{"id":54723,"date":"2026-02-11T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/?post_type=activity&#038;p=54723"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:54:33","slug":"i-diamorfosi-ton-istorikopolitikon-seiron-tou-trt-kratiki-tileorasi-kai-politiki-epikoinonia-stin-tourkia","status":"publish","type":"activity","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/activity\/the-making-of-the-trt-historical-political-series-state-television-and-political-communication-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The making of the TRT historical-political series: state television and political communication in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>The transformation of Turkey\u2019s state TV broadcaster TRT from a secularist mainstream media to an Islamist-nationalist government propaganda tool paralleled Turkey\u2019s 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\u2019s popular discourse through the topoi of \u2018survival\u2019 and \u2018spoiling the plot\u2019 has become a common theme in that narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/01436597.2026.2616289#abstract\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> the full analysis at the\u00a0<span class=\"title\"><em>Third World Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>by <strong>Ioannis N. Grigoriadis<\/strong>, Senior Research Fellow; Head of the Turkey Programme and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University and <strong>Onur T. Karab\u0131\u00e7ak<\/strong>, PhD student at Virginia Tech in the ASPECT programme.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":54728,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"program":[24],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity\/54723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/activity"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=54723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}