The problems of public relations educatin in Turkey's communication faculties

In this study to ascertain the facts of the situation related to public relations education and its' problems in Turkey by using literature survey, questionnaire application, semi-structured interview, e-mail receiving methods. Firstly, communication faculties in Turkey have been determined in general and public relations, public relations and advertisement, public relations and advertising departments have been examined according to number of theoretic and practical courses. Then, to narrow the sample from the oldest three state and three foundation universities have been selected to examine them in more detail. Available datas were mainly gotten from the web pages of the universities, and telephone calls were made if necessary. Primarily target is try to understand the effectiveness of the universities' existence and their informations availability from the internet and virtual environment. Later on, semi-structured interviews were substantiated with academicians and public relations professionals. Informations were collected via telephone interviews, research questions on e-mail methods. After these applications, a questionnaire was applied to academicians and students; The student questionnaire was analyzed in the SPSS program. Since there was no participation in the academician questionnaire, the demographic data were presented about this issue.