Influence of media on internal and foreign politics: Example of Turkey

Although the media undertakes an important role about informing the individual, when consider the institutional scope, its relations and the possible influence, it could be said that media is in effectual position for evolution of society and political process. Therefore, it is possible to say that media is a strategic point for politic actors.In this study, media?s dynamics, relations with political actors and how it is shaped of the political process is given. Definition of political shaping and the mentioned network of the relations are described with several examples from past to this day. In this thesis study?s first part includes historical developments of the press on the focus of France, the United Kingdom, Soviet Russia and USA are the states which influenced the global politics. In the second part, it is focused on transformation of the media in Turkey. In this context, internal and external politics are studied while analyzing the media?s effects in both of parts.Generally it is focused on how to media influenced the political field and the society. At the present day, when analyzed existent political and social developments, it is introduced that necessity of analyzing the media in this research.