FRAMING THE DEBATES REGARDING TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS IN THE TURKISH PRESS

In recent years, genetically modified organisms (gmo) have become an important discussion subject in turkey. a clashing of ideas were seen between the government, the opposition, civil society organizations and the agricultural sector in these discussions, and gmo has been framed in different ways in the media according to the differences between the perspectives of the related parties. accordingly, the basic purpose of the study is to reveal in which frames the discussions regarding genetically modified organisms were represented in the printed press. as a result of the survey of the archives in the internet sites of the newspapers sabah, hürriyet, zaman and cumhuriyet, who have different perspectives, a total of 368 news items directly related to the issue were found and these 368 items were first analyzed in terms of quantity in order to construct the base for the framing analysis. and later, pursuant to the purposes of the study, the news frames, established by setting off from existing studies, were analyzed in more depth. as a result, it is revealed that control, risk and policy conflict frames were used in the majority of the news items in regards to gmos.