The Orientalist Discourse Language Used in The New York Times Newspaper After The September 11 Attacks

Language, which is the main communication tool between people, is a phenomenon that can turn into a political propaganda instrument that directs societies and affects the citizens of a country or the people of the world. In this context, this relationship between language and power can manifest itself clearly at various points in social and political life. Especially in the media world, according to various cases, it is seen that the language used has changed, while media organs meet certain events with the reader, they support different thinking structures and maintain an understanding of publishing that serves to adopt them. This directive style attitude can be observed in the news texts of the New York Times newspaper after 9/11 and the policy of America, which initiated a military intervention in Afghanistan on October 7 following the September 11 attacks, is legitimized not only through an act of terrorism, but also through Islam and orientalism, in accordance with some statements in this newspaper. In this study, firstly, the relationship between politics and language will be addressed, and then the forms of orientalist discourse and its equivalent in the New York Times on the axis of the analyzed news will be discussed.