Within January 8-14, 2018, four articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, non-Muslims, Buddhists and Jews as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1.   The article published in Sözcü with the title “Mehmetçik [Turkish soldiers] chasing Greeks in the west” covers the interactions between Turkish and Greek coast guards. The newspaper features the incident in the title in a way to accuse the entire Greek identity and targets Greeks by using a historical war discourse again.

2. Rüstem Budak, in his column titled “GIAOUR”, writes: “Giaours was the name given to non-Muslim communities. Afterwards, new giaours emerged. These giaours were native. It would be difficult to tell the native giaours from other giaours. Since we lost this distinction, we cannot call the infidel ‘infidel’, and we cannot call the cruel ‘cruel’. Identity cannot be built without descriptions and definitions. Truth won’t be revealed unless we call these giaours ‘giaour’ and make these giaours known as giaour.” With these remarks, he escalates the perception of enmity concerning non-Muslims by using the word giaour which is used as an expression of hatred and defamation for non-Muslims in Turkey.

3. In the article published in Milli Gazete with the title “MUSLIMS SPEND THEIR LIVES ON ROADS”, the entire Buddhist identity is hold responsible for the assaults and violence in Myanmar as we see in the summary: “Rohingya Muslims, who escaped from terrorism and genocide carried out by Buddhists in Myanmar and are left alone by the entire world, are trying to take shelter in Bangladesh which doesn’t want them.” Thus, the newspaper portrays Buddhists as enemies by associating them with violence.

4. The article published in Yeni Söz with the title “We will expel the ones who don’t love Israel” on the front page and with the title “Merkel acting like a servant of Jews” inside asks “Is the deranged Merkel also a Jew?” and contains expressions like “servant of Jews”. In this way, the newspaper symbolizes Jewish identity by using it as a source of enmity and threat.

^{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.}