Pol-Der Newspaper as an Instrument of Organizational Conflict

Abstract

After the freedom of assosiciation given to all workers by the constitution of 1961 in Turkey, especially with the collapse of fordist system after 1975, it is known that assosiciated state officials as well as assosiciated workers had conflict with the people who govern them. This situation requires the answer of the questions, such as whether police staff who works under high discipline had any conflict with the people who govern them, if so, what kind of method they used and what happened at the end of that conflict. The aim of this research is to try to find out answers of those mentioned questions with the hypothesis that the police management and managers of pre-1980 did not have positive approach to police assosicitionism. Pol-Der newspaper was selected as an sample of this research. This is because managers and members of Pol-Der (Police Assossiciation), which was established in 1975, used Pol-Der newspaper as an instrument of conflict against people who govern them to cover their vocational interests. In the study, the aforementioned conflict will be stated through the analysis of the Pol-Der newspaper.