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Speech includes all the dimensions of the message, what the speaker is based on, who he addresses, and what he mainly intends. Speech analysis aims to understand and explain how it serves the ideological purposes in the context of the cultural structure, how the audience’s way of thinking, how their actions are formed or limited. In this study, the coronavirus, which causes a variety of diseases in humans and animals and many species, affects the whole world, turns into a dangerous epidemic and the first vaccine in Turkey on 11 March 2020, with the impressive statements made by the Minister of Health Dr. Fahrettin Koca on the social media account on the epidemic, has been studied by the Critical Speech Analysis method. Thematic and schematic analysis of speeches, state assessments, comment size, phrase structures, word choices in speeches and persuasion strategies have been determined. Thus, the influences of the virus, the main source, on social life, the policy of minimizing these effects, the viewpoint of a Minister of Health has been promoted, the contribution to the linguistic material and the socio-cultural background has been provided.

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