The representation of Turkish immigrant women in the Turkish and German printed media in germany

The aim of this study is to show the depiction and representation of the Turkish immigrant women in the Turkish and German printed media in Germany. This study will describe the immigration wave to Germany, which had started with the supply of Turkish labour force to the German labour market pursuant to the agreement dated October 31, 1961, as well as political and economic landscape of Turkey prior to the immigration of Turks and the image of Germany as the land of their dreams. In order to illustrate how immigrant women are depicted in the Turkish and German printed media published in Germany, this study explores such subjects as the long-term stay of immigrant workers, which has started with them having their spouses and children join them through family reunification in the 1970s, as well as language and integration issues of Turkish immigrant women in the context of their roles within the family as wives and mothers on the one hand and with respect to their working conditions in the public sphere on the other. Within this framework, the immigrant women and their representation in the printed media within the context of gender discrimination and the divide between traditional and modern Turkish women will be analysed through newspaper articles regarding this matter. To this end, articles on Turkish immigrant women from the newspapers "Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Bild and Hürriyet" published in Germany in April 2013 will be put under the microscope in a comparative manner. Keywords:Immigration of labour force, Turkish immigrants, genderdiscrimination, printed media, Turkish immigrant women, representations ofwomen