Media Self-Regulation in Turkey: Challenges, Opportunities, Suggestions
What significant challenges do media organizations in Turkey face in setting up independent and effective self-regulation mechanisms? Why were models such as Press Councils and Ombudsmanship unsuccessful? The Media Self-Regulation book offers an up-to-date and detailed examination of the subject.
Authors: CEREN SÖZERİ, ASLI TUNÇ, R. MURAT ÖNOK, TUĞBA TEKEREK, SUNCEM KOÇER, DOĞAN AKIN, SARPHAN UZUNOĞLU19.12.2018
P24 published Media Self-Regulation in Turkey: Challenges, Opportunities, Suggestions as part of a program entitled “Building Trust in Media in South East Europe and Turkey,” encompassing seven countries, including Turkey. This specific book is the result of the “Promoting Media Self-Regulation in Turkey” project -implemented by P24 and financially supported by the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)- that sought to lead an in-depth research on the current state of self-regulation in the Turkish media and eventually offer a road-map for future efforts to strengthen self-regulation.
What significant challenges or obstacles do media organizations in Turkey face in setting up independent and effective self-regulation mechanisms? Why were models, such as Press Councils, Ombudsmanship, or associations that would equally represent media organizations regardless of their political leaning, unsuccessful? How may the Radio and Television Supreme Council’s regulation prerogative infringe on the media’s independence in practice? What steps can be taken to ensure self-regulation of content by internet media? Could self-regulation become a driver of self-censorship under political pressure? And perhaps the most crucial question: How realistic are expectations of setting up effective self-regulation mechanisms when ethical principles of journalism and editorial standards are not applied? Media Self-Regulation in Turkey: Challenges, Opportunities, Suggestions is a solution-oriented reference book addressing each of these questions.
The list of authors who have contributed to the book and the title of their articles is as follows:
> Ceren Sözeri: “Freedom and Ethics: Is One Possible Without the Other?”
> Aslı Tunç: “Pointing the Compass in the Right Direction: Examples of Self-Regulation from Around the World”
> R. Murat Önok: “Press Councils as Organ of Self-Regulation: Turkish Example in Light of Comparative Applications”
> Tuğba Tekerek: “In Turkey, the Office of Ombudsman Also Has Its Limits”
> Suncem Koçer: “Regulation and Self-Regulation in Television in Turkey”
> Doğan Akın: “Self-Regulation in Internet Media: Problems and Possibilities”
> Sarphan Uzunoğlu: “Between Self-Censorship and Self-Regulation: Journalism in a Gray but New Media”
Like all the books published under P24’s Media Library series, Media Self-Regulation in Turkey: Challenges, Opportunities, Suggestions is free of charge. You can click this link to download the English translation of the book and access its content.
First Edition: 2018