Democracy in Turkey Press Freedom and Corruption

Autori:

Turgul TOMGUSEHAN, Gokce KECECI

Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 254-267

How to cite this article:

Tomgusehan, T., Kececi, G. (2018). Democracy in Turkey Press Freedom and Corruption. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 63, 254-267.

Abstract:

The measurement of democracy and its empiric work is at the beginning of the issues discussed for many years. The democracy index created by the Economist Intelligence Unit group of the Economist magazine, which has long been recognized as a democracy index and a measure of democracy, is the only index that measures the democracy levels of countries with many subcomponents and is recognized by the United Nations. The main aim of this study is to compare the current index with democracy, freedom of the press, and public opinion collected primary data in order to measure whether corruption is consistent with the index in question. At the same time press freedom and the democracy movement in a country like Turkey have moved towards a single man leadership. Turkey claims to be a member of the European Union but it reveals it has bigger problems. Primary data obtained from the aspects of index variable indicates that a parallel way of press freedom in Turkey and the country have moved towards a totalitarian regime by ignoring democracy.