Within January 21-27, 2019, three articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against non-Muslims, Syrians, Westerners and Serbians as well as the analyses written about them below.1
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M. Fatih Arıtürk, in his column titled “Both Muslims and giaours kill Muslims”, repeatedly uses the word “giaour”, which is used as an expression of hatred and insult against non-Muslims in Turkey as we see in the following sentence: “Islamic world is in big trouble. While Muslims are killing Muslims, giaours are also killing Muslims. First, they turn the peoples of Muslim countries against each other and then they kill them with bombs in order to bring so-called democracy.” In this way, the author labels non-Muslims as “threat” against and “enemies” of Muslims, and provokes the reader against them. |
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In the article published in Takvim with the title, “Turks concern about the life, Syrians about the money”, Syrian identity is emphasized in a negative manner though it is not directly related to the incident as we see in the following sentences: “Syrian who jumped into the water is saved by a boat worker. Young woman accused the man who saved her of stealing her cell phone” and “Syrian woman shocked everyone by accusing the man who saved her of robbery”. In this way, the newspaper incites the prejudices against Syrians that are already had by society. |
3. Sadullah Aydın, in his column titled “I hate you West”, associates Westerners with massacre and incites hatred against them as we see in the following remarks: “You, the monster who disguises as democracy, freedom, human rights, what did you give to humanity? What did you give other than unhappiness, pessimism, all kinds of sexual and moral perversion, suicide, hunger, poverty, selfishness, impiousness?” and “You barbarous West, your civilization is a civilization of blood, the wild Europe! Wails of those free native people, 40 million honourable Indians whom you massacred after occupying their lands, whose cranes you piled like mountains, whose scalps you used as wall decoration, whom you insulted, treated like animals and confined in camps are still breaking hearts”. The author also writes, “I don’t know how to describe you, you are full of crime, murder, atrocity! Aren’t you the one who gave 8,000 innocent and defenceless people including women, children, elderly and sick to Serbian butchers in Srebrenica, Bosnia?” With this remark, he associates Serbians with crime and reinforces prejudices 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.
