THE REPRESENTATION OF TERROR IN TURKISH AND FRENCH PRESS: THE PRESENTATION OF ANKARA AND PARIS ATTACKS

Abstract

The media today has a great significance in shaping all of the world, as political, economical and social-cultural. The most significant function of the media, which take over the primery role in comunication between ruling and ruled, is that the masses are manipulated. Fort he reason, the media is effectively used by the sovering powers. The media no doubt serves some ideology while doing this manipulating. Because of that the masses are manipulated towards the ideology that media serves. The terror attacks, which has been continuing increasingly to spread in 21st century throught the world, creates the great anxiety in societies. Today the terror also effects as political, economical and socio-cultural to the whole of the world. In this direction, how the terror is presented by the media becomes significant. Especially, news tematic publications are taken by the masses without questioning because of the fact that these publications are more confidental ones. This situation can also cause that the masses are easily manipulated. In the study aims to reveal how media has a role at this spreading point, it was comparatively handled with using content analysis how Ankara and Paris attacks were presented. As a result, the same terror attacks were determined to be presented as highlighting or concealing of different topics in the different rates in the different newspapers.