Baybars, Banu

Profile Picture
Name Variants
B. Baybars
Banu Baybars
B., Banu
BANU BAYBARS
Baybars, BANU
Banu, Baybars
BAYBARS, Banu
Banu BAYBARS
B.,Banu
Baybars,B.
Baybars,Banu
Baybars, Banu
Baybars, B.
BAYBARS, BANU
Job Title
Prof. Dr.
Email Address
banubhawks@khas.edu.tr
ORCID ID
0000-0002-1239-580X
Scopus Author ID
57738273100
Turkish CoHE Profile ID
Google Scholar ID
WoS Researcher ID
Scholarly Output

2

Articles

2

Citation Count

7

Supervised Theses

0

Filters

2023 - 20242
Reset filters

Settings

Scholarly Output Search Results

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    Article
    Citation Count: 6
    Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Baybars, Banu; Baybars, Banu
    This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments' fear of media and Turkish media's fear of government authority with respect to the development of press freedom over the long run and closely analyzes the historical pressures imposed on journalists through legal and informal means. We focus particularly on the economic and political pressure on the media in Turkey and offer three arguments regarding the fear in Turkish media: (1) Media fear is historical rather than a rupture that happened during the Justice and Development Party era; (2) out of fear of losing power, the governments use structural, legislative and extra-legal factors to the advantage of the ruling party to support a friendly media-ecology; and (3) the repressed media attempt to come out of this ecology of fear by utilizing new tactics of reporting, such as alternative media and citizen journalism.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Article
    Citation Count: 1
    Media Systems and Media Capture in Turkey: A Case Study
    (Cogitatio Press, 2024) Baybars, Banu; Baybars,B.
    This article attempts to explain the current situation of the Turkish media system through the media systems approach as a case study with special attention to the concept of media capture. We propose that the Turkish media system’s shift is heavily influenced by media capture. We associate four of Hallin and Mancini’s media systems concepts related to the effects of media capture in the Turkish media system shift: rise of political parallelism, erosion of journalistic professionalism (ethics), controlling role of the state, and government-friendly ownership concentration. In explaining the shift from a pluralist polarised to captured media in Turkey, we acknowledge the potential for new, independent, and alternative media to emerge. The article also comments that the potential reason for this shift from a captured liberal to a captured media in Turkey is the climate of fear that has allowed successive governments in Turkey to attempt media capture. In general, this article attempts to provide insight into the current relationship between media and politics in Turkey. © 2024 by the author(s).