Özet:

In Turkish press, prejudiced and discriminatory discourses which lack of right-based approach take part on columns and the news that subjected to Syrian refugees. In this study, Sözcü Newspaper as an anti-government national press representative and Yeni Akit Newspaper as a pro-government representative were selected as samples; Xenophobia was examined within the discourses of humanist and anti-humanist; a seven-month process from the Joint Action Plan signed on November 29, 2015 with the European Union to the statement of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan about the citizenship which will be granted to Syrian refugees living in Turkey on July 3, 2016 (1 December 2015 to 15 July 2016) was revised. A total of 67 newspaper reports that related to the subject, including 37 Yeni Akit and 30 Sözcü were examined by using the keywords “Syrians, Syrian Refugees, Syrian Immigrants, Xenophobia”. Out of the 13 columns, only 2 news were in Yeni Akit and the remaining 11 news was located in Sözcü Newspaper. 13 positive reports were in Yeni Akit, while only 1 positive report was found in Sözcü Newspaper.Findings were evaluated in three main case frameworks. These are; security oriented point of view, social based and economic based cases. In the research; 2 reports related to security oriented point of view was found in the Yeni Akit Newspaper and 7 reports in the Sözcü Newspaper. While 5 news in the Yeni Akit Newspaper was considered economically based, there are 7 related news was found in the Sözcü Gazetesi. According to social based perspective, it was seen that 4 news were in the Sözcü Newspaper and 28 news were in the Yeni Akit Newspaper. In the findings, the news headlines of Yeni Akit Newspaper were addressed the religious and humanitarian sentiments of the society in favor of the pro-government opposition line at the frontline. Conversely, when the news of the Sözcü Newspaper were examined, security and economic based cases has seen to be at the frontline and social based news were in the background.

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