CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE ISTANBUL CONVENTION IN THE CONTEXT OF CONSERVATIVE AND FEMINIST IDEOLOGIES

The “Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence\rAgainst Women and Domestic Violence”, which was opened for signature in\r2011 by the Council of Europe, is publicly known as the “Istanbul Convention”, since it was opened for signature in Istanbul. Turkey is the country that\rput the first signature to the contract. The Convention entered into force in\r2014, especially in 2020, it came to the public's agenda with different ideological debates and was discussed a lot in July - August 2020. Conservative groups and has the opinion that the contract disrupt the moral structure of society by recognizing homosexuality and damage the institution of family, so\rthey wants to get out of the convention. On the otherhand, there are feminist\rgroups who think that the convention should be protected as the most comprehensive text that imposes heavy sanctions on violence against women and\rthat take women’s human rights as basis. The different theses of these segments have become one of the main agendas of the press in the current period. Based on this issue, the study evaluates the written media data of the\rconservative and feminist ideological discursive contexts specific to the contract, based on the critical discourse analysis technique of Teun A. Van Dijk. As\rthe sample in the study, Hürriyet as the mainstream media focus; Cumhuriyet, Duvar, T24 are used as opposition left-wing newspapers, and Yeni Şafak\rand Yeni Akit as conservative newspapers.