Political system discussions in Turkish media

Abstract

In Turkey, after 2002 general elections the "Justice and Development Party" has come to the government by itself. Demilitarization of the political system of Turkey was gradually compleded and a new, civilian, participatory constitution is required. Discussions on a required new constutition has been accompanied by the strengthening the executive branch. In crisis situations, instead of strengthening the democratic partipatory institutions, it is always preferable to reorganize the political institutions in favor of the executive branch. In this context presitential system or semi-presidential system have been seen as a new model of govenment and guaranty of the stability of govenment instead of the existing semi-parliamentary / or / semi-semi-presidential political system. The media as an ideological aparatus of the state has been acted its role on the discussion programmes. The academicians, intellectuals and journalists as organic intellectuals have been discussing on "which political system is good for our democracy?" In this paper, it is aimed to analize the TV discussion programmes on a new political system. Metedologically three TV news channels and their discussion programmes will be chosen throughout four weeks. It is intended to analize the program contents on democratic discurses.