Özet:

This study examines the production of the idea of West in the news of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT). The article is based on the idea that the classification between the East and the West consists of a categorization practise, more than a geographical distinction. The concept of Occidentalism, as the theoretical framework of the study, is probed as the negative or positive production of the idea of the West that provide power. The result of framing analysis in the study indicates that the idea of the West in the news are produced in two fundamental frames which consist of “the frame to describe the West and stress the ontological distinction” and “the frame to conceptualise an imaginative “us”. The results of the study also show that the political elites have a hegemonic position in the construction of the idea of the West. It is also a fact that the image of the West constructed in the news are instrumentalised to shape and manipulate domestic policies

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