Within November 26 - December 2, 2018, three articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against the British, Buddhists, Armenians and Jews as well as the analyses written about them below.1
The article published in Akşam with the title “British torture to Syrian refugee” reports the attack against a Syrian refugee in an English school. The preferred title holds the British identity responsible for a singular incident and cements prejudice against the British by associating them with violence. |
2.In the article published in Ortadoğu with the title “Escaped from the Buddhists, caught by the police”, all Buddhists are held responsible for the attacks and violence in Myanmar both in the title and in the following sentence: “Rohingya Muslims who wanted to escape from the Buddhist atrocity with boats are prevented from leaving the country by the Myanmar navy.” Thus, the article associates the Buddhists with violence and labels them as a threat against Muslims. |
3.İsmail Zelvi, in his column titled, “We are looking for our lost identity””, labels Armenian and Jewish identities as an element of “threat” in the following sentences: “Even Cem Özdemir, who is Turkish in his ID card but serves for the diaspora in Germany as a secret Armenian, took action for teaching Islam to Muslims with an organization called ‘Secular Islam Initiative’” and “Don’t you think that the religion is our only value that is under attack. A few days ago, a Jewish convert fashion designer of the third kind didn’t like the name of the state.” He also labels Christians as enemies: “Aren’t thousands of enemies of Turks and Islam and seculars declaring that they are commanded by Christians and serving for PKK terrorist organization in the southeast for 40 years?” Thus, the columnist reinforces the existing prejudice against Jews, Armenians and Christians and cement enmity against them. |
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.