The corporation entered the media when Aydin Dogan acquired Milliyet newspaper in 1979. It has become one of the largest holdings in Turkey after the 1980s via neoliberal policies and grew over time with horizontal and vertical monopolization.
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The Periods of Crisis in the Ownership of the Media of Large Enterprises in Turkey
Basak Gezmen (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey) and Ihsan Eken (İstanbul Medipol University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 40
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9265-5.ch014
Abstract
Like every giant holding, large enterprises in the media may also face crisis in certain periods. This chapter will evaluate Dogan-Group and its publications in the context of the media industry in Turkey and will analyze the tax crisis the group in question experienced in 2009. In order to ensure an objective perspective in the research, the authors chose to examine the publications of newspapers which are thought to represent three different ideologies in Turkey. In this context, to ensure the objective approach in this study the 42 news reports published between February 2009 and September 2009, newspapers that are thought to have different viewpoints in Turkey, such as Sabah, Cumhuriyet, YeniSafak, and the so-called “flagship” of the group, Hurriyet Newspapers, have been investigated using content analysis. The time interval was chosen in accordance with the tax penalty. Content analysis method will be used in this study, and in this context, how much space the newspapers allocated to the crisis, their ways of handling the crisis, and the language they used when handling the crisis will be examined.