Analyst

Ceren Sözeri

Language

Turkish

August 2009
45 Pages
Free

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The Hrant Dink Foundation has been conducting the “Media Watch on Hate Speech” since 2009. This study was launched with the purpose of drawing attention to discriminatory language against ethnic and religious identities, sexist and homophobic discourse and news containing hate speech in order toraise public awareness against such publications and to reduce the use of hate speech in media. The project aims to generate knowledge on the concept of “hate speech”, create a platform for discussing the methods for combating discriminatory and racist discourse and promote the use of a more respectful and informed language in terms of human rights and minorities.

This study determines news articles and columns containing discriminatory, marginalizing and targeting discourse by scanning national and local press . Every four months, a report containing quantitative and qualitative analyses on the hate speech items that are found in the related period is issued.

News articles determined as featuring hate speech are categorized based on the characteristics of the adopted discourse. The categories of hateful discourse, which are determined on the basis of international scientific studies and in consideration of the country-specific lingual and cultural differences.

Report Name
Media Watch on Hate Speech April - July 2009
Original report Name
Medyada Nefret Söylemi İzleme Raporu Nisan - Temmuz 2009
Price
Free
Pages
45
Width
210 mm
Height
295 mm
Printing
August 2009
Language
Turkish
Project Team
Özlem Dalkıran, Nuran Gelişli, Rojdan Alpkaya
Analyst

Ceren Sözeri

Media Watch on Hate Speech Project is funded by The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), Global Dialogue and Friedrich Naumann Foundation. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders.