Abstract:

Abstract enAccording to the results of a public opinion survey (What Arabs Think?) conducted in eight Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Kuwait and Jordan in 2002, which has been conducted about 12 foreign countries including Turkey, Turkey’s image in the Arab world was very negative at that time. This and many other research shows that Turkey has a negative image in the Arab countries for various reasons, in the 1990s. İt is assumed that the developments in both Turkey and the Arab world between the years 2002-2003 that directly affect Turkish-Arab relations, has changed the image of Turkey in the Arab public opinion. This image changed depending on developments in the Arab press, one of the areas where this change can be best observed. So the developments in the later periods also gave rise to the upsurge in this field. This research is based on the results obtained by scanning al-Hayat and Asharq al-Awsat newspapers published in London and distributed in Arab countries and in various cities of the world in the light of developments spreading over 2003 and the following years that believed to change the image of Turkey in the Arab press and on the results of the researcher’s master thesis “Turkey in the Arab press 2000-2001” based on the scanning of al-Ehram newspaper published in Cairo and the newspapers al-Hayat and Asharq al-Awsat published in London.

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