The Role of the State in Turkish Media in Light of Hallin and Mancini’s “Comparative Media Systems

This paper analyzes the Turkish media system with the help of the theoretical framework developed by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini in their work (2004) “Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics.” As they brought about in their work, media systems develop under a variety of social and political structures, each of which with a distinct way for shaping the media system in question. In this paper, following their categorization of media systems, the author will analyze the basic characteristics of the media system in Turkey delineating its main features according to the 4 dimensions that were developed in their work. The study has a particular focus on the role of the state in Turkish media and the related questions that require further research.

Publisher: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007
Year of Publication: 2007