Within August 13-19, 2018, three articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Armenians, Syrians and Greeks as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. Orhan Selen in his column “Brotherhood of religion is a lie”, incites hatred between peoples by associating the Greek identity with “atrocity” and “massacre” with the following remark: “Greeks’ atrocity and massacres in Cyprus was not a secret.”

2. Yılmaz Özdil in his column titled “Are we in this together?”, writes: “We said, ‘You get involved in a war that has nothing to do with us, you incite civil war in somebody else’s country, don’t do it, don’t get involved, hundreds of our children have been martyred in Syria, four millions of ignorant Syrians came to us because of you, the borders are like a three-ring circus, you turned the entire country into a refugee boat’ and their response was ‘Go to Israel, you servants of Zionism.’” With these remarks, he insults Syrians by calling them “ignorant” and cements negative opinions about them.

3. O. Kaan Akbaş in his column titled “Turkey united”, reinforces existing prejudices against Armenians by presenting them as “enemies” with the following remark: “Even the Armenians, who are the enemy now, were given the title ‘the loyal nation’ before they rioted, since they were the most loyal nation to the Ottoman Empire.”

^{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.}