Kaos GL Association launched the 2018 Media Monitoring Report on how LGBTI+s took place in the Turkish media. According to the report, half of the news and written articles published in 2018 fed prejudice against LGBTI+s; discriminative language and hate speech was used extensively.
The research conducted by Ali Erol, Ali Özbaş, Aslı Alpar, Gözde Demirbilek and Yıldız Tar evaluated 2442 contents in national and local media. Basic rights of LGBTI+s were violated, hate speech and/or discriminative speech was used or contents feeding prejudice against LGBTI+s were preferred in 1130 of those contents. 782 news, interviews and columns represented LGBTIs with discriminative language. Hate speech was identified in 383 texts. LGBTI+s or related associations, institutions and organizations were targeted in 123 text with hate speech. 603 texts showed being a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex as if it’s a “crime”.
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http://www.kaosgldernegi.org/resim/yayin/dl/medya_izleme_raporu_2018a.pdf
04.01.2019
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