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Publication details [#67108]

Yesil, Bilge. 2019. #TurkeyIsNotAChicken. How Pro-government Netizens Explain the Coup Attempt to Western Audiences. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 12 (2) : 166–184.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Brill

Annotation

This paper assays pro-AKP actors’ grassroots communications in the immediate aftermath of the failed 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. Through a discourse analysis of English-language Twitter posts, it argues that the engagement of non-state actors on behalf of the AKP government was not simply informed by nationalist mobilization, but rather by an Occidentalist exigency to invert the hegemonic western discourse about Turkey and Turks.