The changes that have to be made in Turkish Education System.

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Turkish TV News's style has been changing rapidly since the establishment of TRT. Turkish citizens have been expecting a comprehensive agenda from the TV News, like the TRT news in the past, but especially in recent years, Turkish television broadcasters are trying to make news about new trends and social activities rather than political news, for gaining more popularity of Turkish society. The two main problems that have to be changed in the content of the Turkish TV news broadcasting are harmful programs that effect Turkish people's psychology and visual elements that contain violence.

Turkish TV News should censor their news content harmful programs have to be changed due to their, undisputable, negative effects on Turkish society's psychology. First, News directors must not give permission for soft news to be made, instead of thinking about the financial worth of their programs, because Especially, banning the entertainment based soft news's subjects about the celebrity's private life will have a tremendous positive effect on teenagers who have been trying live like celebrities.

Visual elements in the News have significant power on audiences as a consequence of Turkish citizens' habit of merging what they see, with their personality. First, Crime news has been leading the percentage in the Turkish TV News and this news instigates the citizens to commit a crime. For minimizing the criminal risk for the citizens, news programs' directors have to express the punishments which were given to the criminals. Also, Revealed violence in TV news can cause fear alienation and encouragement for terrorist activities. For preventing this threat, the band that contains violence can be cut by display editors. On the other hand, some news makers have to be warned by the TV critics for trying to express the crime or the violent situation by using dramatic sentences.