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Rights-based Approach to Journalism in Turkey



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Meltem Bostanci

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DOI:10.17265/2160-6579/2017.05.002

Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Rights-based approach to journalism aims to enable media to pursue the violations of rights by reporting them as news and, in this way, to preserve and ameliorate the rights as well as to contribute democratization. Rights-based approach to journalism in Turkey is a pretty new field of study for the researchers who study media. The examples of rights-based journalism appeared further especially in European Union membership process. Thus, the news that are sensitive to rights have found a broader place in media. In the process of E.U. membership, Turkey was required to carry out some regulations that target the betterment of human rights, women’s rights, children’s rights and minority rights. Making news from a rights-based perspective is an action for the announcement of people’s struggle for their rights to the public with the aim of preventing the violations of rights. 

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