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In this study, through the ethical concept, the state of citizen journalism in the Turkish media is studied and the platforms that work in this field are investigating the news that the Bianet and the Nine News sites are related to the refugee crisis, through the ethical violations encountered, the mainstream media’s strong names are evaluated by comparing the internet news sites of the Hürriyet newspaper and the Yenişafak newspaper. In this regard, first, the concept of ethics was studied and focused on the ethical fact in the media. In addition, a thorough study of the history of citizen journalism and the situation in Turkey has been conducted on this concept. The examples of the study are made by Bianet, Nine8haber, Hürriyet and Yenişafak news sites. From 28 February 2020 to 28 March 2020, which is the opening date of the European doors for refugees in Turkey, the information on the refugee crisis on these websites has been reviewed by content analysis method. This assessment is the source of the assessment of what the ethical issues faced in the refugee news that the Ethical Journalism Network has published. The results of these assessments have found that the mainstream media stands more on these news compared to citizen journalism, and less ethical violations have been found when compared to the number of news it makes. While the lack of news on the refugee crisis at the site of Nine8News has been highlighted, the news published through Bianet has not been given sufficient care in the context of ethical violations.

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In this research, it was aimed to compare the differences of citizen journalism and national journalism in the topic of the refugee crisis by thematizing the ethical violation. Bianet& Dokuz8haber websites were chosen as a subject group of citizen journalism. Hürriyet&Yeni Şafak websites were chosen as a subject group of national journalism. All of the related news on the above-mentioned websites were studied and detected ethical violations were compared. First of all, the ethical concept is researched and pointed to the ethical facts at the media. First of all, the ethical concept was researched and was pointed to the ethical facts at the media. It was also mentioned about the new media trend and the possible research interest were examined as well as it is studied deeply. The Bianet, Dokuz8haber, Hürriyet ve Yenisafak news web sites are the basics of this study. The related news were commentated on these web sites and were analyzed by the content analysis method in between the dates 28.02.2020-28.03.2020 when the borders of Europe were opened in Turkey. The points released by ‘’Ethical Journalism Network” which were about the ethical problems faced on the refugee news are base of this review. The results of this research, it was confirmed that the national journalism made more news about these issues and made less ethical violations rated the news quantity than citizen journalism. It was elicited that there was less news on the Dokuz8haber website about the refugee crisis and the Bianet website did not pay too much attention to the ethical violation.