Within May 11-17, 2020, three articles that generate hate speech were selected from print media. You can find three articles that contain hate speech against Armenians, Kurdishs, and Jews as well as the analyses written about them below. 

1.  Covering the historical process leading up to death penalty warrants issued by Atatürk and his friends, Sinan Meydan writes: “Then, former governor of Urfa Nusret Bey was sentenced to forced labor for 15 years because of slanders of lying Armenian witnesses.” By defining the witnesses as “lying Armenians”, he uses a marginalizing and insulting discourse.

Sözcü Gazetesi, 11 Mayıs 2020 2.  Columnist Selcan T. Hamşioğlu writes: “While Armenians and Kurds were killing each other in the east, they couldn’t have come together to set the gallows in Beyazit Square for ‘hanging the Unionists’! What about their religion, faith? They shouldn’t have celebrated the mosque burning Greeks as ‘soldiers of the caliphate army’ and invited them to their own cities.” He generates hate speech by using disrespectful discourse concerning Armenian and Kurdish history and mentioning the act of burning mosques with Greeks.

Türkiye'de Yeniçağ Gazetesi, 11 Mayıs 2020 3.  Yakup Aksungur uses hateful and insulting discourse against Armenian and Jewish identities: “You Armenian and Jewish communities that do not want Turkey to thrive and develop; get your dirty hands off us.”

^{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.}