Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
İmgelem (Online), cilt.4, sa.7, ss.299-319, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
The aim of this article is to show case critical discourse analysis populism as a form of political communication research through a qualitative approach between different wings populist discourse in Turkey. First, the political discourse of the Leaders of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People's Party (CHP) will be discussed and examined through their parliamentary speeches after the Coup Attempt on 15th July 2016. In the second part, the approach that news media reproduces social reality and ideology through discourse and representation, and the reflection of the afore mentioned parliamentary speeches on news paper news were discussed. In this context, the news in Yeni Şafak and Cumhuriyet newspapers, which were selected as samples, were analyzed using discourse analysis method. These two methods that complement each other have revealed how parliamentary speeches and printed media are fictionalized in the relationship between language and representation, and how populism is positioned in the frame of the language of political communication in Turkey. The main finding of the study is that the political discourses of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and consequently the ruling party AKP and the political discourse of the leader of the main opposition party Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu after the coup attempt are populist aspects. Although both political actors are populists, their construct of populism in the irdiscourses is different from each other. Moreover, the newspapers discussed possess a bias that legitimizes the populist discourse of politicians.