Abstract:

The staff who founded the Turkish Republic aimed that Turkish woman to be equal with men in social and cultural domains including law, education and work life from the beginning. However it was not an easy task to be able to impose revolutions which aimed to raise the level of Turkish woman to the modern world whom their rights reduced to almost zero level due to the religion related issues. In this study, I analyzed that how Cumhuriyet newspaper provided a contribution to the shaping of the modern Turkish woman image, based on the suggestion that how mass media contributed to the modern life style and values of society. During the study newspapers from 1930 to 1935 scanned to introduce the modern, contemporary image of Turkish women. The study done with a descriptive analysis methodology by scanning and processing news articles to find out how Turkish women fictionalized, mirrored and represented.

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