The transformation of Turkey’s state TV broadcaster TRT from a secularist mainstream media to an Islamist-nationalist government propaganda tool paralleled Turkey’s democratic backsliding. Using critical discourse analysis tools, this study contends that the AKP administration simulates its contemporary political narrative in the past through the establishment of a new historic-political TV series, on state television. As control over the media increased following the 15 July 2016 coup attempt, mainstreaming the government’s popular discourse through the topoi of ‘survival’ and ‘spoiling the plot’ has become a common theme in that narrative.
Read here the full analysis at the Third World Quarterly by Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, Senior Research Fellow; Head of the Turkey Programme and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University and Onur T. Karabıçak, PhD student at Virginia Tech in the ASPECT programme.
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