Abstract:

Technological advances in the world have led to a number of changes in the communication tools. As a result of these development, radio, newspapers, magazines, telegraph, telephone, television, satellite systems of today and communication tools such as internet have emerged. The emergence of these tools not only affect the society in technological and social fields, but also led to the political channel to become more efficent. The press, showing the rapid development in 19th and 20th century, has become the most important means to create the necessary public opinion for the realization of events, they wanted to see and hear. The newspapers, the first and most effective mass communication organs in modern sense, have a quite impact on society.In this study, the one of newspapers as the indispensable elements of the press, the function of Yeni Adana, the local media publication in Adana will be used. In the study, it will be tried to reveal how it was looked to the events of 6th/7th September in “Yeni Adana” which follow social, political, economic, religious, cultural and natural events concerning of Turkish Republic and the contemporary world live in and comment those events with the point of view of newspaper. The newspaper’s editorial principles, identity, front-page articles, the attitude of Adana and Cukurova people toward the events of 6th/7th September, how it took part by kneading with the impact of political lines and as a propaganda tool by the society will be exposed

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