Hollanda'da Türkçe Yerel Radyolar: Topluluk İletişimi mi, Etnik Pazar mı?

Abstract

Nowadays the problematic of representation of minorities or immigrant communities in media, and the problematic of expression of their common interests bymeans of media constitute a major discussion, which is held especially to emerge the opportunity of a more democratic media environment and to criticize traditional communication systems. At this point, we can say that community radios can be considered as one of the opportunities, which will help to realize this kind of communication. On the basis of the fact that the community radios have a common goal of representation, participation and mobilizing of different social actors and groups in a centralized communication space, they can also have the role of being the voice of people and groups in disadvantaged positions in society such as ethnic minorities or immigrants. For this reason, analyzing the community radio as having the potential to represent the common interests of Turkish immigrant community also gives us the opportunity to discuss the ways that Turkish immigrants use this possibility. Thus, as having the main goal of this paper is as the evaluation of the community radio system in Netherlands in order to discuss Turkish immigrants' response to this system in terms of their capacity to create a significant community and their own community radio(s) and in order to see Turkish local radios can work as medium of community communication or ethnic market; we achieved the conclusion that none of this process is truly constituted. Although there are some regulations, which make possible community communication in radio broadcasting system of Netherlands formed by its immigration and multiculturalism politics, because of some obstacles created by structural characteristics of Turkish ethnic community and by official immigration politics of Netherlands, the Turks do not have the demand of making a radio broadcasting in terms of community radio.