The reflection of the changing language structure of Turkish upon newspaper headlines

This research intends to unfold the reflection of the changing language structure of Turkish upon newspaper headlines (news, interviews, columns, etc.). This research also shows that foreign language synonyms of Turkish words are used simutenously in the same news article or in a different time in different news articles. The idea that foreign words are generally accepted when they are read with a publishing policy like this and forthermore that these words are put to use instead of Turkish ones constitutes the corner stone of this study. The research sample is the newspaper Hürriyet which has been published since 1948. The reason for choosing newspaper Hürriyet resides on the grounds that it has a long publishing history and the idea that it is giving the necessary importance to the Turkish language because it holds the statement 'Turkey belongs to theTurks' in its logo. In the study, the digitilized printed media has been used as the data collection tool. Newspaper Hürriyet and foreign words that passed into Turkish have been typed in search engines and the articles found were analysed and studied in detail. The meaning of the foreign words were looked up in the dictionaries on the website of the Turkish Language Associaton (Türk Dil Kurumu); however, the meaning of the new words in use that could not be found were looked up on another online dictionary website called 'Sesli Sözlük'. It has been observed that the newspaper has been using synonyms of Turkish words from foreign languages in the same news, interviews, columns etc. Presenting synonyms of Turkish words from foreign languages to the reader is thought to cause a corruption linguistically and an alienation to the mother tongue. It has also been perceived that foreign words are preferred to use without their Turkish synonyms. Since it has been observed that the Turkish Language Association (TLA) has not yet given any definition for some words in use, that it has not named some inventions and conecpts on social media and that it not been up-to-date, the website 'Sesli Sözlük' has been used apart from the Turkish Language Association. Keywords: Turkish Language Association (TLA) , news, headline, topic, foreign words