Within March 19-25, 2018, four articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Jews, Christians, Greeks, Cypriot Greeks, Syrians and Armenians as well as the analyses written about them below..¹

1. Erkan Tan, in his column titled “THEY WENT MAD BECAUSE UNCONSCIOUS TURKEY IS AWAKE NOW”, writes: “The states forming the Crusader Christian and Zionist Jewish alliance… franticly wants Turkey to stay unconscious.” With this statement, he targets the states in question by emphasizing their Christian and Jewish identities and labels these identities as “threat”.

2. The article published in Yeni Mesaj with the title “THE SAME OLD SAME OLD” on the front page and with the title “the EU talking like Greeks” inside, using remarks like “EU leaders talked like Greeks”, “Support to Greeks” and “EU talks like Greeks in Turkey”, attributes a political and diplomatic incident between states to the Greek and Cypriot Greek identity as a whole by emphasizing ethnic and national identities unnecessarily. Thus, the prejudices against Greeks and Cypriot Greeks that the reader already has are escalated.

3. The article published in Milliyet with the title “Syrian stepping on Turkish flag arrested” covers a singular incident with an emphasis on the national identity though it is not directly related to the story. Thus, the article encourages negative judgments about Syrians and incites hatred against them.

4. In the article published in Milat with the title “The ambassador killed by Armenians commemorated”, Armenians are associated with violence and enmity between peoples is incited with the title and the statements like the following: “Honorary Consul to Bostan Orhan Gündüz, who killed by Armenian gangs in the US 36 years ago, commemorated in Boston, Massachusetts.”

^{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.}