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The Afterlife of Critique: The Communicability of Criticism and the Publicity of Polemic Concerning Public Debate in the Turkish Press
(Usc Annenberg Press, 2017) Gürsoy, A. Özgür; Karanfil, Y Gökçen
The philosophical activity of critique is intimately connected with the mundane activity of public criticism that takes place in newspapers. Drawing on the Kantian tradition of critical philosophy, we argue that four axes, namely, self-examination, liminal interrogation, concern with legitimacy, and the requirement of communicability, are implied by critical discourse and public debate. We then examine a recent set of polemics (between Doan Akin, Ali BayramoOlu, and Etyen Mahgupyan) in the Turkish press with the aid of these axes as well as techniques for the analysis of informal reasoning to determine what critical function such polemics may have. We conclude that critique survives as polemic in the Turkish press, but in such a way that the latter's publicity vitiates the former's communicability. The result is that polemics ultimately track the balance of power between social forces rather than being a transformative element within them.
Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 9
Authenticity and Subversion: Articulations in Protest Music Videos’ Struggle With Countercultural Politics and Authenticity
(Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2017) Way, L.C.S.
Between Consensus and Dissensus Difference, Equality, and Dialogue in Le Guin and Rancière
(Liverpool Univ Press, 2024) Eǧilmez, D. Burcu; Gursoy, A. Ozgur
In this article, we argue that Ursula K. Le Guin's writings are motivated by a complex political vision of cohabitation of different individuals that is compatible with the principle of their mutual equality. However, this alternative model of sociality based on "critical difference" and dialogue faces three potential objections: her vision of "being human" risks reproducing some of the blind spots of traditional humanism, it may overemphasize individual experience, and it implicitly privileges consensus. Bringing Le Guin's "literary" texts in dialogue with Jacques Ranci & egrave;re's "philosophical" texts, we articulate a more complex and nuanced understanding of political dialogue that takes into account the disruptive nature of equality.
Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 4
The Changing Configurations of Self-(m) Other Dialogue in North Cyprus
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010) Ilter, Tugrul; Alankuş, Sevda
This paper deals with issues of identity, nationalism, postcolonialism, and selfother relations with a focus on a period of transformative events in North Cyprus. It notes how nationalism has been the dominant means of identification for Cypriots in their modern history, and argues that unless weakened and supplanted by a radically pluralist democracy, nationalism imagines one's identity as an indivisible unity and has no place for different others within the nation. However, a pressing relationship with others and otherness is no stranger to Cypriots either, which makes it clear that the border that defines the 'we' of such nationalism is, at the same time, the line that divides the self intrinsically, indicating the otherness of the self or its alterity. Subjectivity involves subjection to the other.
Citation - WoS: 9
Citation - Scopus: 11
Comparing Online Alternative and Mainstream Media in Turkey: Coverage of the Tekel Workers Protest Against Privatization
(Usc Annenberg Press, 2015) Dogu, Burak
Challenging the dominance of mainstream media, this study questions the role of alternative news media in Turkey based on the approach that positions alternative media as an alternative to mainstream media. Quantitative content analysis is carried out with a particular focus on the antiprivatization protest by workers of the Tobacco, Tobacco Products, Salt and Alcohol Enterprises (TEKEL). It has been found that alternative media showed support for TEKEL workers by employing a tone in favor of the protesters. However, evidence from the research indicates that the depiction of the TEKEL workers protest by alternative media, to a large extent, relies on mainstream framing practices.
Citation - WoS: 10
Citation - Scopus: 13
Conditions of Sense Making and News Making in Turkey After the Failed Coup Attempt: Sisyphus Labor on Two Fronts
(Sage Publications Inc, 2017) Akin, Altug
Turkey has been experiencing events with major impacts on almost all areas of life, including journalism, since the failed coup attempt of 15 July. Since then, the public's access to healthy news by the public and news making by journalists/news organizations have become increasingly crucial, yet complex operations. This article focuses on the 2 months after failed coup attempt, from the events that took place in the very first hours of the coup attempt, which are presented and discussed from media and communication perspective. This is followed by a detailed critical examination of consequently declared state of emergency in relation to news and news organizations. Then, post-coup attempt situation in Turkey is contextualized in a global tendency, namely, increasing complexity in sense making as journalistic institutions' public service roles deteriorate.
Contested Frames and the Media in Environmental Protests: Shifting the Geothermal Debate in the Turkish Aegean
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Dogu, Burak; Pasin, Begum
The Turkish Aegean hosts extensive geothermal resources, a very fertile agricultural land where a variety of distinct agricultural products are grown. Although the geothermal resources in the region offer an important potential for energy production, their exploitation has triggered protests due to its damaging impact on agriculture. In this study we explore how the news media and movement actors frame geothermal energy development in the region and examine the dynamics of frame contests under a competitive authoritarian regime. We analyze the movement organizations' tactics and strategies in counter-framing, revealing the factors affecting frame diffusion. Our findings indicate that the framing efforts are shaped by several factors including the capacity of civic organizations and their networking efforts, the locals' political orientation, demographic variations, opposition background, visible damage in the vicinity, and the extent of grievances.
Citation - WoS: 8
Citation - Scopus: 12
Coverage of Bombings for Political Advantage: Turkish On-Line News Reporting of the 2016 Ankara Attacks
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) Way, Lyndon C. S.; Akan, Aysun
On 17 February 2016, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing 28 people and injuring another 61 in the heart of Turkey's capital Ankara. A few hours after the attack, the Turkish government blamed Salih Neccar from the (mostly) Kurdish-Syrian People's protection Unit (YPG). Two days later, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility and named the bomber as Abdulbaki Somer a Turkish citizen. The bombing is part of a resumption of violence in Turkey between Turkish government authorities and Kurdish groups. In this paper, we examine how on-line news stories recontextualise the bombing. We assert that news sources multimodally recontextualise the bombing in ways which are advantageous to the news organisations' owners, political alliances and supporters. By each news source representing their political interests unquestionably positive and opposition unconditionally negative, polarisation in Turkish politics is articulated. This does nothing to solve problems and heal wounds in a time of national crisis.
Citation - WoS: 1
Citation - Scopus: 1
Digital Voices, Discursive Power: the Siege of Turkey's Digital News Media by Interpretive Journalism
(Sage Publications Inc, 2025) Uzunoglu, Sarphan
This study applies interpretative journalism, framing theory, and hybrid media theory to examine how independent Turkish journalists strategically use YouTube commentary to navigate restrictive political environments. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach-combining quantitative content analysis of 810 YouTube video titles and qualitative critical discourse analysis of 30 video transcripts from Turkish Journalists Fatih Altayl & imath;, Ru & scedil;en & Ccedil;ak & imath;r, and Murat Yetkin's YouTube channels-the research identifies distinct stylistic strategies including provocative populism, deliberative analysis, and contextual critique. Findings reveal that negative sentiment and crisis framing dominate headlines, serving both algorithmic visibility and public engagement, yet raising ethical concerns regarding sensationalism and polarization. Ultimately, the study underscores digital commentary journalism's complex role in sustaining democratic discourse under authoritarian pressures, highlighting both adaptive innovation and potential compromises in journalistic integrity.
Citation - WoS: 9
Citation - Scopus: 11
Discourses of Popular Politics, War and Authenticity in Turkish Pop Music
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013) Way, Lyndon C. S.
Turkey and the United States (US) have had a close mutually beneficial political and military relationship since the end of World War Two. However, this relationship came under pressure when the US government and Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) tried to cooperate closely in the 2003 military invasion of Iraq. AKP's leadership failed to persuade Turkey's parliament to accept the deployment of US troops and equipment in Turkey partially due to public opinion. Despite Turkish media and its government being intertwined to the extent where subversive discourses are all but silenced, some popular music videos were able to articulate discourses which questioned AKP's military policies. This paper analyses lyrics, visuals and sounds of one of these songs to look at the way war and political issues become articulated through a form of simplified popular politics, despite being presented as serious and authentic by a number of key signifiers across the different modes. A number of scholars have addressed the issue of subversion in music both as actual political challenge and as popular counter culture. This case study is used to assess subversion in music in these terms in order to consider its likely place in political debate in Turkey.
Citation - WoS: 3
Discourses on Somali Piracy Intervention and Legitimacy
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Way, Lyndon C. S.
Piracy off Somalia's coast has gained the imagination of the public and the attention of the media. Using critical discourse analysis, this paper considers stories about Somali piracy on the international BBC news website. A twin analysis is undertaken to determine how those involved in piracy and their actions are represented as well as how macro-discursive strategies of legitimation are employed. An historical contextualisation of Somalia and piracy complements the analysis. These analyses reveal how news stories do not focus on Somalis but on negative representations of pirates and positive representations of Western military powers. A number of linguistic strategies are identified that emphasise Western powers and articulate discourses that legitimate the continuing presence and actions of Western militaries. These discourses are drawn upon at the expense of discourses sympathetic to the plight of Somalis. These findings not only call into question the BBC's claims to objectivity, but also highlight the fact that stories do not promote conditions suitable for an end to piracy.
Citation - WoS: 1
Citation - Scopus: 3
Does Journalism Exist in Turkey? Constraints on and Struggles in the Field of Journalism in the Post-Coup Context
(Brill, 2019) Akin, Altug
In this article, I analyze the post-coup media and communications environment in Turkey with a particular focus on the practice of journalism, which is becoming increasingly complicated. Following an approach that considers both the constraints imposed on journalism and struggle for news-making, this study represents an attempt to better comprehend the most recent condition of the field of journalism in Turkey, where both producing the news and making sense of the news have become increasingly arduous endeavors. In order to study the structural constraints and struggles of journalists and news organizations, I deploy Pierre Bourdieu's field theory as a theoretical framework to scrutinize the current situation of journalism in Turkey.
Citation - WoS: 13
Citation - Scopus: 15
Environment as Politics: Framing the Cerattepe Protest in Twitter
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) Dogu, Burak
Environmental protests across the globe are often studied with a particular focus on their environmental aspects, but these protests are also embedded in a local political setting shaped by governmental policies. Recent environmental protests in Turkey, which appear to be based on ecological grievances, have developed as a response to political decisions that gave priority to economic development and national interests over environmental concerns. This study examines the political character of the environmental protest in Cerattepe, and focuses on the framing practices of its players in order to see if their motivations transcended environmental concerns. The research combines framing with network analysis, and studies the propagation of frames through Twitter. It has been found that the political economic aspects became predominant in the protest network, while the frames fostered dense connections between activist groups.
Citation - WoS: 2
From Life To Its Online School: an Analysis of Alain De Botton's 'the School of Life' as Strategy and Tactic
(Marmara Univ, Fac Communication, 2020) Karanfil, Y Gökçen; Gürsoy, A. Özgür
Through a critical engagement with the literature on the conceptualizations of culture, this article focuses on the possibilities for empowerment and social agency that may be found in manifestations of everyday popular culture and the critiques of this approach that voice their oppressive nature. The article draws on Michel de Certeau's distinction between strategies and tactics, as qualified by Michel Foucault's use of the same conceptual pair, in order to develop a conceptual grid that emphasizes their imbrication or mutual conditioning. The key advantage offered by this grid is that it makes visible the inherently ambivalent nature of cultural products and the way in which constraining strategies and liberating tactical reversals are both made possible on the same shared site. It thus argues that popular cultural works may subvert the manipulative imperatives of the culture industry only from within a strategically structured social field. It thereby becomes possible to acknowledge the insights of the culture industry perspective of critical theory, while providing a more nuanced interpretation and evaluation of certain works of popular culture. The conceptual analysis is then applied to The School of Life (an online educational organization initiated by the popular author, philosopher, and entrepreneur Alain de Botton) both to offer an examination of this cultural artifact and to test the assumptions the theoretical framework developed.
Citation - WoS: 8
Citation - Scopus: 22
Gezi Movement and the Networked Public Sphere: a Comparative Analysis in Global Context
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2016) Vatikiotis, Pantelis; Yörük, Zafer Fehmi
The article draws on Gezi protests that took place in Turkey during the summer of 2013, inquiring the extent to which they were part of a global cycle of contention that has shocked the world the last 5 years. In this regard, concepts and constructs of social movement, new media, networking, and public sphere provide analytical tools to probe into the area. Issues that are addressed and critically discussed include the evaluation of the contemporary protest movements in terms of the global diffusion of neoliberal capitalism, the intersection of social media and collective action, and the critical reflection on the interplay between physical and mediated facets of action.
Citation - Scopus: 1
Historical a Priori as Form of Life: the Rationality of Social Practices in Foucault's Archaeology in Terms of Wittgensteinian Criteria
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2025) Gürsoy, Ö.
The concept of rule permeates Foucault's methodological formulations concerning the object of his investigation, but he offers few explicit discussions of the epistemological status of such rules. My claim is that the explication of Foucauldian rules in terms of Wittgensteinian criteria clarifies their epistemological status, and thereby enables one to formulate a novel conception of the historical a priori, one that is defensible against recurrent objections which charge that Foucault's theoretical reflections confuse concepts that are distinct. Foucault and Wittgenstein are best seen as articulating a sense of intelligibility in which forms are integral to content and meaning is not abstracted from social practices. 'Form of life' increases the conceptual cogency of 'historical a priori,' whereas the latter delineates what it would be like to take the former's historicity seriously. © Özgür Gürsoy, 2024.
Introduction Media, Politics and Culture in Turkey, the Middle East and Beyond
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2019) Akin, Altug; Yesil, Bilge
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Language and Power
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011) Way, Lyndon C. S.
[Abstract Not Available]
The LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey a Qualitative Network Analysis of Actors’ Connections
(Duke University Press, 2025) Pasin, Begum; Dogu, Burak
Based on in-depth interviews and secondary data, this study investigates how the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey establishes and uses networks at the individual and organizational levels. At the individual level, the article reveals the networking practices of actors engaged in the LGBTI+ movement and examines the effects of networking on their identification with the movement, as well as their decision-shaping processes. At the organizational level, it explores networking practices with a particular focus on resource transfer. The study's findings indicate that these two levels are complementary, facilitating the expansion of the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey. Networks not only help LGBTI+ individuals socialize and identify themselves with the movement but also contribute to its mobilization by enabling the transfer of material and nonmaterial resources between organizations.
The Limits of Experience: Idealist Moments in Foucault's Conception of Critical Reflection
(Philosophy Today Depaul Univ, 2018) Gürsoy, A. Özgür
In Foucault's theoretical writings, the problem of experience occurs in two shapes: his (earlier) discussions of limit-experience and his (later) definition of experience. In this article, I propose an interpretation of the concept of limit-experience in Foucault's historiography according to which experience is already limit-experience, and not its static and confining other. I claim that Foucault's concept of experience involves spatially and temporally indexed, rule-governed practices and that his interrogation of experience becomes critical not by referring to some other of reason but by rendering visible the flip side of the limits of our own space of reasons. The argument in support of my interpretation of Foucault develops in two parts: 1) Foucault's methodology should be seen not as historicizing the transcendental, but as giving it up. 2) This renunciation of the transcendental is nonetheless only intelligible and motivated against the background of the problematic of (the limits of) experience in Kant and Hegel. It thereby becomes possible to provide not a foundation but a justification for a Foucaultian critique of the limits of experience.

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