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This study aims to examine the prominent representations of women in crime and violence news, the type, reason, and method of the violence, the way these news are transmitted in terms of their content and technicality, and how they differ when the woman is the victim and when she is the offender. In this context, 540 third page news of Hürriyet, Sözcü and Yeni Şafak newspapers published in July, October and January of the years of 2018 and 2019 have been analyzed with the content analysis method. A significant rating (82%) of women in the news were victims of an event or situation. While the victims are mostly the husband or ex-husband of the woman(221), it has been detected that in cases where the woman is the offender, the victim is mostly children(25), strangers, people whose relationship level is unknown or unspecified(24) and neighbors, acquaintances and relatives(21). While the reasons for the crimes and violent behaviors towards women are given as arguments-fights, divorce-separation and jealousy, respectively, in the news, we see that when the women are presented as offenders, the reasons given in these news are mostly arguments-fights, self-defense and jealousy. Lastly, after analyzing the distribution of the third page news about crime and violence involving women, it has been determined that the newspaper Hürriyet(280) has produced more intense news content compared to the Sözcü(194) and Yeni Şafak(67) newspapers.

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