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Within the scope of that Hrant Dink Foundation's Media Watch on Hate Speech Project between 2009-2019 Hate Speech and Discriminatory Discourse in Media 2017 Report is prepared in the scope of Media Watch on Hate Speech project, includes along with annual results along with quantitative and qualitative analyses of hate speech data for 2017 and two discriminatory discourse reports entitled Giaour Discourse in Print Media and Discrimination against Syrian Refugees in Media: Misinformation and Distortion which focuses on two topics that stood out in 2017.

5296 columns and news articles targeting national, ethnic and religious groups were found in 2017. Since 186 publications generated hate speech against more than one group in different categories, these articles are analyzed in accordance with the number of featured groups/categories (more than once). Thus, the total number of analyzed items reached 5482. In all these analyzed content, 6782 hate speech items against 79 groups had been found.

When a distribution per targeted groups is made, it is seen that Jews have the largest number of hate speech items against them with 1251. Syrians follow them with 1148 items and Armenians has the third place wtih 855 items. Greeks with 597 items and Christians with 543 items ollow them as the groups that are subjected to hate speech.

The report titled Giaour Discourse in Print Media examines how the word ‘giaour’ is used, which has various historical, sociological and linguistic connotations, in a context within which non-Muslim identities are associated with mercilessness, cruelty and enmity. We tried to reveal how the usage of the word ‘giaour’, in daily life and media alike, isolates non-Muslims living in Turkey and put them in a fragile position by alienating them.

The report titled Discrimination against Syrian Refugees in Media: Misinformation and Distortion which is issued in a time when hate speech, discriminatory assumptions and even violent actions against Syrians are on the rise, analyzes how distortion, claims and misinformation in news articles concerning Syrian refugees incite and spread discrimination against those people.

Please see the full report for accessing more detailed statistical data, full list of 6.782 items containing hate speech and example articles and columns.