Reflection of terror incidents that threaten the state security in television news

State is a kind of organization that comes into being as a result of the resistance which people, living together, show against the difficulties of life. Moreover, state is a unity of systems that eliminates the disorder in the social life and secures the order of society through laws and rules. Thus, it is necessary for the state to fight against the imminences which threaten its own organization and the power components that constitute its very being in the name of the presence of the country and the nation. The concepts of state security and public order come into the picture out of this fight. The meaning of these concepts changes depending on the form of the threats against the state and the citizens, who are the source of existence for the state. Terrorism has an important place among the varying forms of threat against the state.Terror is a kind of organization that produces actions against the state, the public order that the state introduces and the civil citizens thus causing fear and violence in the society for achieving its goal. Terror, as a structure, is presented in this thesis with a special emphasis on its propagandist characteristics represented in the national visual media. In this study, terrorist field of propaganda is discussed through analysis of the discourses used in announcement of news related to the terrorist attacks in the national visual media.Keywords: State Security, Terrorism, Television News, Propaganda