Within March 16-22 2020, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find three articles that contain hate speech against Italians, British French, Jews, Russians, Syrians, and Chinese as well as the analyses written about them below. ¹

1. The article by Osman Zengin targets Jewish, British, Russian, French and Italian identities with racist, insulting and hostile expressions such as “traitor”, “cause of all chaos in the world”, “giaour”, “heretic”, “evil” as we see in the following remarks: “Because treacherous Jews, Brits and Russians, who are the cause of all chaos in the world, rendered the Ottomans helpless by working from both outside and inside, and set out to take Istanbul, which is its heart” and “And there is an interesting thing that you may see when you visit the graves of martyrs and infidels. French graves have crosses, but some of them have broken crosses. When you read the name on them, you see ‘Ali’. It turns out that French, British and Italian heretics deceived people from Muslim countries which they exploited by saying that they are going to fight against infidels. And some of them heard the azan coming from the Ottoman side and realized the wickedness of the infidels. They were either joined the Ottoman side or killed trying. And these are the graves of African Muslims.”

2. In the article titled “China virus and ignorance hand in hand”, the Chinese are held responsible for the pandemic with the use of “China virus” description and affirmation of this description of Donald Trump’s. Prejudices and discrimination against Chinese identity is reinforced.

3. The article reporting that the police found 99 opiate drugs on a suspect covers this incident with the title “Syrian person caught with 99 opiate drugs”. Suspect’s identity is repeatedly highlighted in the article; thus an association between crime and this identity is made.

^{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.}