Framing the public opinion on military conflict

• Main Author: Cicek, Edvin
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Försvarshögskolan 2021
• Subjects: framing; konflikt; politisk elit; Twitter; militära organisationer; Political Science; Statsvetenskap; General Language Studies and Linguistics; Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik; Media and Communications; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-10140

In many cases, an effective method used by political elites to influence public opinion is throughframing strategies. The use of frames by political elites has the power to change the opinion of agreat mass of people. On October 9, 2019, Turkey launched the military operation Peace Spring.Despite being criticized internationally, the Turkish president managed through framing of theoperation, gaining public approval in its domestic sphere. The purpose of this article is to analysehow president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan frames Operation Peace Spring through Twitter as primarysource. The results show that Erdoğan uses a complex framing that contains several recurringsegments that build on each other and enhances the overall effect.