Within June 18-24, 2018, four articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, Jews and Syrians as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. The article published in Akşam with the title “Greek bullet to refugee boat” holds all Greeks responsible for the incident while covering the intervention to a boat carrying Syrian refugees in Aegean Sea. Thus, the article reinforces negative opinions about Greek identity and perception of enmity.

2. Menderes Yıldırım in his column titled “Great alliance drowned in petty calculations”, regenerates negative opinions about Jews and portrays them as enemies as we see in the following statements: “Although some people calls this Trump Doctrine, it is obvious that tradesman-minded Trump who is a slave of Jewish capital is not capable of such calculations. I think that cunningness of global capitalist Jewish capital is involved in it. Because Jews throw out the baby with the bath water. World War II Germany is the proof showing that Jews, who only care about their world, can do anything to win in this world, including wanting Jewish massacres.”

3. In the article published in Gaziantep Güneş with the title “Syrian murder suspect caught on the border”, national identity of the suspect is highlighted though it is not directly related to the incident. The article escalates a negative perception of Syrians by associating them with crime.

4. Emin Çölaşan, in his column titled "Syrians are there, our young are here”, writes: “30.000 Syrians who were granted citizenship will vote on Sunday. We all know that this number is too high and kept as a secret. There is more; it is not hard to see that all of them will vote for AKP” and “According to official figures, there are 835.000 Syrian children living in Turkey. And every year 70.000 more are born. 300.000 Syrian children cannot receive education, growing up as a trouble for us. There is nothing to be done about them.” With these remarks, he portrays Syrian presence in Turkey as a threat; he labels Syrian identity as pro-government. In this way, the columnist reinforces discriminatory and negative opinions about Syrians and incites hatred against them.>

^{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.}