{"id":54041,"date":"2011-01-13T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T07:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=54041"},"modified":"2011-01-13T11:32:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T07:32:57","slug":"armenians-kurds-most-targeted-groups-in-turkish-press-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/13\/armenians-kurds-most-targeted-groups-in-turkish-press-study.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenians, Kurds Most Targeted Groups in Turkish Press: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hrant Dink Foundation\u2019s \u201cMedia Watch on Hate Speech\u201d project, which brought together journalists, legal experts and civil society representatives for working meetings, seminars and workshops, highlighted hate speech and its widespread use by the Turkish media in a recently released report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHate Crimes and Hate Speech,\u201d published by the foundation, is a report that compiles the presentations of participants in the foundations\u2019 workshops and seminars. The introduction by Rakel Dink, the wife of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, states that they wanted to show what discrimination, racism, hate and anger can lead to and how such actions can make people targets and destroy lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring one of the panels, when I remembered the provoking, hateful articles in the newspapers prior to my husband\u2019s murder, when I thought about the times when those horrible threats were uttered, I also thought in pain and sorrow how my dear \u00c7utag buried his fears and anxieties, trying to lead a normal life, how he tried to show as little as possible to those closest to him, even to me,\u201d she states.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation systematically scanned newspapers and articles that used hostile language The study examined 24 newspapers with high circulations, leaving aside their supplements. The most targeted groups were Turkish citizens of Kurdish and Armenian origin. Greeks, Christians in general, and Jews were also often the subjects of news stories or columns that contained hate speech.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Hrant Dink Foundation\u2019s \u201cMedia Watch on Hate Speech\u201d project highlighted hate speech&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20235,20234,10425,15666,20237,20236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}