Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Society&Natural Resources, sa.-, ss.1-24, 2025 (SSCI)
This study analyzes how national newspapers in Türkiye reflect devel-opments in forest issues to society. This analysis divides newspapersinto two main groups: pro-government and opposition newspapers.The study focused on forest-related news in six national newspapersfrom 2019 and 2020. Thus, 573 news articles, columns, and interviewswere analyzed. According to the results obtained, pro-governmentand opposition newspapers differ from each other in aspects, fromtopic selection to news content creation. Opposition newspapers tendto report on issues that focus on deforestation and forest degrada-tion, such as the use of forests for non-forestry purposes, removalfrom the forest regime, and forest fires. However, pro-governmentnewspapers report news that attempt to push such issues, whichpose serious problems for the country’s forests, off the public agenda.This attitude of the pro-government newspapers is unfavorable to theculture of democracy in the country and undermines the rationalityof forest policies and practices.