During the cold war period when the world was divided into two main blocs, Turkish politicians and diplomats who turned to the west due to the motto of rising to the level of contemporary civilizations, used their preferences to get closer to the United States. Battleship Missouri eminent warship of the US Army’s visit to Turkey is the visible side of this rapprochement. This visit is the dominant point of the paradigm shift in Turkish foreign policy and it has also fired the fuse of some processes such as Truman and Marshall Aids and Military Convenience Agreement. The print media, which cannot be indifferent to such an important visit, did not hesitate to make every effort to shape the Turkish public opinion in a positive perception axis while reporting this visit.For the study aimed to show the reflections of Missouri battleship’s visit to Turkey in Turkish press, the newspapers Akşam, Cumhuriyet, İkdam, Tanin, Ulus and Vakit were selected as samples from the press of the period.Analysed Newspapers were taken from the period from 5 to 10 April 1946 for the realization visit of Missouri to Turkey. Descriptive analysis, one of the qualitative research approaches, was used in the analysis of newspapers. During this visit, most of the Turkish press adopted a publishing policy that legitimized the government’s rapprochement with America. Therefore, newspapers have preferred to increase the USTurkey friendship in the forefront of broadcasting.Many pages of the newspapers covering the visit were decorated with propagandist images and photographs, and the press preferred to convey the visit of Missouri to the public in a festive atmosphere.