Within August 27 - September 2, 2018, three articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Syrians, non-Muslims and Jews as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. In the article published in Bursa Şehir with the title “Jewish occupation on Palestinian lands” Jewish identity is held responsible for what is happening with generalizing remarks. In this way, the newspaper reinforces prejudices and enmity against Jews.

2. Yüksel Ercan in his column titled “Friends with giaours”, writes: “Today, maybe we cannot easily abandon our old habits and consumption; for 40-50 years, we have never abstained from borrowing or taking loans from the imperialist powers we called ‘giaour’ any time we are in trouble and we came to realize that paying back these enormous amounts of debts is a new ‘war of independence’” and “Now that it is obvious that other countries will never let us be, they will do anything they can to erase us from history, to remove us from Anatolia to which we try to hold on, we have to keep in mind that you cannot be ‘friends with giaours’”. With these remarks, he cements the perception of enmity against non-Muslims by using the word “giaour”, which is used as an expression of hatred and insult against non-Muslims in Turkey.

3. In the article published in Milat with the title “Syrian terrorist caught in Kayseri”, Syrian identity is associated with “terrorism” and violence. In this way, the newspaper cements negative opinions about Syrians and reinforces the perception of enmity.

^{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.}