| dc.description.abstract | This research is an identity-focus analysis of the Danish cartoon crisis in Turkish Islamic newspapers. Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons visually depicting Islam Prophet Mohammed on 30 September 2005. In a few months, mass protests began and spread to many countries. The newspapers gave wide coverage to the cartoon crisis. I have analyzed the cartoon crisis news in Turkish Islamic newspapers by appealing Critical Discourse Analysis. In this study, the critical approaches to concepts of identity and discourse were used. The results showed that all Islamic newspapers have common 14 discursive themes and similar narratives during the crisis. Although the newspapers have a consensus on some features of the identity representations, there are also conflicts between them. I explored the main two
approaches in Islamic newspapers; traditionalists and reformists. Nevertheless, each newspaper appealed to specific schemes, grammatical and semantic structures. As a result, they structured
various self/other nexus inside and outside of Turkey. | en_US |