Within September 3-9, 2018, three articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Armenians, Jews and Western societies as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. Hayrettin Karaman, in his column titled “Armenian atrocity”, reinforces negative opinions about Jews with the anecdote he tells at the beginning. Then, he associates Armenian identity with atrocity and violence and legitimizes the enmity against Armenians with the remark “Armenians are the same. Though they inflicted great sufferings on Muslim Turkish people, they somewhat manage to keep it as a secret from the world, but they keep the myth of ‘Armenian genocide’ on the agenda and make the world believe so well that they even pass laws for punishing the ones who deny it”, and his quotation from the article titled “Armenian atrocity and genocide”.

2. The article published in Milli Gazete with the title “Freedom ships made available to Jews” covers the reported incident by attributing it to all Jews. In this way, the newspaper reinforces the negative opinions about Jewish identity and cements the perception of enmity.

3. Muhammed Özkılınç, in his column titled “West is a swamp”, writes: “West is a swamp. But it doesn’t only suck bodies up. First of all, it is a swamp that sucks up morality, piety, respect, love, compassion, cooperation and sharing, neighbourly affection, family and home, ties of kinship, in short, all human values… Not only religion and faith, but anything humane got lost in the Western swamp.” With these remarks, he attributes negative characteristic to Western societies that he refers as the “Western swamp”. Throughout the column, he reinforces the existing prejudices by associating Western societies with “immorality”, “lack of human values” and violence.

^{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..}