Within April 30 - May 6, 2018, four articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, Buddhists, Armenians and Syrians as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. In the article published in Yeni Söz with the title “Greeks cannot behave themselves: Turkish digger driver detained”, the detention carried out by Greek soldiers is attributed to the Greek identity as a whole. In this way, the newspaper leads to spread of a negative perception of Greeks and labeling them as an element of 'threat'.

2. In the article published in Milat with the title “Crime against humanity in Rohingya”, Buddhists are associated with violence and massacre as we see in this statement: “Rohingya National Organization Chair Nurul İslam stated that humanity is shocked in the face of ethnic, religious and political atrocity carried out by Buddhists against Rohingya Muslims.” In this way, the newspaper incites prejudices against Buddhists by labeling them as a “threat” against Muslims.

3. In the article published in Adapazarı Akşam Haberleri with the title “Armenian atrocity told on stage”, all Armenians are associated with violence and atrocity as we see in the following statement: “Directed by Azerbaijani İftihar Piriyev, the play staged the genocides carried out by Armenians in Anatolia and southern Azerbaijan in 1915 and before.” In this way, the newspaper provokes the reader against Armenians and incites enmity between peoples.

4. Caner Evyapan, in his column titled “Are Syrian grocers working for PKK?”, presents Syrians as a threat against Turkey with his following statements: “In many Syrian grocery stores, cigarettes returning profit to PKK are sold” and “Isn’t it necessary to spit in the face of our Syrian brothers (!), whom we took our country as ‘suffering’, enabled to get rich by letting them start business without any tax or payment and who are making money for a terrorist organization? And more sadly, in the faces of the ones who overlook this situation?” Thus, the columnist incites an existing prejudice against Syrian refugees and reinforces hatred and discrimination.

^{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.}