Within April 3-9, 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, Armenians, Christians, non-Muslims, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians and Greeks and the analyses below.¹

1. Ali Aydoğan, in his column titled “ARE ARMENIANS AND JEWS HONEST?”, writes: “Damn your mind that praises the Jews! Damn your tongue that tells about the honesty of Armenian shopkeepers, damn your conscience and dignity... Damn you... Armenians are honest, Turks are fraud! Jews are right, Muslims are liars, is that so?” With these remarks that repeated throughout the column, the author defames Jews and Armenians, implying that they are fraud and liar. He also writes, “We have to stop praising Christians and Jews, who are real cannibals feeding on Muslim flesh.” Thus, he associates Jews and Christians with violence and labels them as enemies, provoking the readers against them.

2. The article published in Diriliş Postası is titled as “Giaours lost their tongue”. By using the word “giaour”, which is used as a word denoting hatred and insult against non-Muslim identities in Turkey, the newspaper reinforces the perception of enmity against them.

3. The article featured in Eskişehir İstikbal with the title of “Refugees broke the peace in Huzur” on the front page and inside covers the statements of the representative of Huzur Neighborhood in Eskişehir. The newspaper regenerates and affirms the statements of the representative that targets Afghan, Syrian and Iraqi refugees with the title and the summary that reads “Saying that the neighborhood is full of foreigners, representative of the neighborhood Özaydın stated, 'Some problem emerges everyday. We are worried.' The newspaper presents refugees as a source of unrest and incites discrimination and xenophobia.

4. The article featured in Star with the title of “HE COMPARED THE YES VOTERS TO GREEKS” on the front page and with the title of “CHP WENT CRAZY WITH THE FEAR OF YES”, criticizes CHP MP Hüsnü Bozkurt because he said “If majority votes yes on April 16, we would go to Samsun and chase all of you toward the sea in Izmir.” Though the newspaper criticizes Bozkurt's statements reinforcing the old discourse of enmity against Greeks, it regenerates the same discourse. Thus, the newspaper portrays Greeks as enemies by using the Greek identity as a reason for hatred.

5. The article featured in Erzurum Günebakış with the title of “Cöhce told about the genocide carried out by Armenians” on the front page and inside reports the talks that were given at the conference titled “31 March 1918 Genocide Day of Azerbaijani Turks”. The newspaper associates Armenian identity with violence and escalates enmity between peoples.

^{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.}