Within May 13-19, 2019 three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Armenians, Jews and Buddhists as well as the analyses written about them below.¹  

1. In the article published in Yeni Çayeli with the title “Armenians betrayed the Ottomans”, statements by a historian are featured in the title without quotation marks. By regenerating this statement that presents Armenians as “traitor”, the newspaper provokes the reader against Armenians.

2. In the article published in Yeni Konya with the title “Jews’ night raid to al-Aqsa Mosque”, an action of Israeli police is featured in the title by attributing it to all Jews. Thus, the article foments negative opinions about Jewish identity and enmity against Jews.

3. The article published in Yeni Akit with the title “Orphans of Arakan will be scholars” associates Buddhists with violence and massacre with the following sentences: “45 children from Arakan whose fathers were killed by Buddhists in Myanmar are trained to be Islamic scholars in the orphanage opened by the Humanitarian Relief Foundation [İHH]” and “Orphans from Arakan who ran away from the genocide of Buddhist Myanmar and took refuge in Bangladesh want to become scholars after their Islamic education in İHH’s Daru'l İman Orphange”. Thus, the article presents Buddhists as a threat against Muslims, fomenting enmity against 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.