THE IMAGE OF GERMANY IN TÜRKİYE AN ANALYSIS OF THE

Today, as relations have been in a state of First, a detailed analysis of 528 articles that were crisis since the Gezi protests in 2013, the question published in 11 Turkish newspapers from 2005 arises as to whether the image of Germany in the to 2021 was conducted to obtain a quantitative press is uniform in all newspapers and how and why perspective on the topics reported and the senti- it has c. [...] The project aims to understand and document the emergence of the image of Germany in the Turkish Second, a total of 35 interviews were conducted media and to decipher particular periods in bilateral to deepen the results of the quantitative analysis relations as identified within Turkish newspapers. [...] Hürriyet had the largest 11 THE IMAGE OF GERMANY IN TÜRKİYE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE TURKISH MEDIA OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS As far as the stylistic features of the reporting are concerned, a striking imbalance can be observed between the newspapers. [...] The loyalty of most media to the 23 THE IMAGE OF GERMANY IN TÜRKİYE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE TURKISH MEDIA OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS dominant political and social role of the AKP encourages negative reporting. [...] 29 THE IMAGE OF GERMANY IN TÜRKİYE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE TURKISH MEDIA OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS Figure 9: Sözcü, June 3, 2016 Cumhuriyet (= republic) is the oldest daily news- paper in Türkiye; it was founded in 1924, shortly after the foundation of the Turkish Republic.