Essays about: "AKP"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 essays containing the word AKP.
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6. A Case Study of the “Dağlıca Event” From Chaos to Election Victory : Media and Politics of Fear in the Political Communication of Terrorism in Turkey
University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapAbstract : This thesis aims to examine the complex relationship between the realm of politics and media during a ‘terrorist event’ in Turkey by focusing on the politics of fear and the power relations between two. The research uses Critical Discourse Analysis as a primary method to analyse political communication and media coverage of a ‘terrorist attack’ in Turkey. READ MORE
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7. "They Want to Control Everything" - Discourse and Lifestyle in Contemporary Turkey
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : Based upon anthropological fieldwork and contemporary literature as well as an analysis of media reports and statements by government officials such as current president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, this thesis explores the interrelations between political discourses, lifestyle, and identity construction in contemporary Turkey. In the thesis, it is depicted how certain lifestyle choices are legally limited or (drawing on moral, religious, and nationalist discourses) labeled as 'bad' or 'wrong' by the current AKP government and certain parts of society. READ MORE
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8. Turkey’s ‘New Role’ Creation under AKP Leadership : Relationship between decision-maker’s perceptions and state’s international performance
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för MellanösternstudierAbstract : This thesis, in its general framework, explores the recent transformation of Turkey’s role in international sphere under the ruling AKP government. Upon the rise of rise of AKP to power in 2002, the tradition of Turkey’s foreign policy orientations underwent significant transformations and challenges which signified the country’s ambition to adopt a ‘new role’ in the regional and international contexts. READ MORE
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9. The re-entry of the Islamic headscarf in Turkish Parliament, A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Reactions
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis investigated the reactions to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) recent lift of the ban against the Islamic headscarf in the Turkish Parliament. The reactions by the oppositional party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), were analysed through Norman Fairclough’s understanding of critical discourse analysis, which aims to illuminate unequal power relations created or recreated by the production of discursive practises, which is believed to ultimately affect social practises. READ MORE
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10. "It's not really about alcohol, you know"
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : This paper is about the role that alcohol consumption plays in the (re)definition of Turkishness at a time where the secular foundations of the country are being challenged by the religious-conservative Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP). We see how alcohol consumption shed its marginal position in the middle of the 19th century, being elevated to the status of drink of the elites, how this in turn shaped the lifestyles of those growing up in the urban centers throughout the next century and a half, the native secularists, and how it is perhaps again on the way to a marginal position in the Turkish society. READ MORE
