Within November 11-17, 2019 two articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Americans, Arabs, Europeans, Westerners, Armenians, Russians and Greeks as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. The article published in Karadeniz with the title “Here is that Russian” 1 reports Russian foreign minister’s visit to the Genocide Memorial in Armenia. With the word play in the title, the newspaper insults the person in question due to his national identity.

2.  Ali Öncü, in his column titled “It’s hard to be a Turk”, associates Europeans and Americans with exploitation and violence in the following sentence: “Europeans and Americans do not love Turks as much as they love terrorists. We have a bad reputation as the barbaric. Are we the ones who are barbaric? Maybe they are, since they killed and exploited millions of Muslims! Europeans do not love us. Americans do not love us. Greeks do not love us, Armenians do not love us. Arabs do not love us.” He also labels Westerners, Europeans, Americans, Russians, Greeks, Armenians and Arabs as enemies: “Westerners agree with the US. Their prime goal is to drive Turks away back to where we came from.”

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.