People who live in Turkey have experienced terrorist attacks for more than thirty years. In the past, the goals of the terrorist organizations were to frighten innocent civilians, but modern attacks are much more malevolent, and they have turned into indiscriminate massacres. In recent years, terrorist organizations have attacked big cities and the general population feels that terrorism is no longer a regional problem and anyone could be in danger. The objective of this study is to determine defense mechanisms against fear of death after terrorist attacks in 2016, Ankara. Therefore, this study used a phenomenological approach as a method of qualitative research. This study applied open-ended questions in a semi-structured interview form on a sample of N = 26 selected by purposive sampling that lived in Ankara during June 2016. End of the study, four different defense mechanisms were determined. These defense mechanisms were religious-active, religious-passive, nonreligious-passive, and non-religious active (Figure 1). As a result, the researchers realized that neither classical Islamic philosophers' destiny/qadar • 33