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    TURKISH JOURNALISTS DISCUSS HATE SPEECH IN MEDIA

    Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
    July 30 2013

    ISTANBUL- Hurriyet Daily News

    Discrimination and hate speech are commoved in the Turkish media and
    the media's support is needed to prevent it, Turkish Journalists'
    Association (TGC) head Turgay Olcayto has said.

    Speaking at a panel discussion on the subject, which was organized
    jointly by the TGC and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Olcayto stressed
    the importance of language that did not marginalize anyone in society.

    Prof. Yasemin Ä°nceoglu, lecturer at Istanbul's Galatasaray University,
    said the current media situation was desperate, explaining that more
    than 100,000 news pieces had been examined on the 2007 assassinated
    Armenian-origin journalist Hrank Dink.

    "There is a dominant ideology and 'we' description. The ones who
    rest outside this description are perceived as the other," said
    Ä°nceoglu, adding that there was also homophobia, anti-Semitism,
    and anti-Alevism in the language of the press, as well as general
    opposition to non-Muslims.

    Dink example

    Hrant Dink, who was an Armenian with Turkish nationality, was
    assassinated on Jan. 19, 2007 in front of the Istanbul office of the
    Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, of which he was the editor-in-chief.

    The head of the communication faculty at BahceÅ~_ehir University, Prof.

    Orhan Tekelioglu, also referred to the well-known Turkish TV series The
    Magnificent Century, which he said repeatedly emphasized characters'
    "otherness."

    "It is being stressed every time that Pargalı İbrahim Pasha is a
    Greek of Turkish nationality; Hurrem's accent is intentionally not
    being corrected. Their otherness is being consciously punctuated,"
    said Tekelioglu.

    The Magnificent Century is set during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan
    Suleyman the Magnificent and is focused mostly on what happened in
    the harem. While Pargalı Ä°brahim Pasha, who was a "devÅ~_irme"
    picked up from a non-Muslim family and raised as a Muslim to be used
    in state affairs, was the grand vizier of Suleyman, Hurrem, who was
    of Ukrainian origin but who converted to Islam once she was chosen
    for the imperial harem, was the legal wife of Suleyman and the mother
    of five of his children.

    Lawyer Nazan Moroglu told the Hurriyet Daily News after the panel
    discussion that discrimination against women in Turkey had increased
    in the recent years. Moroglu said the women who were detained during
    the Gezi Park protests had been harassed and were unable to make
    their voice heard.

    "We could bring up these topics to the TV's agenda just a few years
    ago but now all stations are blocked, we cannot make our voices heard,"
    said Moroglu.

    July/30/2013


    From: Baghdasarian
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