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      Ufuk : how the US information agency molded Turkish elite opinion, 1960-1980

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      Feyzullahoğlu, Burcu
      Advisor
      Weisbrode, Kenneth
      Date
      2014
      Publisher
      Bilkent University
      Language
      English
      Type
      Thesis
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      Abstract
      This study argues that the United States Information Agency carried out an intense public diplomacy program in Turkey between 1960 and 1980 in order to ameliorate the U.S. image among the Turkish urban elite, especially among the members of the Republican People’s Party and thus to prevent Turkey from having closer relations with the USSR. For this purpose, the study contains a close reading of the USIA propaganda material targeting this small but influential group, namely Ufuk Magazine and uncovers the image that the USIA aimed to create in order “to win hearts and minds” of the RPP members, members of Turkish Foreign Ministry of the time, academics and journalists in a period of Cold War where the peripheries rather than Europe became the target of the U.S. public diplomacy efforts.
      Keywords
      USIA
      United States of America
      Turkey
      1960s
      1970s
      Republican People’s Party
      USSR
      Cold War
      Public Diplomacy
      Propaganda
      Ufuk Magazine
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/18329
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