Within June 17-23, 2019, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Syrians and Greeks as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. The article published in Sözcü with the title “Varosha move annoyed Greeks” covers the claim that Southern Cyprus reacted against the inventory work in Varosha. The diplomatic events between Northern and Southern Cyprus are featured in the title with reference to Greek identity, fomenting the perception of enmity against Greeks.

2. Serkan Koçtürk, in his colum titled “From Serkan Koçtürk’s point of view: How are the policies chosen?” writes: “Internal politics is based on Syrians anyway. They fight, chop off heads, batter, benefit from free care, open luxurious places, but the burden is on my citizens’ shoulder” and “90% of them are bandits who fled from their country”. With these statements, the author reinforces negative prejudices against Syrian refugees and targets them by presenting them as a social and economic “threat”.

3. The article published in Diriliş Postası with the title “Vicious wish of Greeks” covers the claim that Greek social media accounts wrote “I wish the same for him” meaning Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the death Muhammed Mursi. The article associates Greek identity with the incident by using the title “Vicious wish of Greeks”; it escalates enmity against Greeks.

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.