Özet:

In this study, which focuses on the media impact in the construction process of the other, the Australians, who were involved in the forces of the ANZAC fighting with the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, in other words, with the Turks, were taken to the ground. In a country where there is no compulsory military service, a case among the factors that drive Australian citizens to war has been chosen as an example event and the form of news in the period of the case has been studied. In the framework of the study that the highest number of content producing periodic newspapers were selected as sample, the news was subject to content analysis. In a small mining town in the country's New South Wales region (Broken Hill), the armed attack carried out by two inhabitants of the Middle East was observed by political and bureaucratic actors and the Australian press feeding them. In a few newspapers, the President of the Australian Ottoman Society S.J. Attiah's letter explains that the action does not have to do with the Turks, but it is found that the news mainly used the Turkish self-determination language. As a result, the news language serving to the isolation of the Turks, which was defined by the state as "enemy" but not recognized by the Australian people in the relevant period, directly or indirectly contributed to the propaganda of the war period, can be stated that it is in the intention of promoting voluntary military activity in the war against the enemy "even penetrating into the country".

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Özet:

In this study, which focuses on media influence during the construction of the otherness, the Australians who were a part of the ANZAC forces fighting against the Ottoman Empire, i.e. the Turks, in the First World War are scrutinized. In the country without compulsory military service, a case which is one of the factors that plunged Australian citizens into war is chosen as a case study and how the media covered this incident in that period is examined. In the study, where newspapers with the highest coverage on the topic in the relevant period were chosen, the news underwent content analysis. In a small mining town (Broken Hill) located in the New South Wales region of the country, two settlers of the Middle Eastern origin made an armed attack, which political and bureaucratic players and Australian media supported by such players accused the Turks. A small number of newspapers published the letter penned by S.J. Attiah, the President of the Ottoman Association in Australia, explaining that the Turks had nothing to do with the attack, but it was observed that the language used by newspapers attempted to stigmatize the Turks as the other. As a result, it may be suggested that the language used by the press directly or indirectly contributed to the propaganda in the relevant war period, serving to construct the image of Turks, who were defined by the state as “enemy” but were not known by the Australian people, as the other and encouraged the voluntary enlistment in the war against the “infiltrating” enemy.