标题：An evaluation of the participation of Turkish female athletes in the 2012 London Olympics and its press coverage in the written media Türk kadın sporcuların 2012 Londra Olimpiyatları’na katılımı ve basında yer almaları ile ilgili bir değerlendirme
摘要：The purpose of this study was to evaluate the participation of Turkish female athletes in the 2012 London Olympics and its press coverage in the written media. A “document analysis method” was used to collect data. As types of document the Internet editions of the Turkish national newspapers were selected. Document scanning was structured within the news in the national newspapers in the context of the 2012 London Olympic Games between 1 July 2012 and 31 August 2012. Number of news reached in this direction were 22. The methods used to evaluate data included descriptive and content analysis. Data was analyzed using NVIVO-10 qualitative analysis software. In order to ensure reliability and validity in this qualitative study four aspects were used: credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability. According to the results, it is possible to say that the female athletes experienced large attention from the written press as bringing many “firsts” to the Turkish sports history through their participation in the 2012 Olympics such as; the number of female athletes being more than the number of male athletes and Turkey is being different in the Islamic world in terms of women sports.
