Within November 4-10, 2019, two articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find two articles that contain hate speech against Armenians, Kurds, Greeks and Jews as well as the analyses written about them below.1


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Kayseri Yenidoğan, 8 November 2019

Hüseyin Döngel, in his column titled “Survival of Turkey -2”, presents Armenians, Jews, Kurds and Greeks as parties to “conspiracy theories” that he mentions throughout the column as we see in the following remark: “Today, Israel’s Jewish lobbies in the US and European countries were founded by the alliance of Jews, Kurds, Armenians and Greeks. Most of the radio and TV channels and print media in the US are controlled by Jewish families.” Thus, the columnist foments negative opinions about these identities and targets them.


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Milli Gazete, 4 November 2019

The article published in Milli Gazete with the title “Palestinian farmers are afraid of Jewish plunderassociates Jews with “plunder” and reinforces existing prejudices and Jews with the title and the following remarks: “Palestinian officials are afraid of Jewish occupation and plunder during olive harvest every year”, “Hundreds of olive trees are waiting to be harvested by the their owners before Jewish occupants confiscate 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.