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By Bilge Yesil

In Media in New Turkey, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating brand new Turkish media. Yesil makes a speciality of a convergence of worldwide and household forces that diversity from the 1980 army coup to globalization's inroads and the new resurgence of political Islam. Her research foregrounds how those and different forces turn into intertwined, and she or he makes use of Turkey's media to unpack the ever-more-complex relationships.

 

Yesil confronts crucial questions relating to: the function of the country and army in construction the buildings that formed Turkey's media method; media variations to ever-shifting contours of political and financial energy; how the far-flung monetary pursuits of media conglomerates go away them at risk of nation strain; and the methods Turkey's politicized judiciary criminalizes yes speech.

 

Drawing on neighborhood wisdom and a wealth of Turkish resources, Yesil offers an engrossing examine the fault strains carved by way of authoritarianism, culture, neoliberal reform, and globalization inside of Turkey's more and more far-reaching media.

 

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