Media in New Turkey

Bilge Yesil is an associate professor of media culture at City University of New York, College of Staten Island. She is the author of Video Surveillance: Power and Privacy in Everyday Life.

"The rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey since the early 2000s and its overseeing of a growing economy and a forceful foreign policy have been one of the key forces shaping the Middle East in a turbulent decade bookended by the September 11 attacks and the Arab Uprisings. In Media in New Turkey , Yesil explores and explains the growth of Turkish media, its travails with the government, and its forays in the Middle East and Central Asia. Deftly eschewing media determinism, Yesil approaches Turkish media as a site of struggle between various strands of democratic and authoritarian politics, Islamism and neoliberalism. Both in its approach to the topic and in the important insights it provides, this book will be an original and lasting contribution to the literature on media, culture, and politics within and beyond the Middle East."--Marwan Kraidy, author of Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life"A very timely and enlightening book… Yesil uses considerable informal interview content as well as reference to abundant published sources to provide an excellent review of the processes that have undermined the rule of law in turkey, whether through state terrorism or political-economic collusion and corruption… Highly recommended."—Choice  "From a historical point of view, the book successfully underlines the centralized authoritarian character of the state. . . . It serves as an essential guide for scholars and students investigating recent concerns and/or the rooted tensions in the media-politics-culture triangle."--International Journal of Communication

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsIntroduction1. Politics and Culture in Turkey2. Political Economic Transformation of Media in the 1990s3. Containing Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in the 1990s4. The AKP Era: Between the Market and the State5. The Remaking of the Media-Military-State Relationships in the Early Twenty-First Century6. Gezi Park Protests, Corruption Investigation, and the Control of the Online Public SphereConclusionEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex