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The transmission of both Islamophobia and hate speech to the masses through the media, which has the power to influence and direct people’s minds, causes these facts to be legitimized, disseminated, and internalized. In this context, the study will reveal whether hate speech is produced through the media in response to Islamophobic speech. This study, after the decapitation of a teacher in France on October 16, 2020, and the French authorities’ definition of the incident as “Islamist terror” and the aggressor as “Islamist terrorist”, how Islamophobic rhetoric and developments targeting Islam and Muslims were presented in the Turkish print media. It is aimed to be revealed. All front-page news about developments after the incident by Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Sabah, Sözcü, Yeni Şafak newspapers included in the sample of the study were discussed in the context of hate speech. The headlines, contents, visuals of the news, and the perspectives of the newspapers regarding the event were analyzed using Teun van Dijk’s discourse analysis method. As a result of the research, while reporting the Islamophobic-based situations of the newspapers; It was determined that he did not elaborate the background and context information, he built the contents of the news based on the evaluations made by a single person on the subject and produced hate speech.

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