Within February 18-24, 2019, four articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, Buddhists, and Armenians as well as the analyses written about them below. ¹

1. The article published in Milat with the title “Greek beating to refugees” covers the findings of police torture to refugees in Greece in the report issued by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. With the title, the reported incidents of violence are attributed to Greek identity and negative opinions about Greeks are fomented.

2. M. Ali Akay, in his column titled, “February is the month of martyrdom and reform”, associates Buddhist, Chinese, Jewish and Christian identities with violence and massacre as we see in the following sentence: “I mean, we want to say this: The blood of our most sacred ones shouldn’t be cheap. We are in a century where Muslim blood is very cheap. Why? Why are non-believers so reckless, while idolater Buddhists and Chinese on one side, Jews and Christians on the other side attacking children of Islamic community like rabid dogs? How can we explain this?” Thus, Akay represents Buddhists, the Chinese, Jews and Christians as a threat against Muslims and foments the perception of enmity against them.

3. The article published in Güneş with the title “Like a Greek deputy” deals with the deputy who reacted against Turkey’s oil exploration works in the Mediterranean Sea. With the titles “Like a Greek deputy” on the front page and “Not Greek, but CHP deputy” inside, Greek identity is represented as a threat against Turkey. Thus, the newspaper foments negative opinions about and enmity against Greeks.

4. Ahmet Aykol, in his column titled “Khojaly is genocide, Armenians are murderers”, writes about events happened in Khojaly on February 26, 1992. With the title and the remark “I am afraid that we, Turks of the world should decide when and where this crime against humanity will end. When we manage to be united, bold and sharp, Armenians will return the occupied lands and apologize from this nation”, he associates Armenian identity with massacre and violence. Thus, he foments the perception of enmity against 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.