Does the Arab Spring serve as a critical juncture in treatment to the Kurdish Question in the mainstream media in the UK and France? The role of the emergence of ISIS.

Title
Does the Arab Spring serve as a critical juncture in treatment to the Kurdish Question in the mainstream media in the UK and France? The role of the emergence of ISIS.
Creator
Metin, Damla
Abstract
This research analyzes the role of the Arab Spring in media attention and treatment of the Kurdish Question and offers the significance of historical events in shifting approaches in Western media even for most ignored or marginalized cases such as the Kurdish Question. I specifically focused on right-wing (Daily Mail and Le Figaro) and left-wing (The Independent and Le Monde) online newspapers in the UK and France to determine the volume of news articles and shifts in narratives from Iraq's recognition of Autonomous Kurdistan in 2006 to the Arab Spring, and finally from the Arab Spring to the PKK insurgency in Turkey in 2015-16.
Keywords
Media narratives
Kurdish Question
Arab Spring
Subject
International Relations
Type
Oral Presentation
Course
IR3120A1 - RESEARCH METHODS IN IR
Instructor
Fokas, Effie
Location
Art Center Auditorium
Event
Year 2025 | 9th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium

Tags

International Relations

Tags

International Relations