This study is an attempt to define and explain the main information sources people applied to access more information during the Covid-19 pandemic process. Based on the findings of the field study, the study also aims to reveal the general perceptions of Turkish people towards the outbreak. According to the findings of the survey, conducted on 6021 people over 18 years old in 26 provinces in Turkey, people living in these provinces rely on information provided by the official authorities mostly and their perception towards the outbreak changed significantly both by the perceived proximity of the Covid-19 threat and flow of reliable information.

The television news center is affected by the culture and cultural identity of the society they live in during the reporting of the event. Therefore, any decision taken by the professionals working in the news center regarding the news will be a part of this harmonious whole and will have a common bond with the audience. The television news center uses news rhetoric to make viewers believe the information in the news. The cultural identities of the audience who want to be persuaded are also effective in shaping the news rhetoric. What the audience will like, what they value and ignore, or how they can better understand what is a reflection of their cultural identity, these options are considered in news rhetoric. The research aims to determine how and in what way Turkish cultural identity reflects on television news rhetoric. Thus, 150 news bulletins of the five most-watched news bulletins and 2250 news in these bulletins were examined, as they appeal to the majority of the society. The communicative mentality analysis method was used to determine the effects of culture and identity. As a result of the examination, it was concluded that there is a significant relationship between Turkish identity and news rhetoric.

Koronavirüs salgını, gündelik hayatın pek çok alanını dönüştürdüğü gibi haber yapma pratiklerini, haber metinlerini ve bunların bir sonucu olarak medya ve haber söylemini de değiştirmiştir. Toplumun enformasyon ihtiyacının görünür biçimde arttığı koronavirüs salgını dönemi, mevcut politik krizleri derinleştiren etkilerinin yanı sıra, yeni bir takım çatışma ve kriz başlıklarını haber söylemin başlıca teması haline getirmiştir. Çalışmada koronavirüs sürecinde haberlerin ideolojik yanlılık bağlamında incelenmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Çalışma kapsamında, farklı ideolojik konumlanışlara sahip olduğu düşünülen Sabah ve Cumhuriyet gazetelerinin basılı versiyonlarının dijital arşivde bulunan kopyalarının ilk sayfalarında yer alan haberler van Dijk'ın eleştirel söylem çözümlemesi metoduyla analiz edilmiştir. 'Pandeminin politikleştirilmesi' kavramı ışığında, pandemi haberlerinin ulusal ölçekte politik söylemlerle nasıl hizalandığı ya da ayrıştığı tartışılmaktadır. İncelenen gazetelerin, koronavirüs ile ilgili haberlerde sahiplik, içerik üretimi ve dil ve ifade kullanımı gibi farklı perspektiflerde politik konumlanışlarıyla bağlantılı olarak önemli ölçüde farklılaştıkları, salgınla mücadelede başarı ve başarısızlık vurgusunun bu farklılaşmanın net biçimde görülebildiği bir unsur olarak öne çıktığı sonuçlarına ulaşılmıştır.

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The critical approach claims that press organizations from time to time reproduce the ideology that power has, assuming the function of the ideological apparatus of the state, against the view that news texts advocated by the liberal approach act as mirrors when conveying events and transmit impartially. Many different elements come into play in the reproduction of ideology by press organizations. In addition to economic or political affiliations, culture, identity, or religious motivations can also be reasons for ideological intimacy. These reasons can be reflected in the news texts and enable ideology to shape the discourse. Therefore, the historical background plays an important role in determining the ideology of the state in the light of the historical, cultural, religious or linguistic aspects of the relationship between Turkey and Azerbaijan, and in the relationship between Turkey and Armenia. Thus, how the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Karabakh region reflected on Cumhuriyet, Turkgun and Sabah newspapers within the framework of these effects of ideology was examined by applying van Dijk's discourse analysis model. Eventually, it was determined how the ideological acceptance of Turkey in the Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijan and Armenia, was reflected by three newspapers. Finally, it was concluded that discourses of all three newspapers were ethnically unified but differed in ideology, religion and culture. Among the differences in question is that the newspapers Sabah and Turkgun, in particular, developed a more nationalistconservative and Pro-Azerbaijani discourse than Cumhuriyet newspaper.