Violence against healthcare workers has become a global problem with a high prevalencenworldwide. Examining the root causes of violence that occurs within a specific healthcarennsystem and evaluating it from an ethical perspective will be important for understanding vi-nolence and developing prevention strategies. The physician/health worker-patient relation-nship is an interaction that has ancient values from the past to the present and where the hu-nmanistic dimension is at the forefront. The fact that healthcare professionals provide servicesnnbased on mutual respect, trust, honesty, compassion and fidelity, based on patient benefit,ncontributes to the success of the patient’s diagnosis and treatment process. However, in thenlast thirty years, there has been a significant transformation in this field due to the effectsnof some external factors such as health systems, medical technology, medical education,nnadvanced specialization, physician’s patient load, legal regulations, and the media, especial-nly on the physician-patient relationship. This feature of the physician-patient relationship,nnwhich is based on ethical values, has been eroded, mechanized and reduced to a servicenprovider-service recipient relationship. The bonds of mutual respect, trust and compassionnhave started to dissolve, and a new situation of anomie and loss of value has emerged. Thisnnew situation has gradually become dominated by domination and violence. Violence isnunethical because it is an act that disregards the value of human beings as beings with moralnstatus and dignity, and because it treats human beings as tools. The instrumentalization andndevaluation of health workers is one of the main dynamics underlying violence.nViolence against healthcare workers is akin to the tip of the iceberg, stemming fromnvarious underlying social, economic, political, legal, and cultural factors. However, despitennits complexity and multidimensionality, violence against healthcare workers is a prevent-nable issue. In short, it is necessary to combat all factors that lead to violence in the health-ncare. It is not enough to rely solely on judicial penalties; necessary adjustments within thennhealthcare system and the establishment of permanent and sustainable national policiesnare also vital.