EL ŞEBAB’IN PROPAGANDA ARACI OLARAK COVID-19

Year 2020, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 435 - 458, 23.11.2020

Özlem Özdemir

https://doi.org/10.28956/gbd.830018

Abstract

Bu çalışma, El Şebab’ın, küresel bir salgın hâline gelen ve tüm dünyayı etkisi altına alan COVID-19’u propaganda aracı olarak nasıl kullandığını ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Somali’de ilk COVID-19 vakasının 16 Mart 2020 tarihinde görülmesinin ardından salgının ülke genelinde giderek yayılması, merkezi hükümetin diğer ülkelerde olduğu gibi birtakım tedbirler almasına neden olmuştur. Ancak, başarısız devlet olarak tanımlanan Somali’nin salgın ile mücadelesi oldukça zordur. Bunun en büyük sebebi El Şebab’ın hükümeti salgına karşı yetersiz ve ilgisiz göstermeye çalışması ve kendince önlemler almaya başlamasıdır. Merkezi hükümetin, virüsle mücadelede eyaletlerle iş birliğinin ve koordinasyonun yetersiz olması ve üst düzey devlet görevlilerinin de virüse yakalanması El Şebab’ın propagandasını güçlendiren bir durum olarak ortaya çıkmaktadır.
Çalışmada, nitel araştırma yöntemi kullanılarak Birleşmiş Milletler Güvenlik Konseyi, Dünya Sağlık Örgütü (WHO), Birleşmiş Milletler Mülteciler Yüksek Komiserliği (UNHCR) ve Doğu Afrika Araştırma ve Stratejik Çalışmalar Merkezi’nin raporları ve medyaya yansıyanların betimlenmesine çalışılmıştır. Edinilen bulgular neticesinde, sömürgeleştirilen Somali halkını temsil ettiği ideolojisinden hareket eden örgütün, cihat ilanını meşrulaştırmak için işgalci Hristiyan ülkelerin virüsü yaydığı propagandasını yaptığı sonucuna varılmıştır.

Keywords

Somali, Sömürge, El Şebab, COVID-19, El Kaide, Propaganda

COVID-19 AS A PROPAGANDA TOOL OF AL SHABAAB

Abstract

This study aims to reveal how Al Shabaab uses COVID-19 which has become a global epidemic and affected the whole World as a propaganda tool. After the first COVID-19 case was seen in Somalia on March 16, 2020, the spread of the epidemic throughout the country caused the central government to take some measures as in other countries. However, defined as a failed state it is very difficult for Somalia to combat the epidemic. The biggest reason for this is that El Shabaab tried to show the government inadequate and indifferent to the epidemic and started to take measures in its own way. The inadequate cooperation and coordination of the central government with the states in combating the virus and senior government officials to contract the virus appear as a situation that strengthens the propaganda of Al Shabaab. In the study, using the qualitative research method, the reports of the United Nations Security Council, World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The East Africa Research and Strategic Studies Center and the media reflections were tried to be described. As a result of the findings, it was concluded that the organization, acting on the ideology that it represents the colonized Somali people, and in order to legitimize the declaration of jihad made the propaganda that the occupying Christian states spread the virüs.

Keywords

Somali, Colony, El Shabab, COVID-19, Al-Qaeda, Propaganda

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