Within June 1-7, 2020, four articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find three articles that contain hate speech against Greeks, Cypriots and Europeans as well as the analyses written about them below. 

1.  The article published in Milli Gazete with the title “Greeks went wild and attacked a mosque with Molotov” reports the Islamophobic hate crime involving a mosque in Southern Cyprus. Choosing such a title for the story, the incident is attributed to Greek identity itself. Thus, the article reinforces negative judgments about Greek identity and foments the sentiment of enmity concerning this identity.

2.  The article published in Günboyu with the title “Greeks fired at Turkish police boat” covers the alleged attack on Turkish police boat along the Turkish-Greek border. With the title emphasizing the Greek identity, all members of this identity are targeted. Thus, the newspaper foments the perception of threat concerning Greeks by reinforcing the existing prejudices against them.

3.  The article published in Milli Gazete with the title “Racism is in their DNA” covers the story of African-American George Floyd killed by the police in the US and African-American people’s history in the US. With the remarks “Europeans, who wanted to exploit the continent’s both underground treasure and ground sources and also to turn it into a colony after the discovery, slaughtered millions of natives and assimilated the rest through their efforts of ‘civilizing and Christianizing’ them”, “After black citizen George Floyd was suffocated to death by the racist US police officers, anti-racist protests took the country by storm. However, racism and fascism are nothing new in the US. After Europeans’ arrival to the continent following the discovery, the bloody history of genocide, massacre, slavery, and assimilation started” and the title “Turning into bedlam with anti-racist protests, the US has a long history of racism… Racism is in their DNA!”, all Europeans are associated with violence, exploitation, and racism, and negative judgments about this identity are reinforced.

4.  The article published in Diriliş Postası with the title “Fascist Greeks push away, Turkey saves” covers the claim that Greek border protection forces send the refugees back to Turkey. Reporting the incident with such a title, the newspaper insults all members of Greek identity and foments negative sentiments about the 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.}