Analysis of Marriage of Underage Girls Problem in Turkey : and Its Representation on Print and Social Media

Children are the most important value and future of a society. However, today, one of the important social problems in Turkey as well as in the World is marriage of underage girls problem. The aim of this study is firstly to look critically at the marriages of underage girls problem in Turkey to find out its reasons and results and reveal the experiences of women who married before the age of 18. Secondly, it is aimed to analyze related news in Turkish print media and across Twitter posts and to find out how Turkish media reflects this problem and if these news reports and Twitter posts' discourses correspond to the discourses of the women in question. This study, which is based on feminist framework theoretically, consists of five main chapters. In this study, the relation between the ways that underage married women identified themselves and media discourses are investigated. In this regard, with this study, it is hoped to make contribution to the solution of the problem.