Within February 24 - March 1, 2020, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find three articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, Hindus, Christians, and Kurds as well as the analyses written about them below.¹

1. The article published in Milliyet with the title “Migrants entered the EU” reports migrants’ passing to Greece and Europe through Maritsa River and Greek Security Forces’ violent intervention. By summarizing the story as “Thousands of refugees set foot on European land despite Greek torment”, actions of Greek security forces and state is defined as “Greek torment” and thus Greek identity is held responsible for violence against migrants.

2. In the article published in Akşam with the title “He may be friends with Mr. Kemal, not with me”, President Erdoğan’s statements on attacks to Muslims in India are used in the title as “Hindus are massacring Muslims”. Thus, Hindu identity is held responsible for the attacks.

3. Bekir Doğan, in his column titled “Chasing the agenda”, compares suffering of people on the basis of religious identities and reinforces enmity against Christian identity while he is mentioning Syrian civil war: “Listen, Esad and Russian forces killed 3 million Muslims in Syria in 9 years and displaced 12 Muslim Syrians, but not a single Christian is harmed so far.”

4. Pakize Gürel, in her column titled “Truth be told”, uses Armenian identity directly as an element of insult: “My thoughts are reflected in the song titled ‘I am alone, founding father’, which was sung by a sacked special operation officer: ‘We lost our track in the pursuit of the six arrows, wake up, founding father! They are all Armenians and frauds.” She also writes: “Bragging about trampling Turkish nationalism with the belief that pan-Islamism will bring unity, saying one nation but abstaining from saying Turkish nation-Turkish state, bragging about ‘peace process’, which is actually k*rds betrayal process.” In this way, she sees the word Kurd as an insult and censors the word due to racist motives.

^{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.}