A Semantic Propaganda Analysis of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Political Speeches

This study aims at identifying the types of semantic propaganda and investigating the techniques of propaganda tools used by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his three political speeches related to humanity issues; The speech about Israel’s attack on Aid Flotilla in 2010, The speech on OIC’s meeting discussed about Jerusalem in 2017, and The speech on UN General Assembly – World Leaders Gather in New York For Annual Meeting in 2018. The types of semantic propaganda data were analyzed by using Hall’s theory and the techniques of propaganda data were analyzed by using Filene’s theory. The findings of this study showed that; (1) there were 54 of semantic propaganda which were classified into 8 types of semantic propaganda applied in Erdoğan’s political speeches.