Within March 30 - April 5, 2020, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find three articles that contain hate speech against Armenians, Greeks, and Syrians as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1.  The article published in Milli Gazete with the title “Greeks killed two asylum seekers” reports the Amnesty International’s reports on what is happening along Turkish-Greek border. Referring to the event in the title by holding Greek identity responsible, the article foments negative judgments about Greeks.

2. The article published in Körfez Gazetesi with the title “Pharmacy fraud is Syrians’ new job”, Syrians are associated with crime and negative sentiments about is reinforced with the emphasis on the national identity of the suspect.

3. The article published in Diriliş Postası with the title “Azerbaijanis martyred by Armenians are commemorated” associates Armenian identity with massacre and violence as we see in the following sentence: “The massacre carried out by Armenians 102 years ago is considered as the gravest and cruelest massacre in the history of Azerbaijan. Armenians who were placed in several regions of Azerbaijan at the end of the Tsarist Russia abused the void of power and started to massacre Azerbaijanis in neighboring villages and towns to confiscate their lands.” Thus, the article foments enmity against Armenians.

^{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.}