This article presents how the rise of Justice and Development Party (AKP) to political power in Turkey transformed journalists’ professional practices as to lead to a decline in the plurality of opinions presented in the media. After AKP’s second electoral victory in 2007, political trials, property transfers, and dismissals wrapped in a discourse of punishment and purge of the “nation’s enemies” destabilized long established power hierarchies of secularists, religious-conservatives, Kurds, and leftists in Turkey. The destabilization was caused by the state’s changing attitude toward these identity groups, and in the media it lead to shifts in journalists’ status positions and emotions. Varying professional responses triggered by these shifts explain the convergence to a dominant singular political narrative in the media. This argument builds on narrative evidence collected between 2012 and 2014 via in-depth interviews, newspaper articles, and journalists’ memoires. With a from-below account, the article presents the effects of destabilized hierarchies on journalistic practice. In the example of media, it invites scholars to rethink contemporary democratic backsliding in terms of the links between state actors and non-state actors, on the one hand, and social actors’ power positions, political identities, and professional practices, on the other.

本文介绍了土耳其正义与发展党（AKP）的崛起如何影响了土耳其的政治实力，从而改变了记者的专业做法，从而导致媒体上发表的多种观点下降。在AKP在2007年第二次选举中获胜之后，政治审判，财产转让和解雇被包裹在惩罚和清洗“民族敌人”的论述中，破坏了土耳其世俗主义者，宗教保守派，库尔德人和左派的长期确立的权力等级制度。不稳定的原因是国家对这些身份群体的态度变化，在媒体中它导致记者的地位和情感发生变化。这些转变引发的各种专业回应，解释了媒体在主流单一政治叙事中的融合。该论点建立在2012年至2014年之间通过深度访谈，报纸文章和记者回忆录收集的叙事证据的基础上。从下文开始，本文介绍了不稳定的层次结构对新闻工作者实践的影响。以媒体为例，它邀请学者们一方面从国家行为者与非国家行为者之间的联系，另一方面从社会行为者的权力地位，政治身份和职业实践的角度，重新思考当代民主倒退的趋势。 。