Within February 13-19, 2017, five news articles that generate hate speech had been selected for the weekly report. You can find these articles that generate hate speech against Jews, Syrians, Greeks and LGBTIs and the analyses below.1

1.

Diriliş Postası, February 17, 2017

Muhammet Erkam Bülbül, in his column titled “Tricks in the darkness: Moonlight”, writes: “Now, Moonlight will receive an Oscar and hail all the homosexuals in the world, who are hidden and cannot come out. Then thousands of LGBTI members will march in İstiklal Street frantically, disregarding all of our social moral values. (…) The next step will be the animation movies conveying the message that being different and homosexuality are not bad and this message will be planted in the minds of our children. All of a sudden, it will become a trend. We are running toward a destiny which is similar to that of destroyed societies.” With these remarks, the columnist targets LGBTIs as the 'elements corrupting the social order' and reinforces the discrimination to which people who have sexual orientations and identities outside the heteronormative boundaries have been subjected.

2.

Ortadoğu, February 15, 2017

The article published in Ortadoğu with the title of “Greeks' dream of Enosis has no end” and with the title of “Greeks don't give up on Enosis” inside covers the decision of Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus concerning teaching 1950 Enosis referendum in Greek schools. The newspaper associates an action of the parliament with the Greek identity and accuses all Cypriot Greeks.

3.

Korkusuz, February 14, 2017

Korkusuz newspaper's headline story "WHAT KIND OF A FATHER IS THIS" covers the story of a father who made his son beg after causing him to faint. As can be seen in the heading "Unbelievable cruelty of the Syrian father”, the national identity of the person is highlighted several times, though it is not directly related to the incident. The newspaper demonizes Syrians with a narration that abuses readers' emotions.

Covering the same incident, Karadeniz newspaper writes in the article titled “Both are fathers!”: “Syrian father makes his son beg after causing him to faint and another father from Batman humps his son.” The newspaper covers two separate incidents, which have nothing to do with the national identities of the people in question, with statements and images that create a contrast and escalates the division of Syrian-Turkish.
Karadeniz, February 14, 2017

4.

Yeni Akit, February 13, 2017
Mehtap Yılmaz targets Meral Akşener in her column titled “You cannot make Meral Akşener look like the victim!”. She writes: “They are trying to make Meral look like the victim. They have the same habits with Jews, given that they cry 'the president cut off the electricity' though they cut it off themselves.” With these remarks, she uses the Jewish identity as a reason for insulting and creates an unfavorable perception of the Jews. She also writes, “Come on Homo-Fetö, burn them. Cast spells and write amulets” and in this way, she uses homosexuality for insulting a person in a mocking way and plays a part in the marginalization of homosexuals. 

1. Within the scope of the media scanning work focusing on hate speech, all national newspapers and around 500 local newspapers are scanned based on pre-determined keywords (e.g. Traitor, apostate, refugee, Christian, Jewish, separatist, etc.) by 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.