Özet:

This study is aimed at studying how adolescents react to cyber harassment in the framework of Olweus's Acra Harassment Model. The study included 49 seventh and eighth-class students from seven different regions of Turkey, aged between 12 and 14. The data of the study was collected through focus group conversations and a semi-configured interview form. In the interviews, the teenagers were asked whether they were witnesses of cyber harassment, some shared their testimonies as well as their behavior directly exposed to or done on the internet. In the analysis of the data, we used a comprehensive approach. When the findings are classified according to Olweus' relative rape model, the participants have previously experienced cyber rape with the status of the victim, the potential defenders of the victim, the rape, the defenders of the victim and the secret supporters of the rape.  However, the study found that the participants did not have a cyber abuse experience in Olweus’ fellow abuse model, followers of the abuse and supporters of the abuse. The findings indicate that the victims in cyber harassment process are labeled as shamar boys, they do not conform to the rules of secure internet use and they are deprived of social support. The potential defenders of the victim were aware that the victim was injured, but the adults and relatives were afraid to help the victim because of their negative attitudes. Students identified in the Zorba status have also been found to act without thinking about the consequences of their behavior and not pay attention to the ethics of the internet. It is also identified that these students have been abused for the purpose of protecting people who are undergoing entertainment, revenge and harassment. On the other hand, the victim's supporters, according to the students' statements in the group, have a high level of empathic understanding and self-quality. The participants in this group indicate that they use the strategies of talking with the bullying to fight cyber harassment, clearly showing other fellow victims their position, using their technological skills to prevent the bullying and face-to-face fighting with the bullying.  Students, who are passive supporters of the victim, also point out the most attracted features that the victim believes that he deserves violent behavior.  According to these findings, adolescents in Turkey have experience of cyber harassment and the cyber harassment process is processed in the same way as Olweus’ fellow harassment cycle. The study demonstrates the importance of the process of fighting cyber fraud taking into account these statutes and developing different strategies for each status. In this context, the obstacles to the transformation of the victim’s passive supporters into active supporters should be removed, and the efforts to improve the empathy skills of adolescents for the potential supporters of torture and torture should be emphasized.