@article{article_527414, title={Terrorism and Newspapers: Representation of ISIL and PKK Terror Attacks in Turkish Newspapers}, journal={Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi}, pages={323–338}, year={2019}, DOI={10.31123/akil.527414}, author={Efe, İbrahim}, keywords={Argumentation, Conceptual metaphors, Journalism, Turkish newspapers, Terrorism, Terrorist attacks}, abstract={<p>This study deals with the news coverage of some of the recent terror attacks in Turkey. It uses a part of the data set compiled for a project on impacts of journalism on countering violent extremism in Turkey (henceforth the CVE Project). The data is analysed using an eclectic version of critical discourse analysis. The analysis starts with an explanation of the data and the context of the terrorist attacks in question. Then, the argumentation strategies used by newspapers are examined through pragma-dialectical argumentation approach. Metaphors are also analysed through the lenses of conceptual metaphor thesis. The findings show that arguments against terrorist attacks taking place in Turkey are highly marked by Turkey’s experience with <br />the PKK terror and political stances. Metaphors used in news articles also reveal ideological and political treatment of the issue at stake. All in all, the study points out that there is a close relationship between the ways terror attacks are handled in Turkish newspapers and their ideological political positions. The implications of this finding for the relationship between media and terrorism is discussed at the end of the study.  <br /> </p>}, number={31}, publisher={Akdeniz University}