Minority-Language Broadcasting, Kin-state Media and Transnational Polarization: Turks in North Macedonia between Skopje and Ankara

Abdullah Sencer Gözübenli

Minority-Language Broadcasting, Kin-state Media and Transnational Polarization: Turks in North Macedonia between Skopje and Ankara

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Abstract

This chapter examines the interplay between public service broadcasting, kin-state influence and minority rights in North Macedonia, focusing on Turkish community, the third-largest ethnic community in the country. Turkey under President Erdoğan, one of the leading external actors in the Balkans, uses its media apparatus to shape narratives, especially within kin-minority communities in its near abroad, contributing to transnational polarization. The chapter aims to analyse the impact of the Macedonian public broadcaster MRT’s nearly 80-year-old Turkish service and Turkey-based Turkish broadcasting on the public sphere of the Turkish community of North Macedonia and highlights the role of the minority language in shaping social and political discourse. It also examines the latest media reforms in North Macedonia on ethnic community languages and evaluates public perception of Turkish community in the country. Moreover, it explores the nuanced dimensions of decolonization of kin-minorities within the context of media policies, underlining the intersectionality of identity, politics, and media in the Balkans.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Minority Language Media: Current Challenges in a Fragmented Mediascape
Editors	Miren Manias Muñoz, Sergiusz Bober, Craig Willis
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-71228-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-71227-2, 978-3-031-71230-2
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 16 Jan 2025
MoE publication type	A3 Part of a book or another research book
Event	International conference: Multi-platform and Connecting Communities: Contemporary Challenges for Minority Language Media - Europa-Universität Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany Duration: 31 Mar 2022 → 1 Apr 2022 https://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/redakteure/publications/2022/MLM_Conference_Programme_Flensburg_31.03_01.04.pdf

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
ISSN (Print)	2947-5880
ISSN (Electronic)	2947-5899

Conference

Conference	International conference: Multi-platform and Connecting Communities: Contemporary Challenges for Minority Language Media
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Flensburg
Period	31/03/22 → 01/04/22
Internet address	https://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/redakteure/publications/2022/MLM_Conference_Programme_Flensburg_31.03_01.04.pdf

Keywords

North Macedonia
Turkey
Minority-language broadcasting
Kin-state media
Political Polarization

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Gözübenli, A. S. (Accepted/In press). Minority-Language Broadcasting, Kin-state Media and Transnational Polarization: Turks in North Macedonia between Skopje and Ankara. In M. M. Muñoz, S. Bober, & C. Willis (Eds.), Minority Language Media: Current Challenges in a Fragmented Mediascape (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities ). Palgrave Macmillan.

Gözübenli, Abdullah Sencer. / Minority-Language Broadcasting, Kin-state Media and Transnational Polarization: Turks in North Macedonia between Skopje and Ankara. Minority Language Media: Current Challenges in a Fragmented Mediascape. editor / Miren Manias Muñoz ; Sergiusz Bober ; Craig Willis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities ).

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Gözübenli, AS 2025, Minority-Language Broadcasting, Kin-state Media and Transnational Polarization: Turks in North Macedonia between Skopje and Ankara. in MM Muñoz, S Bober & C Willis (eds), Minority Language Media: Current Challenges in a Fragmented Mediascape. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities , Palgrave Macmillan, International conference: Multi-platform and Connecting Communities: Contemporary Challenges for Minority Language Media, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 31/03/22.

Minority-Language Broadcasting, Kin-state Media and Transnational Polarization: Turks in North Macedonia between Skopje and Ankara. / Gözübenli, Abdullah Sencer.
Minority Language Media: Current Challenges in a Fragmented Mediascape. ed. / Miren Manias Muñoz; Sergiusz Bober; Craig Willis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities ).

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