REFLECTIONS OF TURKEY'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY ON THE PRESS IN THE 1950s
Abstract
Democrat Party (DP) era is one of the contested periods in terms of politics, economy, society and foreign policy in Turkey. Particularly, the government-press relations and Turkey’s Middle East policy especially in the late 1950s consist serious challenges and crises. Initially, the DP government conducted a liberal press policy, but in the second half of the decade government-press relations strained. Similarly, Turkey’s Middle East policy can be regarded as a success story in the first half of the decade, while Turkey faced serious crises and challenges in the region in the second half. Despite several studies on government-press relations in the 1950sin the literature, there is a shortage of specific studies analyzing positions of the press towards DP’s Middle East policy. As a result, this paper aims to fill this gap and analyze the positions of the press regarding Turkey's Middle East policy throughout the decade in order to show divergence and convergence between the government and the press. Selected newspapers and journals published in this period will be used as primary sources. This paper concludes that the press in Turkey, regardless of their positions towards the government, supported DP's pro-Western and anti-communist Middle East policy despite some exceptions.
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Primary Language
English
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Research Article
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Publication Date
September 29, 2020
Submission Date
February 27, 2020
Acceptance Date
August 26, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2020 Volume: 22 Number: 3