Media and Islamophobia Researches in Turkey

Islamophobia has recently gained visibility as a subject that has been frequently addressed in academic studies. Among these studies, the intensity of research on the relationship between media and Islamophobia is remarkable. Within the scope of the study, studies dealing with the relationship between media and Islamophobia in the fields of Communication, Sociology, Philosophy, and Theology were evaluated. In this context, in order to present perspective, firstly, a general framework of the academic texts in the international literature has been drawn and the problems encountered in the studies have been interpreted. With these results; thesis, articles, and books about the issues of traditional media and Islamophobia in Turkey, cinema and Islamophobia, social media / digital games and Islamophobia are analyzed. As a result of the study using descriptive research method, the researches focusing on the relationship between media and Islamophobia in general rather started late in Turkey and that the subject has been determined as inadequate relative to the international literature. Also as a result of the evaluation of the literature and studies in the international media and Islamophobia in Turkey, it was revealed that these studies had a number of problems such as philosophical problem, lack of historical perspective and conceptualization problem