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    How to Conceptualize a Culture of Support Through Language Plus Presented at the Right Time to the Right Audience
    (Usc Annenberg Press, 2018) Tekinalp, Sermin
    This study examines how Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has conceptualized a culture of support and authority, deploying language plus in the cultural domains of his pious and nationalistic audience, and inculcated an indisputable moral obligation to support him. The article puts forward a claim that, despite the unstable political and social situation in Turkey, Erdogan has created a commonsense consensus to build an image of a powerful leader. He received indispensable moral support from the electorate and increased his votes by 10% in the months around the November 2015 parliamentary election. The sociocognitive aspect of Erdogan's contextually recurrent public speeches is examined by critical discourse analysis against the backdrop of crises in the country.
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    Rationalization of contradictory cognitive dichotomies versus democracy demands: Istanbul Gezi Park protests
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2016) Tekinalp, Sermin
    The stanbul Gezi Park protest (June 2013) was the first multicultural and humorous youth uprising in Turkish history. The protests were begun by a group of environmentalists to protest the uprooting of the Istanbul Taksim Gezi Park trees for the reconstruction of Artillery Barracks. However, these protests turned into a large, leaderless forum that used slogans, humorous graffiti, and music to express suppressed feelings and thoughts regarding human rights and to criticize Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's restrictive and uncompromising acts and his disproportionate use of police force. This article provides an identity profile of the protesting youth based on their humorous messages during the protests. However, it primarily concentrates on how Erdogan rationalizes authority and power through contradictory mental cognitions by referring to mythical dichotomies regarding the protesters, himself, and his supporters and, further, how he configures a specific concept of democracy. The research was based on contextual analysis utilizing critical discourse analysis tools. The research derives conclusions regarding the identity of the protesting youth and the type of identity that Erdogan is seeking to enact for the protesters, himself, his supporters, and the country. This article's contribution lies in its elucidation of the main characteristics of a unique Turkish protest movement, the rhetorical divide between the protesters and the Prime Minister during the protests, and, particularly, how Prime Minister Erdogan rationalized the contradictory cognitive dichotomies to maintain his power, thwart the democratic demands of the protesters, and manipulate his supporters.
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    Rhetorical Activism in Politics: Stability Discourse and Pragmatic Practicality in Times of Crisis
    (Istanbul Univ, Fac Communication, 2019) Tekinalp, Sermin; Kestel, Seyra
    This article aims to investigate how successfully the dichotomy between stability and crisis is used as a medium of effective political activism and power in a critical election. The main question of the article is how the parties took advantage of the political climate in their political rhetoric to activate the mental cognitions of the majority at a time when Turkey was struggling with internal and external problems. In the framework of the research question, it is analyzed whether the parties, which were represented in the Turkish Parliament, utilized the dichotomy between stability and crisis in the context of pragmatic practicality or were lost obsessively in the normative, theoretically inductive long term ideals such as democracy, human rights and gender equality. In this context the term 'rhetorical activism' is associated to the term 'pragmatic practicality'. The principal objective of the article is to help increase consciousness of how the political rhetoric of the ruling party AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi/Justice and Development Party) comprising the catchword stability contributed to the domination of the mental cognitions of the electorates, and so increased its votes by 10% in five months in November 1, 2015 elections.
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    Value Priority and Humor as a Defense to Cultural Schism: Analysis of the Istanbul Gezi Park Protest
    (Usc Annenberg Press, 2016) Tekinalp, Sermin
    The Istanbul Gezi Park protest started as an environmentalist action at Taksim against the uprooting of the park's trees for the replacement of the military barracks that were demolished in 1940, and it turned into an uprising against the government after a police attack. This article turns the spotlight on a unique protest in the context of the protestors' value priority preferences and the humor they used as a defense to cultural schism. It investigates the protestors' cognitive mental frames, cultural and ideological positions, their demands for self-actualization and more freedom, and the changing methods of protest against the authority within the context of value change hypothesis and humor theories.