Representation of terror attacks in 2015 in Ankara and Paris in the German public service television news: A comparative analysis

To the terror attacks and illegal organizations that are transmitted in the news on television, contents in parallel with the global dominant ideology can be added. Since 1980's, with the globalization of neo-liberal policies under the leadership of the United States of America and the collapse of Soviet Union provided USA to become a unipolar power. Accordingly, the global dominant ideology has started to be shaped in sequence with the interests of the United States, the incomes of the Western transnational corporations and the security of Israel in the Middle East. Thus, in accordance with the functionality of the global dominant ideology, some news frames that support this ideology can be used in the news that are about terrorism in different country's news on television channels. The aim of this thesis is to identify the news framings that provide the functionality of the global dominant ideology in the news which happened in 2015 about Ankara and Paris terror attacks that are transmitted in German national television channels Das Erste and ZDF's news programmes "Tagesthemen" and "Heute Journal" and in accordance, interpret and compare the discourses and images that shaped these news. KEYWORDS: Dominant Global İdeology, Representation of Terror in TV News, German National TV News, Das Erste, ZDF