Within November 20-26, 2017, four news articles that generate hate speech were selected from the print media. You can find these articles that generate hate speech against Jews, Christians, Arabs, LGBTIs, Buddhists and Germans as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1.   Vatan gazetesinin, "Arakanlılara Türk modeli" başlıklı haberinde, "Myanmar'da Budist zulmünden kaçan Arakanlı Müslümanlar için Bangladeş'te çadır kentler kurulacak" ve "Budist katliamından kaçan yüz binlerce Arakanlı Müslüman'ın Myanmar'a geri gönderilmesi gündemde" sözleriyle, söz konusu saldırıların ve şiddet olaylarının sorumluluğu tüm bir kimliğe mal edilerek Budistler düşmanlaştırılıyor.

2. Yeni Akit gazetesinin, "Irkçı Almanlar Türkleri kurşunları" başlığıyla hazırladığı haberde, Almanya'nın Gelsenkirchen kentinde bir süpermarkete yapılan saldırı, haberin başlığında tüm Almanlar zan altında bırakılarak aktarılıyor. Böylece gazete, Almanlar ve Türkler arasında bir karşıtlık oluşturarak Almanlara dair olumsuz bir algı oluşturuyor.

3. Zeki Taşkıran, in his column titled “TRIAL WITH THE UNBELIEVERS AND HYPOCRITES!” writes: “The intense struggle of Jews and Christians within the territory of Islam, primarily our country, which is almost like an assault, has increased to such an extent in recent years, you are never intelligent enough to solve this as a human being or predict what the next move may be.” With such remarks he positions Jews and Christians as an ‘element of threat' for Muslims and enmitizes them. Taşkıran also writes: “It is deeply troubling that the Arab nation acts as a servant of the USA and the British using their Muslim identity. When we look at our recent history, we may see that the Arabs have such characteristics. That is why, as a nation, we know very well that you cannot set out on a journey relying on the Arab nation”, and with such statements he reinforces the prejudices against Arabs and the British and incites the readers against them.

4. The article that was published in the newspaper Yeni Akit titled “LET THE BAN ON HOMOSEXUALS EXTEND TO ALL 81 PROVINCES” contains statements such as “Lawyers and NGOs called for banning immoral activities of homosexuals, who market their dishonor under the name of ‘Pride’ and who make the propaganda of their deviations with the so called events they organize, in all 81 provinces stating that LGBTI activities should be banned in all provinces in order to protect the general moral structure and not to allow for any provocations”, and with such remarks, LGBTIs are insulted many times with accusations such as ‘deviation’ and ‘dishonor’ due to their sexual orientations and identities. The newspaper triggers the perception that LGBTIs are a threat to the social structure and causes normalization and dissemination of the prejudice and discrimination towards LGBTIs within the society.

^{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.}