A Critical Discourse Analysis of German Media: 24 June 2018 General Elections of Turkey

Events like Arab Spring, Syrian Civil War, Refugee Crisis and the rise of DAESH that happened after 2010, lead to destabilization of political situation and governments in many of the Middle Eastern countries and created a power vacuum in the region. Turkey with its politically stable and relatively strong economic power became one of the countries to be first contacted in the region. Turkey’s changing foreign policy also started to drift apart from the US and EU’s regional foreign policy which brought the attention of the foreign media on Turkey and especially on the government. European in general and German media in particular started cover the domestic policy and foreign policy of Turkey in detail and generally depicts it negatively. Events in Turkey are covered with news, interviews and documentaries in the European media on nearly daily basis. However, there are very few research on the discourse used in those news. This article aims to point this gap through subjecting the discourse created on 24 June 2018 Turkish Early General Elections by two important German media organ, Tageszeitungand Süddeutsche Zeitung, to the critical discourse analysis