Within February 25 - March 3, 2019, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find these articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, Jews, and Armenians as well as the analyses written about them below. ¹

1. The newspaper Star’s cover story titled “Serious blow to Greek-loving CHP” represents Greek identity as a threat against Turkey with the title choice. Thus, the newspaper foments negative sentiments about and enmity against Greeks.

2. In the article published in Olay (Van) with the title “I don’t know his name”, Jewish identity is associated with violence as we see in the following sentence: “Maybe he was about to go out for throwing rocks at occupant Jewish tanks and Zionist bulldozers that wreck homes. I don’t know his name, but I know who he is. Many brothers like him chose the road of honorable resistance without surrendering to Jewish atrocity. They risked being broken so that we don’t feel destitute. They made a vow not to leave Jews alone and they kept their word…” The newspaper demonizes Jewish identity with remarks containing elements of hatred and enmity and escalates enmity against them.

3. In the poem published in Vizyon Havadis with the title “Armenian breeds swiped Khojaly”, Armenians are repeatedly associated with violence and massacre as we see in the following passages: “Armenian swiped the Khojaly city / They attacked day and night / Those bastards were like rabid dogs” and “They emboweled people and took the babies out / Thousands of children suffered / Innocent people were killed / Human flesh and blood was everywhere / Armenian breeds swiped Khojaly”. Insulting Armenians, the poem foments enmity against Armenians and dangerously provokes the reader against them. Moreover, negative sentiments about Russians and Jews are also reinforced in the following passages: “Even Russians took part in the massacre / Weapons were put upon bodies /They played with dead babies’ heads” and “The world with Jewish media didn’t hear about it/ Europe-loving folks didn’t see it”.

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.