The role of political communication in the construction of the ideal citizen envision: Example of Adalet ve Kalkınma Party's 2023 vision

The phenomenon of the state is a concept which has been questioned from the Ancient Greek until today and still is being questioned. Thus, several philosopher and theoreticians put forward an idea about the state's nature, improvement and the future. There is also the change of the ruler ship and the political life in the history of Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The historical process of state synchronously causes the transformation of the citizenship notion. Loyalty to the state matters in terms of legitimacy to the state and that causes states try and struggle for creating their own ideal citizens. In this study, the basic concepts, definitions, discussions that are related to the state's existence and action will be examination from Ancient Greek to the modern state process. Within this context, embodied changes which are related with citizenship and nationality will tackle with the history of Europe and Turkey. Also, political communication concept that is chosen by the states for the effective ideal nationality envisions and examples from the Turkey will be examination. Survey part of the study, to tackle the ideal nationality envision which is want to create in Turkey in the last years will be analyzed by the content analysis method of 240 news from the online versions of the newspapers Hürriyet, Milliyet, Sabah and Cumhuriyet which involve 2023 vision of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi.