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Publication How does the political enter the newsroom? The representation of the Kurdish ‘Other’ in Turkish journalism(Sage Publications, 2021-05-07) Aşık, Ozan; AŞIK, MEHMET OZAN; Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi; Sosyoloji Bölümü; 0000-0002-5588-2376; JZT-3421-2024In this article, I examine how journalists working for the Turkish national mainstream televisual media represent Kurds - a significant national 'Other' of Turkish society - in the process of news production. My research is based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted between 2011 and 2014 in the newsrooms of two Turkish television channels with different political outlooks and experiences. The study reveals an unprecedented interest of mainstream television media in the inclusionary representation of Kurds during the research period due to a temporary change to the traditional Turkish state policy toward Kurds. In this new political context, I argue that the journalistic practice and discourse on Kurds is likely to be determined by political differences among Turkish journalists. The Turkish journalists working for these two different channels, for example, seek to justify and advance conflicting political agendas since they have contradicting political worldviews and political experiences. Based on these findings, this article demonstrates how the three factors of political worldview, political experience, and political context combine to shape journalistic values - the values which orient various stages of news production, at which journalists imagine, categorize, and articulate the Kurds and decide how to represent them in news outputs.Publication The fall of the public and the moral contestation in the journalistic culture of turkey(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017-01-01) Aşık, Ozan; AŞIK, MEHMET OZAN; Uludağ Üniversitesi; 0000-0002-5588-2376; AAA-2816-2021The deepening social polarization and increasing state pressure in Turkey undermines the participation of journalists as the custodians of public interest in the public sphere based on the principle of common good. Using the data of my ethnographic fieldwork in newsrooms, I explore the features of legitimate journalistic activity without normative connection to the public. The Islamic-based ruling party (AKP) attempts to transform the public into its own intimate, family-like sphere. Journalists are compelled to either totally merge with the akp-friendly family that dominates the public, or retreat to the privacy of the newsroom as an act of resistance and withdraw from contact with the 'other' journalistic community. Examining this "otherization" and isolation is crucial to understanding the ways in which the pursuit of professional ethics is replaced by self-centered norm-defining practices articulated in the rhetoric of intimacy rather than of the debate-oriented public sphere of journalists.