Türkiye's Propaganda Approach to Energy and the Consequences of Dependence on Foreign Resources

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10.22126/mps.2025.11561.1050

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Examining Turkey's propaganda approach to energy supply is a topic that can be useful for understanding the Ankara government's propaganda approach to the concept of national power. Turkey is one of the countries that lacks fossil energy resources and is forced to spend large sums of money on energy imports every year and remains in difficulty due to its dependence on foreign sources. However, between 2002 and 2024, this country has tried to demonstrate an active form of energy policymaking in areas such as oil and gas transit, embarking on the path to nuclear power, diversifying the production and consumption of renewable energy, and exploring oil and gas in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean to get out of the current difficult situation. With the aim of identifying Turkey's media approach to energy supply, the researchers have raised the question of how the Turkish government has used media tools in achieving energy policy goals and describing it as a national power, using a descriptive-analytical method and by studying written library and online works. The answer given as a hypothesis to this question is that the Turkish government has tried in recent years to exploit the media's persuasive and promotional capacity to cover up its challenges and risks in the energy sector and to actualize transit opportunities for domestic and foreign audiences, to cover up some of its weaknesses and inabilities, and to present relative successes as national pride and prestige. Türkiye's exaggerated advertising and media approach to energy supply and transmission is seen as a strategy to cover up the consequences and weaknesses of dependence.

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  • Receive Date: 30 December 2024
  • Revise Date: 22 February 2025
  • Accept Date: 02 March 2025

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