Middle East issues in Turkish media: Analysis of Iraqi news broadcasted on TRT news

In this study, it is aimed to determine the way TRT News handles the developments in Iraq, to determine the elements that it focuses on in the news fiction, to determine which information sources are used in the news content and how the news is framed. In the study carried out according to the general scanning model, between January 2021 and March 2022, the news content about Iraq in the main news bulletin of TRT News, the words used in the presentation of the news, the length and emphasis of them, the status of containing positive or negative values and the order in which they were given. analyzed using the content analysis method, which is frequently used in communication studies. At the end of the research, it has been determined that TRT's news about Iraq is news that informs the public about the location of Turkey's operation in northern Iraq, that these news are news in the category of security, politics and economy, and that the subject of the news is political actors and Turkish security forces.