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Persuasive appeals, thematic content, and affordances on TikTok: evidence from the 2023 Turkey presidential elections: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Persuasive appeals, thematic content, and affordances on TikTok: evidence from the 2023 Turkey presidential elections
TikTok has become a central arena for political communication, especially in engaging younger voters. This study examines how Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu employed TikTok during the ...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Great review of recent books on Turkish media: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Review essay: Turkey’s limited pluralist authoritarian media system
Published in Turkish Studies (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2025)
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November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Public Knowledge and Expertise Under Authoritarian Siege: A Defense of Academic Freedom from Digital Journalism Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Public Knowledge and Expertise Under Authoritarian Siege: A Defense of Academic Freedom from Digital Journalism Studies
This article addresses the growing global assault on academic freedom—a cornerstone of democratic societies now under increasing threat from authoritarian regimes. It highlights a global decline in...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Love migrants as digital citizens: Turkish-speaking diaspora in Athens: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Love migrants as digital citizens: Turkish-speaking diaspora in Athens
This analysis explores how skilled migrants engage with media in a polarized and crisis-affected system across Greece and Türkiye. It focuses on the media use, self-expression, and social participa...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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October 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Buying State Power: How Elite-Led Propaganda Through Advertising Mechanisms is Connected to Democratic Weakening in Four Countries: Political Communication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Buying State Power: How Elite-Led Propaganda Through Advertising Mechanisms is Connected to Democratic Weakening in Four Countries
Top-down information control through strategic executions of propaganda campaigns does not only occur in autocratic countries, as we show here, political elites and allies in weakening democracies ...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Media Systems and Media Capture in Turkey: A Case Study | Article | Media and Communication url: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
Media Systems and Media Capture in Turkey: A Case Study | Article | Media and Communication
Murat Akser, Banu Baybars
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February 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) | New Perspectives on Turkey | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) | New Perspectives on Turkey | Cambridge Core
On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) - Volume 69
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February 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Full article: Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear
This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments’ fear of media and Turkish media’s fear of government authority with respect to the development of press fre...
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February 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM