Within April 22-28, 2019, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against homosexuals, Syrians, Greeks and Armenians as well as the analyses written about them below. ¹

1. The article published in Yeni Asır with the title “They spoke like Armenians” reports HDP deputies’ statements on April 24. In the title, Armenian identity is used as a source of threat; thus existing prejudices against Armenians are fomented.

2. Yılmaz Özdil, in his column titled “Tweet-punch”, foments negative opinions about Greeks and Syrians: “You gave our islands in the Aegean to Greeks, you let 5 million Syrians dance in Taksiö on the New Year’s Eve, you let 700,000 Syrians who can fight in a war fool around in Florya beach, you let them smoke water pipe and also make our people pay for it, you send the poor kids of this country to Syria to fight, you make paid military service permanent letting the rich life and the poor die, you spend 40 billion dollars for Syrians in Turkey while seizing prosthetics of our veterans…” The columnist targets Syrian refugees by portraying them as a social and economic “threat”.

3. The article published in Milli Gazete with the title “Immorality cannot be spread” reports Istanbul Chamber of Medicine’s conference titled “Different Faces of Sexuality”. The statement “Istanbul Chamber of Medicine which is supposed to provide health care service to society will talk about same sex intercourse in its panel titled ‘Different Faces of Sexuality’. What is Istanbul Chamber of Medicine trying to do? It is obvious that the war is declared against the national and moral values of this society with this program aiming to seduce humanity and legitimize immorality” is reported by affirming and regenerating it. The article represents homosexuals as “immoral” and labels them as a “threat” against society due to their sexual orientation.

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.