Within October 9-15, 2017, four news articles from the print media that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that generate hate speech against non-Muslims, Greeks, Jews, Armenians, Rûms and the British as well as the analyses written about them below.1


1.

Ortadoğu, October 13, 2017

Orhan Karataş, in his column titled “Where are 84 and 85, are there any 86 and 87?”, with his statements “You are not disturbed by the facts that the Armenians have an eye to Ağrı, Rûms to Cyprus, Greeks to İzmir, the English to Istanbul, traitors like Barzani to Diyarbakır; so why are you disturbed by us having an eye to Batum?”, incites the readers and fuels enmity between peoples by marking the Armenians, Rûms, Greeks and the English as a potential threat and enemy. 

 

2.

Yeni Akit, October 12, 2017

In the news article titled “Another Jewish attack on the Al-aqsa Mosque” published in the newspaper Yeni Akit, events caused by a group of radical settlers are described by bringing all Jews under suspicion. Therefore, the already existing prejudice and hate against Jews are fuelled.

 

3.

Şok, October 11, 2017

In the news article titled "GREEK TERROR" published in the newspaper Şok, policies of Greece directed towards foreign refugees are conveyed with an emphasis on the Greek identity. The newspaper thus brings all Greeks under suspicion and fuels a negative prejudice against them in the readers’ perception.

 

4.

Milat, October 10, 2017

Tayyar Tercan states in his column titled "One who eats the bread of giaour!.."; "Old people used to say ‘one who eats the bread of giaour swings the sword of the giaour’. We should not forget the fools whose brains have been castrated and are voluntarily on the same side with the giaour either beside a certain population who swing the sword of the giaour since they eat the bread of the giaour", thereby reproducing a context that enmitizes non-Muslim identities with the expression 'giaour', which is used as an expression of humiliation and enmity towards non-Muslim identities.

 

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.