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Welcome to our webpage “Shared Values – A Shared Future”, maintained by Bahçeşehir University. Dedicated to the goal of finding out new ways towards how to prevent extremism, this webpage is a mutual ground where discussions are held on the question of how to develop a mutual understanding and where opinions on it are spoken out.
Within this context, we scrutinize where and how extremists find their likeminds, to what extent their discourse is effective, and what the causes of extremism are.
With this webpage we hope to make it possible for you to find information on the seminars and meetings to be held within the scope of our project. General information on the subject, updated news, and many other materials will be available through these pages.
A workshop was held in Bahçeşehir University Senate Hall on February 20, 2009, titled ‘Hate Speech and the Media in Turkey’.Fourteen experts from various universities and non-governmental organizations attended the workshop, in which a comprehensive open discussion was held on the Turkish national media in terms of hate speech and the media. Questions as what is hate? What is the relationship between hate and nationalism? What is the way hate speech comes into being and in what ways we find it in the media? were among the questions we tried to analyze. The role of newspapers, which occupy an important place in the daily media, in the formation of hate speech was the main axis of our free discussion, and it also evaluated the place of hate speech in other channels of the media such as TV’s and the internet, looking into the way they publish daily news. Political, social, ethical, and juridical aspects of “hate speech and the media” have been discussed by participants from different fields. For proceedings of the meeting you can visit this page
Within the scope of “The Extremism Project”, a workshop titled “Hate Speech and the Media in Turkey” was held in the Senate Hall of Bahçeşehir University on February 20, 2009. Fourteen experts from various universities and non-governmental organizations attended the workshop. As a part of the workshop, a comprehensive open discussion was held on the Turkish national media in terms of hate speech and the media. You can find the details of this workshop on this page.
Ms Jacqui Smith, Secretary of Home Affairs of UK, visited our university in connection with our project. She answered to questions asked by students and gave a speech to and conversed with the guests on the subject. Ms Smith emphasized the role of women in fighting extremism. You can find the details of this visit on this page.
You can find on this page the details and the full text of the discussion titled “Extremism in the World and in Turkey”, held at Bahçeşehir University on June 19, 2009, and participated byDeniz Ülke Arıboğan, Bekir Karlığa, Nilüfer Narlı, Ali Yaman, Aydın Topaloğlu, Deniz Saporta, Joti Kohli, Cemal Uşak and Mustafa Akyol.
We are also going to render our forums accessible for all our participants, aiming to achieve results as comprehensive as possible and oriented to expanding the mutual ground and to encouraging opinion diversity.
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