Greek Media In The Eyes of The Turkish Media

Turkey and Greece are two neighbor countries that
have used to perceive each other as historical and
national enemies. Greek Turkish relations have
always appeared as a unique agenda in both states
foreign policies while the relations have had a
determining influence on the Turkish and Greek
communities perceptions of each other.
This work aims to find out how the Greek media was
reflected in the Turkish media during times of
political crisis and rapprochement beginning from
1950s. By conducting a research in the archives of
Turkish daily Hürriyet, which may be assumed to be a
typical representative of Turkish media, the work
tries to clarify whether Greek media s
representation by the Turkish media was ever
affected by the tone of bilateral state relations
between Turkey and Greece. Moreover, the work
attempts to reveal how Hürriyet and the Greek media
in general have positioned themselves in Turkish-
Greek relations. Thus, the work also questions the
strength of the Turkish and Greek media in mutual
inter-state relations and the level of their ties
with their respective governments and states.