KELLY VAUGHAN of Brooklyn, a Times reader, lived in Istanbul for a year, and so has followed the media coverage of the violence in Turkey with great interest.

She wrote to me last week after the terrorist attacks in Brussels with a concern: “I can’t help but wonder why The Times is naming the individual victims of the Brussels attacks, and profiling at least some of them, when the same was not done (as far as I can find)” for the victims in Ankara and Istanbul, she wrote. This was also the case, she noted, “in other world cities,” whether “the violence was in Lebanon, Mali or Kenya.”

Ms. Vaughn said she was able to imagine a number of reasons for this discrepancy, “some of which feel more legitimate than others.” She asked “how The Times decides how to cover these similar tragedies in such different ways.”

Many others raised similar concerns. Richard Greenberg, also of New York, wrote: “Why did the N.Y.T. devote so much less coverage to the Ivory Coast terror attack from just last week, in which 16 people were killed, including both Africans and Europeans?” And Theodore Glasser, a communications professor at Stanford University, put it succinctly: “ISIS kills 30+ in Brussels: Big story, page 1. ISIS kills 30+ in Baghdad, small story, page 6, below the fold. What does this tell us about newsroom biases?”