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    DINK FOUNDATION HIGHLIGHTS RACISM, DISCRIMINATION IN MEDIA

    13:25 23.08.13

    Religious, ethnic minorities, women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
    Transgender (LGBT) groups are frequently targeted by the Turkish
    media as objects of hate speech, discrimination and even racism,
    Today's Zaman says, citing a report by the Hrant Dink Foundation.

    The report, titled "Hate Speech in the Media" released on Thursday,
    includes statistics and analyses on the general media discourse
    regarding minorities and other disadvantaged groups. Compiled on
    data gathered by monitoring the press in the first four months of
    this year, one segment of the report focuses exclusively on media
    reports regarding a visit by members of the pro-Kurdish People's
    Democratic Congress (HDK) group to the Black Sea. The HDK group,
    which includes members of parliament from the Peace and Democracy Party
    (BDP), visited the Black Sea region as part of the ongoing negotiation
    process between the government and the terrorist Kurdistan Workers'
    Party (PKK) to show their support for peace.

    The foundation found an increase in the number of reports targeting
    minorities and disadvantaged groups in the January-March period,
    in comparison with the findings of previous studies by the foundation.

    However, the number of groups that are targeted by stories that can
    be classified as using hate speech or discriminatory language --
    and sometimes-outright insults -- has decreased in comparison with
    the same period of 2012.

    Hate speech, the report said, has the highest occurrence rate in the
    national media and columnists are the most frequent culprits. The
    most frequently targeted groups are Armenians, Jews and Christians,
    in that order and intensity. Turkey's Greek and Kurdish communities
    were the two other groups that were discriminated against, although
    as far as figures go, the amount of stories against these two groups
    is much lower than the other three.

    In this period, there was an increase in the number of stories deemed
    to carry anti-hate speech against Kurds, particularly those stories on
    the HDK/BDP group's visit to the Black Sea region, the anniversary of
    the Khojali massacre of 1992 [in which the Armenian army killed more
    than 613 Azerbaijani civilians], the death of three women affiliated
    with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Paris in February,
    and the French military campaign in Mali.

    The report also detected a large number of stories that include
    hate speech targeting women and LGBT individuals. Most examples in
    this category were based on giving detailed physical descriptions
    of the women who are the subject of the news story and most of
    these stories concerned sex workers. Most stories about transgender
    individuals associated these persons with crime and the uses of the
    word "transvestite" was meant to sound offensive, the report said.

    Armenian News - Tert.am


    From: Baghdasarian
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