Framing Diasporic Voices: Media Representations of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoğlu in Turkish News Media

Authors : Arvi Sepp, Serkan Bulut

Pages : 178-194

Doi:10.55143/alkad.1752985

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Publication Date : 2025-12-25

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Media texts, with their unique narrative capacities and intentional functions, are powerful instruments that actively incorporate strategies for reinforcing, transforming, and reconstructing meanings, often generating new ones in the process. For this reason, media texts can be analyzed to uncover the meanings they convey regarding specific topics, phenomena, or ideas. Within the scope of this contribution, the media frames of two prominent German-language authors of Turkish origin in Turkish news media are examined: Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoğlu. A comprehensive survey of both current and archival print media in Turkey is conducted, and these two authors are identified as those receiving the most frequent media coverage among Turkish-origin writers based in Germany. As such, newspaper articles featuring Özdamar and Zaimoğlu were compiled into a dataset for this research. Using a Media Studies approach, the primary aim of this article is to explore the semantic, conceptual, and contextual frames through which the two selected authors are represented in news coverage published by Hürriyet and Cumhuriyet, two major newspapers that represent the Turkish print media landscape. Employing a qualitative research design, the study adopts a framing analysis methodology. Findings reveal that Turkish-origin German authors are predominantly portrayed in the Turkish media through frames that emphasize their identity-related characteristics, literary genres, cultural engagements, and recognition and consecration as award-winning writers.
Keywords : Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Feridun Zaimoglu, Hurriyet, Cumhuriyet, çerçeveleme

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