Within November 13-19, 2017, three news articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media for the weekly report. You can find these articles that generate hate speech against Buddhists, Syrians, Iraqis and Jews as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. The article that was published in the newspaper Yeni Söz titled "Buddhist Scumbags are not Humans" is about the report prepared by Human Rights Watch regarding the events in Myanmar. The main heading and the subheading “BUDDHISTS ARE NOT HUMANS, THEY ARE MONSTERS” of the news article attribute the responsibility of the violence to the Buddhist identity insulting all Buddhists and fueling the existing negative sentiments. At the same time, the emphasis on Jews and Christians in the statements "International Human Rights Watch documented the sexual violence and systematic genocide applied by the Myanmar Army to Arakan Muslims with the support of Jewish and Christian countries in a report” brings these identities under suspicion and marks them as a ‘threat’.

2. Ersin Akboyun, in his article titled “FOREIGNERS ON ALL SIDES!...” writes: “Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan, Nigerien, Burmese, Guinean, Iranian, Turkistani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz... There used to be only Russians and Ukrainians in our country, and you used to recognize them at the first glance... But now people from 77 nations..." and "Now we have foreigners on all sides, mainly Syrians... Some of them have beard, some have burqa, it is impossible to understand what or who they are when you look, you cannot know which of them are potential murderers, which of them are terrorists or which of them are innocent...", thereby otherizing all groups concerned, comparing these among themselves, associating them with crime and targeting them.

3. The article that was published in the newspaper Yeni Konya titled "Usurping Jew" contains expressions both in the title and in the statement “Land that belongs to the Palestinians were given to the Jews” which associate the responsibility for the claim concerned with the Jewish identity. In this way, Jews are targeted and the existing negative prejudices towards them are fueled.

^{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.}