Within June 11-17, 2018, three articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Buddhists, Jews and Syrians as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. Covering a criminal incident, the article published in Antalya Gazipaşa Sahil with the title “Syrian horror again” reinforces the perception of Syrians as a threat by highlighting the frequency of incidents allegedly involving Syrians both in the title and with the following remark: “In Gazipaşa, citizens with Syrian origin continue to cause horror.” The article repeatedly highlights the national identity as we can see in the following statements: “A group of Syrians raided a coffee shop and tried to beat the owner up” and “In Kahyanlar where Syrians cause scenes, a car was turned upside down”. Thus, the article incites negatives prejudices and hatred against Syrians.

2. The article published in Karadeniz with the title “Jews attack Palestinian houses” covers a singular event by attributing it to Jewish identity. Thus, the newspaper leads to incitement of prejudices and enmity against Jews.

3. In the article published in Yeni Akit with the title “The Rohginya afraid of returning to Myanmar”, all Buddhists are associated with violence and genocide as we can see in the following remark: “About 700,000 Rohginya Muslims who were forced to leave due to genocides and rapes of murderer Buddhists are afraid to return to their homes.” Thus, the newspaper portrays Buddhists as enemy by generalizing Buddhist identity in a negative way.

^{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.}