Yeni Akit

"I think the place you're working at isn't a newspaper. I despise answering your media outlet's question."

- Ekrem İmamoğlu responses Yeni Akit reporter's question.

Yeni Akit ("New agreement" in English and stylized as akit) is a Turkish controversial Islamic conservative newspaper. According to a report published in 2019 by Hrant Dink Foundation, Yeni Akit is the top Turkish newspaper resorting to hate speech.

Bu Akit Neden İmzalanmamalı (Why This Agreement Shouldn't Be Signed)

 * 1) Yeni Akit is notorious for being racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and more. According to Hrant Dink Foundation's Hate Speech and Discriminatory Discourse in Media 2019 Report, Yeni Akit is top Turkish newspaper resorting to hate speech with 263 entries.
 * 2) In July 2014, Yeni Akit used a picture of Adolf Hitler as the centerpiece for its daily word game, and the phrase "senİ Aniyoruz" ("We long for you" in English) as the answer of the puzzle.
 * 3) They refer to LGBT people as "perverts" or "deviants" in most of their entries.
 * 4) *In the aftermath of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting the newspaper published a headline "DEATH COUNT RAISED TO 50 AT THE BAR THAT HOMOSEXUAL DEVIANTS GOES TO!".
 * 5) They have also resorted hate speech to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Founder of Turkey.They even gone far by posting photoshopped face of Atatürk.
 * 6) *They have also edited eyes of the logo of Sözcü, a newspaper in Turkey. But the eyes they edited are the eyes of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
 * 7) They have denied Sivas Massacre and they refer fugitives as "victims".
 * 8) *They also spread hoaxes about Sivas Massacre such as those who were killed what shot by guns.
 * 9) During the 2013-2014 Gezi protests, they have published many disinformative articles.
 * 10) They made supermarkets in Turkey such as Migros and CarrefourSA as scapegoats for selling sacrificals for Eid Al-Adha while they are selling alcohol and pork.
 * 11) *As a reference for WTASBS#6, they also framed Migros as helping Gezi Protests.
 * 12) They have blurred bare arms and legs of women.
 * 13) They are also misogynist. They thinks that Law 6284 of Turkey "breaks up families". However, that law protects family and prevents violence against women.
 * 14) They blamed murder of Özgecan Arslan to western culture.
 * 15) When four women in Turkey have commited suicide due to poverty, Yeni Akit blamed their suicide reason to Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion book which was found in their library.
 * 16) They claim foreign intellingence services using ripped jeans for communication.
 * 17) They also support child marriage, which is child abuse. They even called those who are against child marriage as "anti-family".
 * 18) Their TV channel called Akit TV is terrible.

Ayrıca bakınız (See also)

 * Yeni Akit on Turkish Wikipedia