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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.

Starting from 2013, discriminatory discourse thematic subjects are included in this systematic media watch on hate speech. A detailed discourse analysis is carried out by focusing on a selected subject within the related four-month period and determining a particular research method for each subject. These analyses aims to reveal the discriminatory discourse, which is featured more implicitly compared to hate speech.
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.