Advisor
İdil Engindeniz Şahan
Language
Turkish, English
February 2018
146 pages
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In the four-month period covering September-October-November-December 2017, 1.580 columns and news articles and 1.982 hate speech items targeting national, ethnic and religious groups had been found.
In September-December 2017 period, issues like ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, parliamentary election in Germany (September 24), assaults against Syrians in Elmalı (September 23), diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, attack to a church in Texas, USA (November 6), the tension between Turkey and Greece over Kardak, USA’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital (December 16) and New Year and Christmas celebrations contributed to rise of hate speech.
When a distribution per targeted groups is made, it is seen that Jews have the largest number of hate speech items against them with 460 items. Buddhists follow them with 258 items and Syrians has the third place with 243 items. Armenians with 169 items and Christians with 156 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 1.982 items containing hate speech and example articles and columns.
- Report name
- Media Watch on Hate Speech Report September-December 2017
- Original name
- Medyada Nefret Söylemi İzleme Raporu Eylül-Aralık 2017
- Price
- Free
- Pages
- 146
- Width
- 210 mm
- Height
- 295 mm
- Printing
- February 2018
- Language
- English
- Project Team
- Ezgi Kan, Merve Nebioğlu, Şeyma Özkan, Funda Tekin, Gamze Tosun
- Advisor
- İdil Engindeniz Şahan
Media Watch on Hate Speech Project is funded by Friedrich Naumann Foundation, British Embassy Ankara, Open Society Foundation and Istanbul Policy Center. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders.
- About Monitoring Hate Speech in The Media
- Monitoring Hate Speech in National and Local Newspapers in Turkey
- Hate Speech in Print Media
- Findings
- Examples Of Hate Speech
- Buddhist murderers and Westerners applauding the massacre - Bursa Hayat
- Syrian suicide bomber killed in Mersin - Yurt Gazetesi
- Eyewitness told about the Greek atrocity - Yeni Mesaj
- Nuisance of Antalya! - Akdeniz Gerçek
- Syrians cause tax raise - Sözcü
- Christian terrorism / Christian terror - Yeni Akit
- GRUDGE OF BUDDHISTS HAS NO END - Milli Gazete
- Racists blaming the victim - Yeniçağ
- Inglorious Buddhists are not human - Yeni Söz
- The problem is not Zionism but Judaism - Yeni Şafak
- Unforgotten screams!... - Yeni Çağrı
- Other Disadvantaged Groups
- BAN TO HOMOS SHOULD INCLUDE ALL 81 CITIES - Yeni Akit
- Vast majority of LGBTIs have HPV cancer - Yeni Söz
- TRAKESTI - Takvim
- HIT-AND-RUN SYRIAN BRIDE - Güneş
- Items Found In National Press During The Period Between September-December 2017
- Items Found In Local Press During The Period Between September-December 2017
