Within May 7-13, 2018, four articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, Syrians, the French and the British as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. Osman Necip Sevinç, in his column titled “THE IMMORAL”, insults the French with the following remark: “The French is a nation famous for its immorality. Their so-called intellectual recruitment demanded verses of Quran containing violence against Jews is removed from the Quran.” Thus, he reinforces the prejudices against the French.

2. The article published in Özgür Kocaeli with the title “Syrian abuser arrested” associates Syrian identity with abuse by highlighting the national identity of the perpetrator of a criminal incident. Thus, the article strengthens the negative prejudices against Syrians.

3. The article published in Bursa A Haber with the title “BRITISH SNEAKINESS” features the statements of Mehmet Çelik, who gave a speech in a conference held in Bursa, both in the main title and subheadings without quotation marks. Throughout the column, British identity is associated with conspiracy on the basis of the narration covered in the article; all British and Greek people are accused of what has been going on. Thus, the article reinforces the existing negative opinions about British and Greek identities and the perception of enmity.

4. The article published in Yeni Akit with the title “HERETICS GONE WILD ‘CHANGE THE QURAN’” covers a statement by attributing it to all Jewish and French people as we can see in the following statements: “The heresy of islamophobe Jews and French has no limits”, “Grandchildren of heretic Jews, who changed the Torah and interpreted it in their own way, took action to change the Quran as well” and “Jews attempting an impudent attack against Islam and their Muslim supporters dared to make a call for removing or changing the verses about Jews”. Thus, the article labels Jewish and French identities as anti-Islam and anti-Muslim.

^{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.}