Within November 27 - December 3, 2017, four 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 Syrians, Jews, Greeks and Russians as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1.   The article published in the newspaper Kayseri Hakimiyet titled “Syrian suspect caught with 6250 packages of smuggled cigarettes” associates Syrians with crime through the emphasis made on the national identity of the suspects in the title of the news article and the existing prejudices against Syrians are fueled within the perception of the readers.

2. The article published in the newspaper Yeni Konya titled “Sneaky game of the Jews” is about a bill that had been approved in the Israeli parliament. However, the newspaper brings Jews under suspicion and fuels the existing prejudice and hate towards them.

3.   Ayhan Demir, in his article titled “Cruelty of the Greeks”, writes: “Everybody knows about the grudge of the Jews against the Muslim Turks. They have turned such emotions of theirs to an evil act against the Muslim Turks at every opportunity. For this reason: The word meaning 'enemy' is 'Greek' in Anatolia”. With such remarks, he labels Greeks as the enemy throughout the text. The author incites the readers against the Greeks and fuels enmity between the peoples.

4. Ahmet Sıvacı, in his article titled “DO NOT FORGET THE RUSSIAN MASSACRE ‘URKUN’ !”, writes: “If we say that the Red China’s massacre in Eastern Turkistan was previously done by the Moscow giaour, you would of course believe it” and “Russian giaour now massacres in the Middle East". With such remarks, he associates Russians with violence and massacre, fueling enmity towards them. Sıvacı also reinforces the perception of enmity with the word ‘giaour’, which is used as an expression of hate and humiliation for the non-Muslim identities in Turkey.

^{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.}