Alemdar, KorkmazBulut, Selda2022-04-292022-04-292007http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/79855Thesis study titled as `Hürriyet : Publication Politics of the period of 1948- 1953?, is concerned with the publication politics of Hürriyet during the period from1948 to the year of Sedat Simavi?s, the founder and owner, death and the reasons and conditions through which the newspaper had been published. This study is a press history and consists of four main chapters. In the first chapter, Cold War Period after 1945 and the general features of political and economical structure of Turkey and journalism life of Sedat Simavi are highlighted. In the second chapter, the founding arrangements of (physical and technical structure) Hürriyet and characteristical features of its formal structure are stated. The last two chapters of the thesis are about how Hürriyet evaluated some important facts and events of the domestic policy during the period between 1948 and 1953. In the third chapter, the approach of Hürriyet to the liberation politics on both political and economical fields is examined. In the fourth chapter, the viewpoint of Hürriyet on the major developments related with Islamism, Nationalism and Communism is analyzed. In the thesis, an answer is searched to the question of `the reason of publication of a newspaper? through the professional life of its founder, as well as, understanding of journalism that is directly or indirectly determined by the political, economical and cultural structure of the period. According to this point of view, very essence of Turkey?s unique dynamics of political structure after 1945 was formed by its standing point in international arena. Hürriyet, which was published at this period, followed a publication politics that was not against the dominant politics. Especially, it had a contrary position against the CHP government and the statism politics of CHP, and even though it supported Demokrat Parti, it had also countered to Demokrat Parti.trHürrriyet gazetesiJournalismyayın politikasıHürrriyet gazetesi: 1948-1953 döneminin yayın politikasıHürriyet: publication politics of the period of 1948-1953doctoralThesis