Within August 19-25, 2019, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find two articles that contain hate speech against Saudi Arabs, LGBTIs and Syrians as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. The article published in Diriliş Postası with the title “Saudi Arabs’ hatred of Turks” reports an article published in a Saudi Arabian newspaper. The article in question is defined as “anti-Turk” and this feeling of enmity is attributed to all Saudi Arabs. Thus, the article labels all Saudi Arabs as an enemy.

2. Erol Ertuğrul, in his column titled “There is no Ummah, but nation”, associates all Syrians with crime through discriminatory generalizations about Syrians as we see in the following remark: “Today, there are covered women with veils and men with beards and thobes called Syrians wandering around in our country. During holidays, they return to their country and stay there for days, and then come back to Turkey. Since they can stay in their country for days, they do not need to stay in our country. And this is not racism. We know that Syrians are involved in prostitution, robbery, plunder and murder incidents in our country. We also know that their population increases rapidly due to their birth rate. In Hatay and Kilis, Syrian population grew larger than Turkish population.” Throughout the column, the author represents Syrian presence in Turkey as a threat and reinforces negative opinions about this identity.

3. In the article published in Aydınlık with the title “How does Soros meddle with countries through LGBT”, LGBTI identities are labeled as a threat against society, LGBTI activism’s struggle against discrimination is discredit and targeted as we see in the following sentences: “The claim that LGBTI associations are funded by Soros to meddle with internal matters of countries is repeatedly discussed” and “Liberal global circles support propagation of drugs and LGBT in order to destroy Georgian society.”

^{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.}