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Publication details [#53726]
Ergül, Hakan. 2010. From the wrath of Allah to divine judgment: natural disasters in the Islamist press in Turkey. Journal of multicultural discourses 5 (1) : 1–20.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This study explores what discursive strategies were deployed by the Turkish Islamist press in meaning (re)construction of natural disasters in Turkey, including two massive earthquakes (in 1976 and 1999) and a drought (in 2007). They all used a religious reference frame and one important discursive strategy function was to conceal political mismanagement.