Within November 19-25, 2018, three articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech Armenians, Russians, Jews and Greeks as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. Rıfak Açıkgöz, in his poem titled “Let’s just cast the traitors out” represent Armenians and Russians as traitors and labels them as a “threat” against Turkey in the following lines: “The number of traitors increase day by day / Armenians are their father and the Moscow is their uncle / How can these savages know about love of country / Let’s just cast the traitors out”. With this poem, which contains considerably marginalizing remarks like “It is about time to make this decision / We should expel all traitors we catch / and kill them on sight / Let’s just cast the traitors out”, he dangerously provokes the reader against Armenians and Russians.

2. In the article published in Star with the title “Intruder Jews attack, terrorist soliders shoot”, all Jews are held responsible for the incident in question and Jewish identity is labelled as “intruder”. In this way, negative opinions about Jewish identity is reinforced and the perception of enmity is cemented.

3. Seyfullah Çiçek, in his column titled “Unfounded claim”, associates Greeks with violence and provokes the reader against Greeks by regenerating the discourse of enmity from the past as we see in the following sentence: “Inhumane atrocities of Greek giaours like raping our girls and women and stabbing and burning our innocent people are approved. Glorious Turkish army that chased Greeks to the sea is insulted and the Greek army is praised.” Furthermore, the columnist cements the perception of enmity against non-Muslim with the word “giaour” which is used as an expression of hatred and insult against non-Muslims in Turkey.

^{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.}