Coverage of the Turkish coup in 2016 in the site of Al Jazeera Net (For the period from 15-7-2016 to 15-8-2016)

Abstract

The basic problem in this paper is mainly embodied in the analysis of the news coverage of Al-Jazeera Net site for the coup in Turkey in 2016 via the daily analysis of the site. The importance of this research paper is implied in knowing the role that electronic sites do in explaining the daily cases and crises for the viewers. This paper presents a new academic study as long as no other preceded study on such topic had been made on Turkish coup in 2016 before. The aim of this study paper is to focus on the nature of the news coverage of the site via the subjects that the coverage has dealt with, the news sources and the press techniques used in. This paper relied on the descriptive perspective using content- analysis style. It aims at describing the phenomena as the essence of the study and , then, to control it digitally and the chosen site was Al-Jazeera Net as it belongs to the field of modern digital media. It is also considered one of the widely popular Arabic electronic sites . The sample in this paper deals particularly with (news, reports and dialogues) which reached (341) found in the site along to researching period from 15-7-2016 to 15-8-2016. The researcher used the content-analysis style depending on the statistics style (SPSS) and the repetitions and percentage ratios in data processing. The results in this paper showed the focus of "Al-Jazeera Net" on the political subject and its categories Where Al-Jazeera Net focuses on the subject of (the foreign interferences in Turkish affair). The news makes the biggest ratio of the subject of the press techniques in Al-Jazeera Net and reports and dialogues came to be in the second degree. This research paper concludes with some recommendations such as making studies on the coup in Turkey in 2016 which sorted out great developments on the political, social, secure and economic levels. It also created a diversity in news sources concerning the news relating to the coup in Turkey in 2016 on Al-Jazeera Net site and established a new style for the Arabic media in employing the information that helps it to convince the others who are deceived by some claims broadcasted by the Western media.