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This study uses a descriptive and cross-sectional study design to determination of social distance and anxiety situations of the society about asylum seekers. The research population consisted of individuals older than 18 living in Denizli. A random sampling method was used. To collect data, the following tools were used: a questionnaire to collect socio-demographic information, the Intergroups Anxiety Scale (IAS) and the Social Distance Scale (SDS). Statistical analysis was conducted to examine the distributions and proportions of attitudes in the sample, as well as student t testing, analysis of variance. The number of people who involved in this survey was 1709. A large majority of the participants (83.5%) described themselves as Turkish; the remaining 16.5% described themselves as Circassian, Chechen, Kurdish, Bosnian, Laz or Arab. The IAS total mean score was found to be 18.60±6.62 while the SDS total mean score was 19.96±7.82. When IAS is examined, it is determined that women are more anxious than males who express themselves as Turks compared to other ethnic origin, and the statistical difference is significant. When SDS was examined, it was determided that women, primary school and secondary school graduates and people describing themselves as Turkish have to be distant to asylum-seekers (p<0.05). In addition, it was determined statistically that there is a medium level and positive correlation between individuals’ IAS and SDS point averages (r=.60, p<.01). That is, the emotion and thought of individuals participating in the survey towards asylum-seekers were found to be have negative, prejudiced and discriminatory tendency. 

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