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Article Critical Discourse Analysis of News Texts: A Case Study on undefinedthe Operation Shah Euphratesundefined(2016) Soy, Özlem Şahin; Durmuş, SerapT oday's communication technologies have maximised the communication speed. This huge development in communication in the international arena also paved the way for the emergence of a great amount of translation need and market. Media has been among the institutions which needs the translation the most. As it is the translation of news texts for media, such institutions followed a functionoriented approach to translations. That is to say, while translating a news text into any other language, the news translator or the journalist needs to keep the purpose of the source-text, which is to create an intended effect on source-language readers, in the target-text: to create an intended effect on the target language reader. This intended effect of news texts has attracted the attention of discourse analysis. Thus, critical discourse analysis methods have been developed in order to explicate the ideological elements imbedded in news texts. In other words, Critical Discourse Analysis is a research method, which searches for how social phenomena such as power relations, moral values, ideologies and identity definitions are reflected on individuals and social orders through linguistic structures. The determination of how and to what extent these power relations, moral values, ideologies and social phenomena take place in news texts is the purpose of this study. To this end, Teun A. van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis model is taken as the basis for this study as it allows a detailed analysis of news texts. News texts on 'Operation Shah - Euphrates' dated 02.23.2015 in Turkish newspapers published in English have been selected as sample texts for the analysis. Although the newspapers published in English have been taken as the main analysis material, the original texts in newspapers published in Turkish have also been included to give an idea about the transfer of political language with its intended messages, which is explained simply as "the idea that the communicator wishes to convey to and have accepted by the receiver" (Koekemoer, 2004, p. 43). At the end of the analysis, it has been observed that the news texts of Hürriyet Daily News, Today's Zaman and Daily Sabah, whose 1. Critical Discourse Analysis of News Texts: A Case Study on the Ope-ration Shah Euphrates1.1. Political Text TypesWhat is determinative in translation is to convey the message of the source text to the target text reader, which makes translation a type of communication. As for the translation of political texts, what matters both on lexical and conceptual levels is the discourse selection to create the very same behavioural change in the target reader.
