Hate case

Xanthi 2022: A Politician Threatened in a Live Broadcast

14.09.2024  |  Greece  |  Submitted by: Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF)

 

Country                                                Xanthi, Greece  

Year                                                       2022

Affected group/minority              Turkish community in Western Thrace

Perpetrator                                       Unknown person

Type of case                                       Hate speech

Type of act                                          Verbal attack

Media:                                                 Traditional media (printed, radio, TV)

Reactions:                                          The members and representatives of civil society organisations of the Turkish

                                                             community in Western Thrace widely condemned the hate speech towards

                                                             Zeybek whilst the authorities remained mute.

 

Brief description:                            

SYRIZA Deputy Hüseyin Zeybek was threatened with death by a viewer who was connected by phone to the ‘‘Anihti Grami (Open Line)’’ programme in a live broadcast on the local Next TV from Xanthi. The person accused Zeybek of being a ‘‘spy of the Turks’’ and said that he would ‘‘kill him if war broke out between Türkiye and Greece’’.

In a statement on his social media account, Deputy Hüseyin Zeybek condemned the person who threatened him and Panos Papadopoulos, the journalist who presented the programme. Zeybek stated that the presenter continued the conversation with the citizen instead of condemning his statements that receiving threats against his life on live television exceeded all boundaries and that the primary role of the media was to defend democracy, not hatred.

 

More information on the case can be obtained through the links:

https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/t%C3%BCrkiye-demands-greece-investigate-death-threat-against-greek-turkish-mp-60831

https://avim.org.tr/en/Bulten/DEATH-THREAT-TO-XANTHI-TURKISH-DEPUTY-ON-LIVE-BROADCAST

https://www.milletnews.com/western-thrace/abttf-we-strongly-condemn-the-public-death-threat-of-our-deputy-huseyin-zeybek

https://www.milletnews.com/western-thrace/advisory-board-condemns-the-death-threat-of-deputy-huseyin-zeybek 

 

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