Advisor
İdil Engindeniz
Language
Turkish, English
July 2018
170 pages
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In the four-month period covering January-February-March-April 2018, 2265 columns and news articles and 2370 hate speech items targeting national, ethnic and religious groups had been found.
In January-April 2018 period, issues like “Operation Olive Branch”, the voting in the Dutch parliament to recognize the Armenian Genocide (February 22); the anniversary of the Khojaly Massacre (February 26); the Kardak tension between Turkey and Greece (February); Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (April 24); the dispute between Turkey and South Cyprus about the natural resource exploration works in the Mediterranean; the tensions between Israel and Palestine; parliamentary and presidential elections on 24 June 2018 contributed to rise of hate speech.
When a distribution per targeted groups is made, it is seen that Armenians have the largest number of hate speech items against them with 671 items. Jews follow them with 427 items and Greeks has the third place with 320 items. Syrian with 274 items and Cypriot Greeks and/or Greeks in Turkey with 226 items follow them as the groups that are subjected to hate speech.
In the section where discourse targeting women and LGBTIs are analyzed, you can find qualitative analyses through a limited number of examples, which are selected with the purpose of exposing and questioning the patriarchal and heteronormative discourse which is rooted in journalism and used intentionally or unintentionally.
Please see the full report for accessing more detailed statistical data, full list of 2370 items containing hate speech and example articles and columns.
- Report name
- Media Watch on Hate Speech Report January-April 2018
- Original name
- Medyada Nefret Söylemi İzleme Raporu Ocak-Nisan 2018
- Price
- Free
- Pages
- 170
- Width
- 210 mm
- Height
- 295 mm
- Printing
- July 2018
- Language
- English
- Project Team
- Ezgi Kan, Merve Nebioğlu, Şeyma Özkan, Funda Tekin, Gamze Tosun
- Advisor
- İdil Engindeniz
Media Watch on Hate Speech Project is funded by Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Consulate General of Sweden, Open Society Foundation and Istanbul Policy Center. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders.
- Introduction
- About Media Watch on Hate Speech Project
- Findings
- Examples of hate speech
- Mehmetçik chases the Greek in the West - Sözcü
- JEWISH TERRORIST CRUSHED PALESTINIAN CHILD - Milli Gazete
- Giaour torment to Cenk Tosun - Bursa'da Meydan
- Shame on anyone who does not give and do! - Yeni Söz
- Exploitation, pillage, rape - Yeni Söz
- SYRIANS GIVE BIRTH ON AND ON / Ten thousand Syrian children in one year!.. - Yeni Dönem
- The Dishonored - Akdeniz'de Yeni Yüzyıl
- CYPRIOT GREEKS LOOK FOR TROUBLE AGAIN - Ortadoğu
- WE SHALL SEE NO GOOD IF WE FORGET KHOJALI - Kayseri Star Haber
- Buddhist serial killers are still hungry for killing - Milat
- JEWISH ATROCITY -1- - Samsun Denge
- Syrian who stepped on the Turkish flag is arrested - Milliyet
- Armenian psychopath wreaked carnage in Canada - Yeni Akit
- Armenians burned 587 Muslims at the mosque and mansion - Diriliş Postası
- Other disadvantaged groups
- Homosexual perversion spreads to TV series - Yeni Akit
- Today is “the day of destroying masculinity” - Yeni Söz
- THE WORDS OF EUROPE’S LACKEY AND THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE (…) - Vizyon Havadis
- TERROR in Çekirge / TRANSVESTITE TERROR - Bursa Olay
- Items found in national press during the period between January- April 2018
- Items found in local press during the period between January-April 2018
