Trolls, Pressure and Agenda: The discursive fight on Twitter in Turkey

Censorship, banning, and imprisonment are different methods used to suppress dissenting voices in traditional media have now evolved into a new form with bot troll accounts the digital age Turkey. Is it possible construct bloc counter-trolls against escalating political pressure on post-truth era? Are capable of setting agenda? This article discusses possibility constructing Turkey through context communicative rationality. First, observes ruling party’s politics strategy Twitter, then examines counter-discourses today; thereafter analyzes discourse hashtags agenda Boğaziçi University protests. Firstly, 18,000 tweets examined understand suppress-communication AK Party trolls. Secondly, agenda-setting capacity is observed between January 1, 2020, February 5, 2021, regarding protests analyze communication counter-trolls. The study shows that populist government instrumentalizes social media, Twitter does not enough potential for Gramscian counter-hegemony, but organized actions discourses create public opinion.