News Coverage of Violence Against Women: Turkish Case

News reports of violence against women were analyzed. Data collected from four different mainstream newspapers over a four-month period. Textual analysis indicated that Turkish press embodied a victim blaming attitude and emphasized victims’ morality, their adherence to gender norms, their careless or provocative behavior, and even accused them of inventing the crime. The stories are developed in a paradoxical frame in which the narrative that males are only victims of their passion and obsession for women is juxtaposed with contentions hinted in the stories that signal male dominance in the society.

Publisher: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans Sheraton, New Orleans, LA, May 27, 2004
Year of Publication: 2004