Within May 1-7, 2017, four news articles that generate hate speech had been selected for the weekly report. You can find these articles that generate hate speech against Kurds, Syrians, Jews and Greeks and the analyses below.¹

1. The article, which was published in Star with the title of “REPROOF WITH T-SHIRT TO INSOLENT GREEKS” on the front page and with “Fener's reproof to Greeks with t-shirt” inside, covers the incident between Olympiakos and Fenerbahçe soccer teams by using the expression of “insolent Greeks”. In this way, this expression insulting Greek identity reinforces the negative feelings about Greeks and incites hatred against Greeks.

2. Yeni Konya newspaper's article titled “Jews demolished 3 houses belonging to Palestinians” covers the alleged demolition of 3 houses belonging to Palestinians by Israeli forces in West Bank, but attributes this action to all Jewish people. In this way, the newspaper escalates existing prejudice and hatred against Jews.

3. Muammer Bağcı, in his column titled “SYRIANS DWELL IN THE FAIR”, writes: “When they are leaving the site to go to their homes in the evening, they leave their garbage behind. If the municipality doesn't clean it up in the night, the place would become a dump site. There is no lie in saying that these people have nothing to do with cleaning” and “Few Syrians who speak Turkish come with their families. They take advantage of our hospitality. They dump tea, pouches and plastic bottles to where they sit.” With the title and these remarks, the columnist demeans Syrians refugees, labels them as “an element of disturbance” and escalates the existing prejudices.

4. Günboyu newspaper, in the article titled “the US protects Kurdish terrorists with 'buffer'”, associates an ethnic identity directly with terrorism and escalates existing prejudices against Kurds.

^{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.}