Following the civil war in Syria in 2011, migration from Syria in massive numbers has caused various political, demographic, societal, and cultural challenges in Turkey. The focus of this research is on how the issue of naturalization of Syrians as Turkish citizens has been presented in Turkish newspapers and to what extent the dominant perspective on the issue has shifted over time. For our computational textual analysis of Turkish newspaper materials published between 2012 and 2019, we compiled a corpus consisting of 15,276 news items from four newspapers featuring the co-occurrence of the words “Syria*” (Suriye*) and “citizen*” (vatandaş*) in the main body of their text. The newspapers include mainstream and pro-government (Milliyet with liberal tendencies, Sabah with center-right tendencies), and left-wing (Sol, Evrensel) perspectives. A two-step textual analysis was conducted on the corpus. First, dictionary-based topic modeling was used to chart which broader topics Turkish citizenship of Syrians is predominantly linked to the data, and how the predominance of topics shifted over time. Second, a collocation analysis of the word “refugee” (mülteci) yields a more fine-grained picture of the specific words and expressions that tend to appear often when Syrian refugees are discussed. In both steps, an aggregated general analysis was complemented with separate newspaper-specific analyses, thus allowing for the comparison of different newspapers. Findings show that Syrians in Turkey predominantly feature in the context of diplomatic and societal topics. While mainstream news sources approach the issue less critically, left-wing newspapers show more sensitivity to migrant rights in Turkey.

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土耳其的叙利亚人及其入籍土耳其公民：报纸数据的计算文本分析

2011年叙利亚内战后，来自叙利亚的大量移民给土耳其带来了各种政治、人口、社会和文化挑战。这项研究的重点是土耳其报纸如何报道叙利亚人入籍土耳其公民的问题，以及随着时间的推移，对该问题的主导观点发生了多大程度的变化。为了对 2012 年至 2019 年间出版的土耳其报纸材料进行计算文本分析，我们编制了一个语料库，其中包含来自四家报纸的 15,276 条新闻条目，其中包含单词“叙利亚*”(Suriye*) 和“公民*”(vatandaş) 的同时出现。 *）在其文本正文中。这些报纸包括主流和亲政府（自由主义倾向的民调，中右倾向的沙巴）和左翼（Sol，Evrensel）的观点。对语料库进行了两步文本分析。首先，使用基于字典的主题建模来绘制叙利亚人的土耳其公民身份主要与数据相关的更广泛主题，以及主题的主导地位如何随着时间的推移而变化。其次，对“难民”（mülteci）一词的搭配分析可以更详细地描述讨论叙利亚难民时经常出现的特定词语和表达方式。在这两个步骤中，汇总的一般分析辅以单独的报纸特定分析，从而可以对不同报纸进行比较。调查结果显示，在土耳其的叙利亚人主要出现在外交和社会话题中。虽然主流新闻来源对这个问题的态度不那么挑剔，但左翼报纸对土耳其的移民权利表现出更加敏感。