Uğur Cevdet PanayırcıEmre IseriEser Şekercioğlu2025-10-06201602673231, 146037050267-32311460-370510.1177/0267323116669455https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84991280543&doi=10.1177%2F0267323116669455&partnerID=40&md5=c6550eddd6db31472b1902587f0a3156https://gcris.yasar.edu.tr/handle/123456789/9767This article aims to determine the stances of media outlets during crises in a polarized media system such as Turkey. Adopting a content analysis methodology this article analyses the framing strategies of three national newspapers affiliated with certain sociopolitical camps (namely the pro-government Sabah the anti-government Kemalist Sözcü and the pro-Gülen Zaman) to observe possible similarities/differences during the critical 17 December corruption probe. The findings not only confirm earlier studies on ‘press-party’ parallelism but also reveal ‘press-sociopolitical camp parallelism’ in Turkey’s polarized media system. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.EnglishCorruption (political), Framing, Media, Media Systems, Political Parallelism, Power (political)Article