Ankara-Sana
The Turkish regime not only supported terrorism militarily and logistically, and its occupation of parts of the Syrian territories, but also mobilized its media outlets to promote terrorist organizations and spread hatred against all peoples and countries that reject its policies, as a new Turkish report revealed that the Turkish regime’s media broadcast thousands of hate messages, most of them Syrians and Armenians.
The report issued by the Turkish Hrant Dink Foundation indicated that Turkish media sent more than 5,500 hate messages during the year 2019, and that the largest number of these messages affected Armenians in the first place, and then Syrians in the second degree.
Last year witnessed a series of attacks carried out by Turks against Syrian refugees, some of which amounted to murder, physical abuse, and attacks on homes and shops in several Turkish cities.
The report indicated that it monitored the aforementioned messages in 80 Turkish media outlets, explaining that among the messages of hate and incitement, 108 articles affected different groups in Turkey, while the Armenians affected 803 media materials inciting hatred, which escalated with the commemoration of the Armenian massacre committed by the Ottoman army at the beginning of the last century.
The report pointed out that the Syrians were affected by 760 media items that linked the Turkish economic crisis with their presence, portraying most of the refugees as criminals by linking them to acts of theft and murder.
Observers assert that the Turkish hate messages expose the lie of the Erdogan regime in terms of its claim that it provides protection for the Syrian refugees and exposes its trading in their case, which was nothing but a blackmail card for European countries and a cover for its suspicious plans in the region.
The report classified the content of hate speech into four categories. Exaggeration, attribution and distortion ranked first with 71.80 percent, followed by hostile speech and war by 18.25 percent, insults, insults and humiliation by 7 percent, and codification by 2.25 percent.
It is noteworthy that the “Hrant Dink” Foundation was founded in 2007 by the family of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was assassinated by a Turkish youth in 2007 in front of the main office of the Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper “Agus” in Istanbul.