Within June 8-14, 2020, four articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find three articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, Jews, and Armenians as well as the analyses written about them below. 

1. Reporting the protest against a Lebanese TV show host who insulted Turkey, the newspaper Şok connects the host’s action with his national identity through the following remark “Hosting a show at Lebanese New TV, Neshan Der Haroutian, the host with Armenian origin, insulted Turkey on the last episode of his show.” In this way, the newspaper foments enmity against this identity.

2. Writing about the opposition’s reaction against Hagia Sophia’s reclassification as a mosque in his column in Diriliş Postası, Murat Özer says: “We may talk about what led thousands of Lebanese people took Turkish flags and called out to the Armenian host who insulted Turkey if you’d like.” With the emphasis on Armenian identity, he makes a connection between the action and Armenian identity and uses a discourse that might trigger enmity.

3.  Discussing Hagia Sophia’s reclassification as a mosque and objections to it, Arslan Tekin declares Greeks and those whom he accuses of being their supporters as enemies of Turks and Muslims over Hagia Sophia dispute as we see in the following remark: “We won’t obstinate with Greeks who always dream of reclassifying Hagia Sophia as a church for good and taking it away from Turks altogether by resurrecting ‘Eastern question’ on this land and ‘the single toothed who support them; we won’t try to make them understand the dream of ‘impossibility’ is not ideal, but a ‘disease’, we will lead them to think and understand us.”

4.  Reporting that some settlers cut down 36 olive trees owned by a Palestinian family and attempted to torch some fields, Yeni Konya Gazetesi covers the incident by emphasizing Jewish identity with the title “Jews cut down olive trees” and criminalizes Jewish identity.

^{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.}