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Haluk Şahin is a journalist, communication scholar, and author whose work connects media practice with the political memory of public events. The Hate Trap - The Anatomy of a Forgotten Assassination revisits a killing that slipped from broad attention and reconstructs the forces surrounding it. Its emphasis is not limited to the crime itself: the book asks how hostility is produced, circulated, and eventually allowed to obscure responsibility.
Şahin's background in journalism gives the investigation a disciplined concern with testimony, public language, and the afterlife of a news event. The structure moves between the particular assassination and the wider mechanisms through which prejudice becomes socially useful. The Hate Trap therefore brings media, violence, and political accountability into one sustained account of collective forgetting.
