Alkan, NailSeyrek, Nihat2022-08-232022-08-232001http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/83348SUMMARY Terrorism doesn't have a certain definition to convince everybody. Besides being a complex fact that may cause different approaches in different cases or being open to include value judgement, "using violence" that is not detachable from terrorism deepen the disagreement in the common definition. In addition to this, terrorism, may be defined as; achieving illegal strategic and political aims by frightening an innocence society using violence or threat of violence by an organization or a state. Terrorism, that involves more than one country or their citizens is called "international terrorism". Killing another country's diplomats, businessmen or directors, to skyjack planes by any terrorists is international terrorism. The main feature of international terrorism is terror organizations or countries giving support to terrorism having a political purpose mat is beyond their boundaries. It tends to reach political purposes and creating political changes. All these show that international terrorism is an act of violence that happens in the boundaries of a contry and infringe people's rights. In democratic countries, terrorism aims to destroy democracy. In order not to fall into the trap of terrorism, loyality to the principles of democracy is needed. Terrorism can only be defeated by public will 112Following years will possibly become "the era of super terror" in which terrorists will use more destructive powers. Future's most dangerous terrorists won't be politic ideologies but terrorists that act with ethnic and religious emotions. And for materializing their will, there will also be the choices of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. 113trSiyasal BilgilermasterThesis