@article{2016,title={HOSTAGE CRISIS and the APPROACH of TRADITIONAL MEDIA TOWARDS TERRORIST ACTIONS},abstractNode={Terrorism is one of the leading newsworthy subjects in media since it poses a threat to national and international security. the importance of language and rhetoric used in news related to terrorism events and their victims (martyr, relatives of martyrs and/or civilian population). The subject of this study is how terror incidents and what aspects of them are handled by the traditional media. Prosecutor was taken hostage and then martyred by members of a terrorist organization at Çağlayan Courthouse on 31 March 2015, and this event was selected for the case study. With what headlines and content the traditional media handled the event during the week following the death of Prosecutor was discussed. In this study Cumhuriyet, Birgun, Hurriyet, Akit and Yeni Safak newspaper examined via content analysis and evaluated.},author={Zafer ÖZDEMİR},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}