Social Change Association and DurDe Initiative started a campaign named “Hate Crime Law” includes festival against racism, discrimination, and hate crime; and activities on “hate” in media; and international conferences about hate crime. Taşkın Tankut Soykan, from Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, mentioned that new law bill on hate crime will be prepared in the conference and will be presented to parliament.
Asuman İnceoğlu, from Bilgi University, described hate crime as “crime activity due to certain quality such as race, ethnical background, sexual orientation, physical disability, age, social status” and added that “genocide and hate crimes are different concepts, Hate crime includes a social message different than genocide.
Translation: Demet Gülçiçek (Volunteer of Civil Society Development Center)