Some scholars, for example, have examined the role of the CNN effect in humanitarian interventions of the 1990s and predicted that the CNN effect is critical, i.e., the media's ability in framing foreign policies when the governments' positions and preferences are uncertain.7 In short, this paper will investigate the impact of information societies and the framing of issues by the media on foreign. [...] This became apparent during the war in Iraq, as the Internet and information societies were utilized by the terrorist groups to wage war against the USA and its coalition forces, the broadcasting of the assassination of hostages through the internet became a tool in the war mechanism used by the terrorists, in an attempt to pressure domestic public opinion against their governments in the countrie. [...] During the Turkish-American negotiations over the conditions of the Turkish involvement in the Iraqi war, the media became an active player, actively influencing the outcome of negotiations that neither the Turkish nor the American diplomats could actually foresee. [...] The role the American media played in the Turkish-American relations soured the friendly relations between the two allies to the extent to which it almost wrecked the strategic partnership they have built over the years. [...] Most probably, the USA underestimated the level of domestic opposition to the war in Turkish public opinion and the role that information societies played during the American-Turkish negotiations for the Turkish support to the USA in Iraq backfired as it increased the anti-American feelings in Turkey.30 Consequently, for the first time ever, Turkey's public support to the USA hit rock bottom as de.