Turkish women image in German print media: Critical discourse analysis of the news of Der Spiegel Magazine between 2017-2020

After the second half of the 20th century, due to the labor shortage in post-war Germany, Labor Migration Agreement was signed between Germany and Turkey in 1961. As these groups of Turkish workers who came as guest workers stayed in Germany and thrived for generations. Turkish population of nearly one and a half million has been emerged in Germany as a result of this immigration. Thus, the position of Turks in the German media is significant. Within the scope of this study, Turkish-origin women and Turkish women-themed news of Der Spiegel magazine related to the years between 2017 and 2020 were analyzed. Filtered articles are examined in detail in macrostructure analysis based on Teun A. van Dijk's critical discourse analysis theory. It is aimed to conduct an interdisciplinary analysis by making use of different fields such as translation, linguistics, semiotics, psychology, discourse analysis and imagology in order to evaluate images and discourses. The results of the analysis have shown that there were 41 negative women representations while there were only 17 positive images of Turkish women. Turkish women are predominantly represented, as individuals who are exposed to male violence cannot stand on their ground by themselves, are under family pressure, cannot make decisions of their own free will, have still integration problems, and do not know the German language and culture. It is explicit that Turkish women were relatively represented in a negative way in Der Spiegel magazine based on the findings of this investigation.