Abstract
In this article, some of the assumptions commonly put forward in media research about wildfires and disasters will be examined by
 exploring how the 2021 fires in Turkey were framed in newspapers with differing editorial and political views. Within the scope of this
 reporting, the discussion will centre on how these reports of fires, omitted any mention of climate change and its impact on these disasters.
 Media organizations evaluate disasters through the lens of their geographical and national positions as well as power relations, without
 associating them with global events such as climate change. The media in Turkey covered the fires within the framework of their current
 political and social conflicts. This situation has seen newspapers deliver news focused on extinguishing fires, post-disaster response
 discussions and 'last minute' developments, instead of offering solutions on climate change and the implementation of mitigation or
 adaptation policies. In this research, through the use of frame analysis method, the approaches and the actors that newspapers represented
 while covering wildfires are analyzed. In the next phase, news frames are studied whether they are oriented to reveal the causes of the
 wildfires (diagnostic) or to propose solutions (prognostic) regarding firefighting or climate adaptation policies. The publication which
 provides most solutions, referred to solutions in 14,2% of all its news. Regardless of their political views all newspapers in the sample
 generally proposed solutions regarding the recovery process rather than proactive or preventative climate adaptation policies.
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