Communicating Democracy - Democratizing Communication: Media in Turkey: Legislation, Policies, Actors
Journal: OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin)
Year: 2011

This report is an attempt to understand the relationship between media and democracy in Turkey. Towards that end, it situates the media in its political and historical context. It argues that Turkey’s media structure falls under the “Mediterranean or Polarised Pluralistic Model” developed by Hallin and Mancini due to the very low level of newspaper circulation, the tradition of advocacy journalism, the structure of media ownership, the absence of an autonomous profession immune to pressure from