Within November 6-12, 2017, three news articles that generate hate speech had been selected from the print media. You can find these articles that generate hate speech against Christians, Armenians, Bulgarians, Rûms and Jews as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. The article that was published in the newspaper İstiklal with the title “Jewish oppression” attributes the incidents, for which Israeli forces are alleged to have responsibility, to all Jews in its title. Therefore, the newspaper associates Jews with violence and fuels the existing prejudice towards them.

2. The news article published by the newspaper Yeni Akit using the titles “Christian terror is ON STAGE AGAIN” in the first page and “AMERICAN PROTECTION FOR CHRISTIAN TERROR” in the inner page, recurrently emphasizes the religious identity of the suspect. Therefore, the newspaper associates Christians with violence, marks them as a ’threat’ and targets them.

3. Servet Avcı, in his column titled "The stern racist dominating the host!", writes: “While fires were started everywhere in our territory in the beginning of the previous century, we have not even considered taking revenge on the cognates in Istanbul of the ethnical elements who turned those fires into an atrocity, neither on Armenians, nor on Bulgarians, nor on Rûms…”, and thus he associates Armenian, Bulgarian and Rûm identities with violence through such statements.

^{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.}