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This book is based on a dissertation research project and thesis writing that lasted from 2004 to 2009. It is an ethnographic attempt to understand Turkey s European Union negotiations process from they eyes of senior Turkish journalists. Justice and Development Party (AKP) is still in power. Its power base is stronger, and it defeated major traditional elites, including those who oppose it in the journalistic field and in the mean time, the party changed its orientation towards Middle East. The whole media ownership structure has also changed since this research was completed. What did not change is the role of Turkish journalism as political actors and their journalistic patterns. Mainstream Turkish journalism does have a new orientation but its journalistic discourses continue to be determined within the emerging political assemblage as it used to have happened...

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Erkan Saka (PhD, Anthropology, Rice University) is a lecturer on new media cultures at the Communication School, stanbul Bilgi University. He is a political blogger (erkansaka.net), a coordinator of a local TV Show, SosyalKafa, and an organizer of citizen journalism seminars.

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