TURKEY – NORTHERN IRAQ RELAT？ONS IN NEWS D？SCOURSE: THE PROCESS OF NORTHERN IRAQ REFERANDUM

This study aims to investigate reflections of independence referendum made in Iraq Kurdish autonomous region in Turkish and Kurdish press and discourse take place about referandum in the news. The web site news related to referendum of Sabah the newspaper from Turkey and Rudaw the newspaper from Kurdish autonomous region has been examined between 23-27 September 2017 in the scope of the study. In this context, study focuses how independence referendum has been reported as news in the press of both country. Teun Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis methodology is used in the study. According to the results of the analysis, it has been determined that Sabah and Rudaw the newspapers, express the dominant ideology of their home country's power. It has been observed that the newspapers evaluate the news in the frame of their own ideology and create new realities. Furthermore these realities have been provided through the headlines, word choice and comments of the event parties of the news texts