Within July 13-19, 2020, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find three articles that contain hate speech against Greeks and Armenians as well as the analyses written about them below.

1. Covering Hagia Sophia’s reclassification as a mosque, the article published in Aydın Ses on July 13 with the title “Reclassification of Hagia Sophia is the herald of resurrection” mentions places where Muslim people live and refers to the liberation of those places “new red apples”. Among these “new red apples”, there is also “avenging” the massacre of Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. The article also states that “Turkish nation must be united as one” and act in concert “without acting as the mouthpiece of Jewish-Christian crusader mentality / without listening to nonsense of a parasitic state like Greece”. With these discourses, the perception of enmity is created against national and religious identities.

2. Referring to the Armenian Foreign Minister’s statement on Hagia Sophia’s reclassification as a mosque, the article published in Yeni Şafak with the title “Armenia forgot that it turned a mosque into a barn”, Armenian identity is targeted through the unfounded claim that “Armenians” torched a mosque and turned into a barn.

3. The article published in Yeni Akit on July 19 discusses political international relations. With the title, “Russia is behind Armenian vileness”, enmity against Armenian identity is incited.

^{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.}