Within June 4-10, 2018, four articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Armenians, Jews, Syrians and the Westerners as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1.  Muhammed Özkılınç, in his column titled “Hypocrite civilization”, writes: “Yes, while the Westerners were deceiving the humanity with all these scams, they were engaged in all kinds of occupation, exploitation, massacre and plunder, including slave hunting, in the lands of Islam. The experience suggests that the west has always been savage, barbaric and cruel not only during the half century to which we witnessed but for ages. It is obvious that the west based its livelihood, luxury, comfort and reign on occupation, massacre, exploitation and plunder.” With these remarks, he accuses all the Western societies for what happened by generalizing the Western identity in a negative way. Thus, the columnist portrays the Westerners as the enemy by associating them with violence, massacre and exploitation.

2.    In the article published in Dokuz Sütun with the title “Syrian girl steals his dreams and money”, a singular event is covered with a repeated emphasis on the national identity both in the title and in the text. Thus, the article escalates the negative prejudices against Syrians in general and Syrian women in particular.

3.  Bekir Akdeniz, in his column titled “How to gain the victory?”, provokes the reader against Jews and portrays them as enemies with expressions evoking war as we see in the following statements: “Then take the axe of boycott and cut down the trees of Jews” and “If we all choose to weaken them economically, then they would surrender like the Jews in Khaybar and God willing, the azan would be heard in Tel Aviv.”

4.  The article published in Yeni Asya with the title “Armenian tennis mafia brought down in Europe” covers the game-rigging claims in the French Open by highlighting the national identity of the suspects both in the title and in the text. In this way, Armenian identity is associated with crime and negative opinions about Armenians are reinforced.

^{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.}