Who is behind the Plandemic? Analysing the different ideological conspiracy theory endorsements on Turkish Twitter

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dc.contributor.authorÇalışkan, Cem
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-31T15:04:22Z
dc.date.available2026-01-31T15:04:22Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentİstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe Plandemic conspiracy theory, which advances that the Covid-19 pandemic was an orchestrated event, was propagated via digital platforms across various countries throughout the pandemic, including Turkey. In this article, I analyze the conspiratorial tweets about the Plandemic on Turkish Twitter through CDA to show dispositions of different ideologies to conspiracy theories in Turkey. Findings show that the users combine the conspiracy theories that originated in the West with those that originated in Turkey to fortify the conspiratorial narrative concerning the Plandemic. I also detect the ideologies of tweets and users by elaborating their lexica and discourses, and I categorize them as conservative/Islamist and oppositional. The analysis shows that the Islamist/conservative community is likelier to employ the general characteristic of conspiracy in their discourse, meaning that they utilize a more mythic discourse based on unquestionable, godly storytelling. Nonetheless, the secular/opposition community also promotes the Plandemic conspiracy to cursorily criticize social injustice. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14683857.2022.2137900
dc.identifier.endpage226
dc.identifier.issn1468-3857
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85141017779
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage207
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2022.2137900
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/10517
dc.identifier.volume24
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofSoutheast European and Black Sea Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_Scopus_20260128
dc.subjectconspiracy theories
dc.subjectpandemic
dc.subjectpolitical communication
dc.subjectTurkey
dc.subjectTwitter
dc.titleWho is behind the Plandemic? Analysing the different ideological conspiracy theory endorsements on Turkish Twitter
dc.typeArticle

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