Türk medyasının Avrupalılaşması: Avrupa Birliği ile ilgili gelişmeler Türkiye'deki gazetelerde nasıl ele alınıyor?

In this study I examine the extent to which elements of Europeanization are present in the Turkish media. Europeanization in media means going beyond predominant national discourses, developing similar perspectives and having similar levels of attention and similar amounts of news coverage on the developments about the European Union. It also refers to fulfilling the responsibility of providing an adequate flow of information about the EU related news.While there are numerous analyses of Europeanization of member states' media in the related literature, a comparable analysis of the Turkish media is lacking. This study aims to fill this gap with a comparative analysis of Turkish dailies' coverage of two key events: the first case is directly related to Turkey?s EU accession process (partial freezing of negotiation talks in 2006), the second case is a general EU development (Lisbon Treaty). I conducted a quantitative analysis on the related news and columns of six Turkish dailies within the specified time periods. This analysis reveals that Europeanization trend is only observed in the first case, whereas a prominent development about the future of the EU cannot find any place in the news. Furthermore, while news contents are similar, the same issue is reflected differently in newspapers depending on their ideology and pro / anti government stances. Besides, newspapers do not provide sufficient information about the EU related issues except when the issue is related to Turkeys own EU agenda.