Futbol ve milliyetçilik: Türk Milli Takımı'nın katıldığı Dünya Kupaları'nın Hürriyet gazetesi üzerinden çözümlenmesi
Abstract
This master thesis analyzes the articulation of football and nationalism phenomena, and also the nationalist discourse in 1950, 1954 and 2002 World Cups which Turkey had qualified, by taking related news in Hürriyet as a reference. In the passing process, from the primitive ball games to today?s modern football, it has been assigned different meanings to football, beyond being a game. Football has associated with the phenomena of nationalism in the world, especially after the begining of international matches. Thus, football has become to be an object at the hands of political powers for nationalist purposes. In Turkey, the history of football has shown a parallelism with the formation of Turkish identity. In this thesis, during 1950, 1954 and 2002 World Cups Hurriyet?s nationalist discourse on the presentation of Turkish national football team news? is tried to be analysed and media?s undeniable role on producing nationalist discourses over football is emphasized.