Özet:

The problem known as East Turkistan problems in Turkey even though it has remained on the agenda for years has become a news topic actively in World public opinion in recent years especially after China allegedly activated “concentration camps” in the context of “assimilation politics”. On the other hand, China rejected the allegations by claiming that the aforementioned camps are “career training centers”. When the strategic and economical struggle between China and U.S.A. has been taken into account Xinjiang problem became one of the main issues between these two states. As sharing common race, language and religion with Uyghurs, the attitude of Turkish government and public opinion towards this issue is significantly important for all parts. Thereby the news made by international media about Xinjiang aimed at Turkish public opinion are strategically significant. In this study the framing of the news in Turkish about Xinjiang made by media institutions American oriented Voice of America (VOA), German oriented Deutsche Welle (DW), China oriented China Radio International (CRI) and Russian oriented Sputnik were analyzed. In the light of analyzes of the five news from each of the institutions (twenty news totally), the results demonstrated that VOA and DW used the main frame of “human rights violations” while CRI and Sputnik were using the main frames of “war on terrorism”. Furthermore, it was seen that VOA used “assimilation”, “oppression”, “unresponsiveness” and “Turkey”; DW used “assimilation”, “oppression” and “Turkey”; CRI and Sputnik used “terror”, “defense”, and “Turkey” as sub frames in their news. The sub frame of “Turkey” took place in all four of the analyzed institutions’ news and this fact demonstrated the significance given by international media to Turkey in the problem of Xinjiang. 

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