Within March 2-8, 2020, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find three articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, Arabs, Russians, Jews, Germans as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. Milat gazetesi reports Greek security forces’ violent treatment of migrants on their borders and attempts to conduct military exercise on the border with the title “Greek treachery”. In this way, practices of Greek state and institutions are attributed to Greek identity and enmity against this identity is reinforced.

2. Sözcü Gazetesi reports that Turkey will send a special forces unit of thousand strong in response to Greek security forces that are violently sending migrants back to Turkey with the title “Special operations unit will stop Greek atrocity”. In this way, the reported violence is mentioned through Greek identity.

3. Nami Tonka, in his article, quotes from Süleyman Nazif’s article titled “Rus Kimdir? Moskof Nedir?’’ [Who are Russians? What is Muscovite?]: “Muscovite’s peace is deceptive, silence is rabid, smile is treacherous, help is humiliating. Oh the son of Turk! The ones who gave the blood in your veins fought to the last drop of their blood in Muscovite wars. Whoever you are and will be, don’t you ever forget that you are the orphan of those martyrs! This purpose, this grudge and this vengeance are their holy heritage to you like this religion, state and motherland. As long as Russia and Russians exist in this world, defer to this right and duty, the son of Turk. Your right is to kill and your duty is to die!” He writes that he gives this passage to his students for studying in terms of ethical values and that his purpose is to teach that “Russians, against whom we fight once every three years a small war and once every ten years a major war, cannot be trusted and we must always be on guard.” As it is understood, he agrees in the racist ideas of the quoted author. Then, he uses openly hostile discourse concerning several identities, when he writes about the coalition that he claims to be formed for oil and gas in the Mediterranean: “Anglo-Saxon, German, Greek, Arab, Jew hand in hand…”

^{1. Within the scope of the media monitoring work focusing on hate speech, all national newspapers and around 500 local newspapers are monitored based on pre-determined keywords (e.g. Traitor, apostate, refugee, Christian, Jewish, separatist, etc.) via the media monitoring center. While the main focus has been hate speech on the basis of national, ethnic and religious identities; sexist and homophobic discourses are also examined as part of the monitoring work.}