Within December July 8-14, 2019, four articles that generate hate speech were selected. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against the Syrians, Jews, and Serbians as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. The newspaper Yeniçağ, in the article titled “Syrians exploited the retirees”, makes the assumption that Syrian refugees in Turkey share the retirees’ income based on the following claim: “The government fed the refugees with the money that should be used for giving a raise to retirees. President Erdoğan said, ‘We spent 37 billion dollars for Syrians.’ Today, 37 billion dollars make 212 billion Turkish liras. With this money, 738 lira raise can be given to 12 million retirees, and this amount could be paid for 2 years.” Using information without any reference, the article labels Syrian refugees’ presence as an “economic threat” and targets this identity.

2. The article published in Yeni Konya with the title “Jews burned olive trees” reports the claim that agricultural lands of Palestinians were burned by a group in the West Bank. With the emphasis on the identity in the title, all Jews are held responsible for the reported event and enmity against Jewish identity is fomented.

3. The article published in Diriliş Postası with the title “Genocide in the middle of Europe! Endless pain: Srebrenica” covers the anniversary of Srebrenica massacre. With the statement “8,372 Bosnians were killed by Serbian murderers” and the subheading “They were handed over to Serbians”, all Serbians are held responsible for the massacre. Thus, the article associates Serbian identity with violence and massacre and reinforces the perception of enmity against Serbians.

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.