Özet:

Europe is facing one of the biggest refugee crisis since the World War II. According to the official numbers almost 1 million people from the North African countries have reached to the European Union countries such as Italy, Malta and Spain. When the refugee crisis first appeared, citizens of the countries that accept these people firstly helped these people with mercy and peace. As the time goes on, people started to feel anxiety due to the situation of this crisis. Because as the period of these peoples' duration of stay gets longer, they started to change peoples' psychology. And yet 2011, another big refugee crises appeared in the process of Syrian civil war. Once again according to the official numbers, almost 2 million Syrians left the country and moved to neighbour countries.  But as the time goes on, these people started to search for a better life and EU countries were the best choice among others. In this study, based on the news that were appeared in the euronews YouTube channel about the Syrian refugees, the comments of the European citizens are criticised according to content analysis and tried to find out how the nationalism expressions are increased.Keywords: Syrian; Refugee; Crisis; Nationalism; Social Media.

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