Within April 29-May 5, 2019, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against the British and Greeks as well as the analyses written about them below. ¹

1. The article published in Akşam with the title “There are 200 people in the torture camp of Greece” reports the claim that Greek security forces are torturing refugees. With the subtitle “Greeks beat, Turks protected”, a moral hierarchy between Greek and Turkish security forces is formed and a negative opinion about Greek identity is produced.

2. Yusuf Karaca, in his column titled “Whose children are the ones who applaud the Greek”, writes about statements made in a speech given in Boğaziçi University. These statements are associated with national identity of the speaker: “Turkey is talking about the British author with Greek descent who insulted Atatürk. This impudent man who called Atatürk ‘demon’ in the speech he gave in Boğaziçi University 4 years ago was applauded by the audience. ‘Sisters with headscarf” applauded him. I mean, they are not foreigners! They are the children of this country! The Greek insulted and the Greeks among us applauded him! He is both British and Greek. A British author with Greek descent! Better call him a British spy with Greek descent.” The columnist also represents Greeks as enemy: “We dumped your ancestors in to the sea, so he is bearing a grudge and telling whatever he wants.” He also reinforces negative opinions about and perception of enmity against British and Greek identities as we see in the following sentence: “The people who are regarded as ‘demon’ by Greeks and the British is a friend of God. If they regard someone ‘friend of God’, be sure that they are the devil itself.”

3. In the article published in Karadeniz'de Son Nokta with the title “Armenian incident, British plot”, the statements of historian Yavuz Bahadırlıoğlu are reported without quotation marks in the titles. By using Bahadırlıoğlu’s remark “Armenian incident, British plot” in the title, the newspaper represents the British as a “threat against” Turkey, provoking the reader 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.