In the four-month period of Media Watch on Hate Speech project covering January-February-March-April 2018, 2265 columns and news articles targeting national, ethnic and religious groups had been analyzed. Since 105 publications generated hate speech against more than one group in different categories, these articles are analyzed in accordance with the number of featured groups/categories (more than once). Thus, the total number of analyzed items reached 2370. In all these analyzed content, 3076 hate speech items against 76 groups had been found.
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The graph below shows the distribution of number of hate speech items per week. Click on the related week for accessing examples of hate speech selected from the weekly findings and analyses of those examples:
January 1-7 January 8-14 January 15-21 January 22-28 January 29 - February 4 February 5-11 February 12-18 February 19-25 February 26 - March 4 March 5-11 March 12-18 March 19-25 March 26 - April 1 April 2-8 April 9-15 April 16-22 April 23-29
In January-April 2018,
- Armenians are
- portrayed as enemies and associated with violence and massacre in the items covering the Khojaly Massacre and Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on April 24;
- mentioned with PKK and ASALA and identified with ‘terrorism’;
- targeted in articles and commentaries concerning the dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia;
- associated with violence in the narratives of ‘Turkish War of Independence’;
- labeled as the force behind “hostile” groups and persons.
- Jews are
- identified with violence and portrayed as enemies in articles covering Israeli-Palestinian conflict and tension in Al-Aqsa Mosque;
- targeted by using Jewish identity in a generalized manner instead of using words referring to persons/institutions like “Israeli state”, “Israel” or “Israeli Defense Forces”;
- portrayed as the “hidden” power in “conspiracy theories” and presented as “a threat against Turkey”;
- associated with many persons and institutions that are mentioned with unfavorable references in media; Jewish identity is used an expression of insult.
- Greeks are
- targeted in association with the disputes concerning the trial of the soldiers who went to Greece after the June 15 coup attempt;
- presented as “enemy” because of the Kardak tension;
- portrayed as enemies in reference to past incidents.
- Syrians refugees are
- systematically mentioned with criminal actions like murder, theft and harassment, and thus coded as potential criminals;
- identified with security concerns and ‘terrorism’;
- targeted because of their presence in Turkey in the articles and commentaries covering “Operation Olive Branch”;
- labeled as a “threat” against Turkey’s demographic structure and generally as a source of unease and “tension”.
- Cypriot Greeks and/or Greeks in Turkey are
- targeted in association with the disputes concerning natural gas exploration works in the Mediterranean;
- associated with violence and massacre on the basis of clashes took place in Cyprus in the past.
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