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News agencies that produce news in line with the interests of the country have started to actively use Twitter, which is one of the social media platforms, in order to produce news in the country's own language and to exist in that country. With Twitter, which provides an instant and rapid exchange of information, the agenda was determined and many contents were circulated. During the war between Russia and Ukraine, the need for information on the situation increased and Russia's news agency Sputnik shared information regularly on its Turkey Twitter account, and these shares reached a wide audience.
In this study, the posts made by the Sputnik Turkey Twitter account during the period when the tensions were highest between February 24 and March 24, the day the Russia-Ukraine War first started, were examined, it was investigated which points @sputnik_TR account most emphasized, how much interaction the posts received, and In the study, content analysis was preferred as a data analysis technique.
It has been observed that 540 posts were made by the @sputnik_TR account in the specified period, and parallel terms related to the war were frequently mentioned in these posts. It has been determined that the most used words are the word "negotiation", but the sharing of this word takes place in the form of calls by politicians from other countries for Russia and Ukraine. This word was followed by the word "operation", which was preferred to be used instead of war, and the word "soldier/army" was the third most used word.