Within April 10-16, 2017, four news articles that generate hate speech had been selected for the weekly report. You can find these articles that generate hate speech against Jews, Syrians, non-Muslims and Armenians and the analyses below.¹

1. In the article titled “New problem in the capital city: Armenians”, Milat Gazetesi promotes the new episode of TV show “Payitaht Abdülhamid” (Capital City Abdulhamid). The article, with the title and the summary reading “In TV show Payitaht Abdülhamid, foreign powers trying to dominate and destroy Ottoman empire carry on their sneaky plans. The new problem will be Armenians who wish to shed blood in the capital city”, creates a negative perception of Armenians and incites hatred against them.

2. Sabah newspaper's headline story titled “I CANNOT BE A CAPTIVE IN THE LAND OF GIAOUR” uses the word “giaour” that is used as a word denoting hatred and insult against non-Muslim identities in Turkey and features a discourse that incites hatred against these identities without quotation marks. In this way, the newspaper affirms this discourse and helps to spread it.

3. Sabahattin Önkibar, in his column titled “BE CAREFUL ABOUT THIS TROUBLE”, writes: “HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of children don't go to school! They will become criminals or mafias in the future. These are the Syrian refugees in Turkey! If 'yes' wins in the referendum, they will be given Turkish citizenship to vote in 2019. In this case, Turkey will be doomed!” With these remarks, he targets Syrians. He labels Syrians as potential criminals and incites discrimination and hatred against them.

4. The article titled “Jews asking for trouble” covers the story of a group of Jewish residents who cut down 300 olive trees belonging to Palestinians in West Bank. Yeni Konya covers this story in such a way that it accuses all Jewish people of this incident. In this way, it reinforces present prejudices and hatred against Jews.

^{1. Within the scope of the media scanning work focusing on hate speech, all national newspapers and around 500 local newspapers are scanned based on pre-determined keywords (e.g. Traitor, apostate, refugee, Christian, Jewish, separatist, etc.) by 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.}