Abstract (eng)
The Turkish-Kurdish peace process, which began in 2007 with the secret talks between the Turkish intelligence, the AKP government and the PKK in Oslo, aimed to resolve the Kurdish issue by peaceful means. In the preceding work, an attemps is made to open up the respective discursive frameworks and endcodings of this peace process in the Turkish print media on the basis of an analytical model of Critical Discourse Analysis according to the Dutch linguist Teun A. van Dijk and to discuss them in a broader context. For the analysis, the newspapaers BirGün, Hürriyet, Günlük/Özgür Gündem, Sabah and Sözcü are chosen, which have different ideological orientations. The focus is on three events resp. the next day’s coverages, which were selelcted for their great importance as breaking points and progress in the peace process: the so-called “Habur event” in 2009, the Newroz Festival of Diyarbakır in 2013 and the announcement of the 10 point agreement between government representatives and a HDP delegation in the Dolmabahçe-Palace in 2015. On the one hand, the analysis shows the eminent importance of the locating practice of the major newspapers in the Kemalist state discourse concerning the Kurdish question, on the other hand, a discursive transformation is emerging in some cases, which, however, always carries a risk of “relapse”. Thus, the newspapers hardly succeed in generating significant progress in the creation of a “peace discourse”. Terms such as ethnocentrism, security, identity, integrity and territoriality serve as pradigms in the indexing and interpretation of newspaper texts.