Within July 30 - August 5, 2018, three articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Germans, Jews, Christians, Armenians, Buddhists and Greeks as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. Muhammed Gömük in his column titled“Terms and psychological warfare”, quotes a person claiming that “there is a chaos of terms directing psychological judgments” against Islam and mentions some terms that he wants to be used more commonly based on that person’s suggestion “not defence but attack against psychological assault.” Gömük suggests terms like “Christianist, Christianist advocacy , Christian terrorism, Christian radicals, Jewists, Jewishism, Jewish terrorism, Jewish radicals, Buddhist radicals, Armenianists, Armenianism, Armenian terrorism, Greekist, Greekism, Greek terrorism” and associates Christian, Jewish, Armenian, Buddhist and Greek identities with terrorism and violence with the descriptions that he provides for these terms. In this way, he reinforces negative opinions about Christians, Jews, Armenians, Buddhists and Greeks and enmity against those identities.

2. The article published in Türkiye with the title “Germany’s Jewish raid to the house of a gastarbeiter” reports the detention of a person who made anti-Semitic statements as “Jewish raid”. Furthermore, the expression “Justice of Hans” above the title generates a negative opinion about German identity. In this way, the newspaper reinforces negatives opinions about German identity and cements the perception of enmity against Jews and Germans.

3. The newspaper Star in the article titled “Look at the terrorist-loving Greeks”, covers the story of the Greek officials who saved the soldiers involved in the coup attempt in Turkey from a fire in Greece by targeting Greek identity in the title. In this way, the newspaper reinforces negative opinions about and enmity against Greeks, by associating Greek identity with terrorism.

^{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.}