This literature review focuses on water security in Turkey over the past years, and it examines three foreign media articles as well as three domestic media releases published in English language over a period of six months, between January and June 2021, to address the problem of how water crisis in Turkey is framed by the media under consideration. Following a discussion and a brief history of water-stress points in the region, including Turkey, the reviewer will survey the published studies on this particular topic to identify the criteria for critical evaluation of all the selected literature under the Vreese’s journalistic concept of “frame-building”. The synthesis, then, will highlight factors, like power, interests and disinterests, that influence the frequency and presence in building of frames by the selected media communities.

Keywords : Water; Scarecity; Turkey; Press; Review.