Table : Story/Item types in the Turkish Cypriot press on the Cyprus conflict, Greece, or Greek Cypriots. 4.2.12 Story Topics in the Turkish Cypriot Press One of the minor hypotheses of this study is that the Cypriot media prefer to publish negative stories on topics such as crime, rape, and drug use rather than other positive stories from the other side. This hypothesis is partly supported. News from the other side on the police, courts, accidents and disasters could be counted as stories in the negative category. The percentage of all this news is 8.5%. The significant result is that the Cyprus conflict (47.5%) and Turkey (36.5%) related story topics are high. Another significant result is that most of the Turkish Cypriot newspapers publish 36.5% of stories on Turkey. Table 24 shows that there is a general tendency in the Greek Cypriot press to pinpoint Turkey as the basic cause of the Cyprus Conflict; Turkish Cypriot authorities thus publish press releases about Turkey in order to respond to the claims published in the Greek Cypriot press. Social and cultural activity related story topics are low in number (4.7%); Turkish Cypriot editors are not interested in events related to socio-cultural activities. Table : Story topics in the Turkish Cypriot press on the Cyprus conflict, Greece, or Greek Cypriots.
Table : Story/Item types in the Turkish Cypriot press on the Cyprus conflict, Greece, or Greek Cypriots. 4.2.12 Story Topics in the Turkish Cypriot Press One of the minor hypotheses of this study is that the Cypriot media prefer to publish negative stories on topics such as crime, rape, and drug use rather than other positive stories from the other side. This hypothesis is partly supported. News from the other side on the police, courts, accidents and disasters could be counted as stories in the negative category. The percentage of all this news is 8.5%. The significant result is that the Cyprus conflict (47.5%) and Turkey (36.5%) related story topics are high. Another significant result is that most of the Turkish Cypriot newspapers publish 36.5% of stories on Turkey. Table 24 shows that there is a general tendency in the Greek Cypriot press to pinpoint Turkey as the basic cause of the Cyprus Conflict; Turkish Cypriot authorities thus publish press releases about Turkey in order to respond to the claims published in the Greek Cypriot press. Social and cultural activity related story topics are low in number (4.7%); Turkish Cypriot editors are not interested in events related to socio-cultural activities. Table : Story topics in the Turkish Cypriot press on the Cyprus conflict, Greece, or Greek Cypriots.
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