Within November 18-24, 2019, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find two articles that contain hate speech against Afghans, Armenians, Syrians and Jews as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. In the article published in Yeni Konya with the title “The Jews torched 4 vehicles of Palestinians”, the reported incident is attributed to all Jews in the title and the following remark: “Jewish settlers torched 4 vehicles belonging to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and wrote racist slogans on the walls of some houses.” Thus, the article holds all Jews responsible and portrays this identity as an enemy.

2.  The article published in Erzurum Günebakış with the title “Afghans and Syrians cause unemployment” reports the interview with Consumer Legal Remedies Association’s chair. With the use of interviewee’s statements in the title without quotation marks, Afghans and Syrians are associated with unemployment in Turkey. Thus, the article foments negative opinions about Afghan and Syrian identities.

3.  The article published in Kocaeli Bölge Haber with the title “Türkkan pointed out the Armenian plot” reports an event to which İYİ Party deputy Lütfü Türkkan attended. By reporting the event with the title “Türkkan pointed out the Armenian plot”, the newspaper points to Armenians as a potential threat and targets all Armenians.

^{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.}