The Relationships of Turkey-European Union towards Customs Union in Turkish press content analysis work

in ABSTRACT OF MASTER THESIS THE RELATIONSHIPS OF TURKEY - EUROPEAN UNION TOWARDS CUSTOMS UNION IN TURKISH PRESS CONTENT ANALYSIS WORK N. Dilek ÇOPURO?LU DEMİRDELEN Press and Publishing Anadolu University Social Science Institute September 2000 Supervisor: Assistant Professor Gürsel GÜR In this study, in order to determine the manner of the Turkish Press about Turkey- European Union relationships in progression of Customs Union, solution of the messages on issues of interest from newspapers having different politics identities, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Türkiye, and Zaman, were stadied by means of content analysis. Thus, by interpretation about the features of unwritten/implicit content via the characteristics of published/explicit contents of social reality, what method the press employ in directing and reflecting the information, announcing and forming the public opinion was tried to te explained. This study is composed of eight chapters. Chapter I presents why this research was done. That is, the purposes, importance, assumptions, limitations, and method of the research are introduced. Turkey/European Union relations, communication and mass- communication, characteristics and functions of the press, and the relationship between the press and foreign policy are examined in Chapters II, III, IV, and V, respectively. Chapter VI deals with the method of the content analysis. The findings and comments from the application of this technique to our research material constitute Chapter VII. In the last chapter, results and future works/suggestions are presented.