Foreign policy reporting in Turkey: The content analysis of national newspapers news intended for 2012 Syria crisis

In 2010, the Arab Spring in North Africa and the Middle East revolution began in Syria, which borders neighboring Turkey has begun to show the effects as soon as possible. The Arab Spring also qualify as turning point in Turkey-Syria relations. Especially in the middle of 2012. happened between Syria and Turkey, being a matter for Turkey's foreign policy has become more a matter of domestic policy. On 22 June 2012, shooting without warning in international waters of the Turkish military jet by Syria, it has led to a deterioration of relations between the two countries. After Turkish jets crisis, as a result of the bullets hit the ball Akçakale border from Syria in October, the two countries came to the threshold of war. It also showed that the issue is a sensitive issue that concerns the whole country, with many dimensions. On 11 October 2012 Turkey forced the passenger plane from Russia to Syria forced landing in Ankara's Esenboga Airport and Syrian airspace due to become unsafe, has suspended flights of Turkish civil aircraft in the region. Syria issue for Turkey as a result of these developments has become a foreign policy issue that must be approached more carefully. The year 2012 all three crises that protects the importance of Turkish foreign policy, a correct understanding of the meaning and convey to the reader by the Turkish press is caused to face responsibility. The Syrian issue in due to a serious crisis in the field Turkey can have important consequences in terms of foreign policy, correct and be able to complete a foreign policy journalism, to convey to the reader the facts scraped from the ideological point of view and analysis by considering different issues have been be very difficult for the media. This journalistic responsibility in this research is to answer the extent to fulfillment. With this research is to answer to what extent fulfillment of journalistic responsibility. More and done in careful coordination of transmission to the public by the press, the crisis experienced in foreign policy journalism, will prevent the unrest in the society, it is of strategic importance and that is why it is important as external reporting in this respect. In this study, it is evaluated how turkish jet Akçakale and Syrian passenger plane that are investigated in scope of Syrian crisis of 2012 years are introduced in tuskish printing press by using technique of content anlaysis from news of Cumhuriyet, Zaman and Sabah. Research in 2012 by the Turkish jets attack occurred June 23 to June 30, experiencing the crisis of Akçakale Syrian airliner attack it covers the period between October 3 to October 17 date. A total of 386 reports have been examined in the study. From research results, it is shown that newspapers approach from different aspects of ideological/political about relationship with government in field of Turkish foreign policy journalism. But it has been seen that despite ideological differences as well as the overall foreign policy of the Syrian government newspaper journalism field to the crisis they see the same perspective. Because newspapers have only adhere to the decision-makers in foreign policy journalism and they move between the results obtained from their comments and explanations. On the other hand Syria in the production of news about the crisis definite information of experienced uncertainty as a result of failure to achieve that unfounded allegations, caused to be thrown out of the conspiracy thesis, newspapers in foreign policy news as a result, they move so that their agenda. However, Turkish foreign policy has been reporting on the events of the reader with the crisis confrontational news content. Especially newspapers, Turkish jets and The Akçakale crisis read the attack as Syria and as an indicator of a possible war with Syria in reprisal for the news. Thus, news of the negative attitude towards Syria is thought to create a high threat of condemnation rate was found to be quite high. Keywords: Foreign policy, News, İn 2012 Syria crisis, National, Newspapers