Presentation of April 16, 2017 Referendum On Newspaper Headlines Hürriyet, Sabah, S？zcü and Posta Example

Since referendum is perceived as a political choice in society, along with the political campaigns ran on the purpose of enlightening the community, political parties are also carrying out certain works in order to affect the choices of the people will make in voting ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in the referendum. The most important instrument to announce the political communication activities with regards to being influent in referendum votes to public is media. It is aimed in the study to reveal how the media reflects the political communication activities that political parties carry out during the referendum period. In accordance with this purpose, 12 news headlines in total that were published by Hürriyet, Sabah, S？zcü and Posta newspapers on their front pages on the dates of April 15, 2017, April 16, 2017 and April 17, 2017 with regards to referendum were evaluated and analyzed within the framework of Van Dijk’s discourse analysis method. It is concluded within the scope of the research that the newspapers analyzed reflect some of the news regarding referendum far from objectivity with an editorial bias