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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2023.21.14.006

ON THE ISSUE OF AZERBAIJANI-TURKISH INFORMATION COOPERATION DURING THE SECOND KARABAKH WAR: SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2020 (BASED ON THE TURKISH PRINT MEDIA)

Tarkhanova, Zhanna D.
Kavkaz Forum. 2023. Issue 14.
Abstract:
Military-political conflicts are accompanied by information and propaganda
operations, in which the mass media and the media act as an instrument for
realizing the interests of governments. With the development of information
and digital technologies, social networks and media platforms are becoming
increasingly in demand. Ethno-territorial, interethnic, religious conflicts always
have a political basis, and public opinion is formed by governments through
controlled mass media and mass media. In such situations, the media become
the main tool for influencing the consciousness of citizens, they often begin to
act as a means of manipulation, their role and influence on the development of
the conflict increases and intensifies many times. At the same time, the role of the
media is contradictory: contributes to both the localization of the conflict and its
escalation. The object of this study is the text arrays of the national newspapers
of Turkey; the subject of the study is the information content of the text arrays of
newspapers. In particular, a content analysis of Turkish media publications was
carried out. The media activity of Azerbaijan and Armenia during the acute phase
of the conflicts was due to the dominance of the official information strategies of
the parties to the conflict. At the same time, there was an entry into the information
wars of the parties and other actors. Against the background of Turkey’s increasing
geopolitical influence, Ankara is increasing its expansion in the information
sphere, has become a full-fledged participant in the information war on the side
of Azerbaijan during the second Karabakh War in 2020. The emergence of a new
player in the Armenian-Azerbaijani information and propaganda confrontation
has changed the information landscape of the South Caucasus. The Turkish media
factor has become an effective mechanism for promoting Ankara’s «soft power».
The symbiosis with the Azerbaijani media has turned Turkey’s mass media into a
hegemon in the South Caucasus, capable of subordinating the information space
of the region to the requirements of the concept of «one nation, two states». Given
the continuing conflict potential in the region, the influence of the media on the
evolution of ethno-political conflicts will increase, especially from the mass media
of NATO member countries. Therefore, the study of the activities of regional and
Western media to cover ethnopolitical conflicts in the South Caucasus seems to be
an urgent scientific problem. The object of the study is the text arrays of national
newspapers in Turkey; the subject is the information content of text arrays of
newspapers. The article uses the method of content analysis.
Keywords: information war, mass media, the second Karabakh war, Azerbaijan, Turkey.
For citation: Tarkhanova, Zh. D. On the issue of Azerbaijani-Turkish information
cooperation during the Second Karabakh War: September – November 2020
(based on the Turkish print media). KAVKAZ-FORUM. 2023, iss. 14 (21),
pp. 117-127. (In Russian). DOI 10.46698/VNC.2023.21.14.006
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