Migrant Media: Turkish Broadcasting and Multicultural Politics in Berlin by Kira Kosnick

Author:Kira Kosnick [Kosnick, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History & Theory, Media Studies, Social Science, Political Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, General
ISBN: 9780253027795
Google: YhiwDQAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 33312437
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

Media and the New Forms of Cultural Struggle in Turkey

The MED-TV station had a great impact on Turkey’s cultural politics. Turkish state forces eventually came to realize that they could not stop the production of Kurdish-nationalist television abroad, and neither could they effectively prohibit and control the reception of such programs via satellite dishes in Turkey.16 As a result, the Turkish state began to change its stance on the public use of Kurdish languages, formerly strictly prohibited in all public contexts including schools and the media.

In the context of the debate on how to gain membership in the EU—which had encouraged Turkey to grant cultural rights to Kurds—the government began to discuss radical policy changes. On November 15, 2000, the Turkish Daily News quoted then deputy prime minister Mesut Yılmaz of the center-right Motherland Party (ANAP) as saying that the unity and integrity of Turkey had to be preserved, but that

the real threat to the unity of the nation is the broadcast brainwashing of millions of our citizens by separatist organizations. Unfortunately, we cannot prevent this by imposing fines and bans because of advances in technology. The state should use its head and see that we have no other way of preserving our values.17

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