AND ITS RECEPTION OF THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR

(SEPTEMBER 25 - OCTOBER 7, 2014). "Space and memory are maps on which these changes leave their traces". "the 'news' link up with and support the 'continuity of survival' instinct of the Turkish Republic". The above two sentences constitute the main arguments upon which the present research is based upon. More specifically, this book explores the use of newspapers by the Turkish state apparatus, and its "guardians", as a means to propagate its (their) dominant ideology. Something that is accomplished via intangible tools such as the concealed meanings found behind newspaper headlines, front pages and news presentation. In this way, the present study represents, above all, a "mental exercise" on finding, firstly, the best-suited academic concepts and methods within the discourse analysis area -broadly speaking- in order to validate how information (and ideology alike) is produced through newspaper headlines and their first pages and secondly, on deciphering the hidden meanings therein.